Word: unionizers
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That fact explains the effort under way to drive consumers toward a better bulb: compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs), which last 10 times as longer as their incandescent counterparts while consuming less than one-third the electricity. The European Union began phasing out incandescents on Sept. 1, banning stores from buying new stock. At up to $10 each, CFLs are more expensive, but experts say they pay for themselves in energy savings within just a few months. The E.U. is even touting the switch as an economic stimulus; experts estimate that the swap to CFLs will save customers €5 billion...
...many as 1 million people in the streets of Madrid to oppose plans by the country's center-left government to loosen abortion laws (allowing 16-year-old females, for example, to terminate their pregnancies without parental consent). And on Tuesday, in a Vatican meeting with the new European Union envoy to the Holy See, Benedict chided those who deny the "Christian roots" of Europe. Said the Pope: "Europe will not truly be herself if she cannot keep the originality that made her great. When the church reminds Europe of its Christian roots, it is not looking for special status...
...Irish question - the 21st century version of it, not the one that so vexed Victorian statesmen - has been settled. Ireland's Oct. 2 referendum vote in favor of the Lisbon Treaty and a new constitutional settlement for the European Union was decisive. It seems highly likely that Poland and the Czech Republic, the two holdouts in the process of ratifying the new treaty, will fall into line soon, however much it may pain Czech President Vaclav Klaus, the Saint-Just of Euroskepticism, to sign the document. By the beginning of next year, new institutional arrangements for the E.U. will...
...there. Much is going to depend on personnel. If the new President of the E.U. is a person of international stature (as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the front-runner for the post, plainly is), able to project Europe's view while convincing the smaller members of the union that their voices count, then Europe is going to be a bigger player internationally. In time, this could be to the enormous advantage of the U.S., which has neither the will nor the wallet to tackle every crisis on its own, and would love the wholehearted partnership of an engaged...
...Tsvangirai's move on Oct. 16 was prompted by the re-arrest of a prominent member of his party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), which continues to suffer harassment despite the power-sharing agreement. Tsvangirai said it was plain that Mugabe's party, the Zimbabwean African National Union (ZANU-PF), had no intention of relinquishing control and forming a functioning government. "It is our right to disengage from a dishonest and unreliable partner," Tsvangirai said in Harare. "We have papered over the cracks and have sought to persuade the whole world in the last eight months that everything...