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Critics point to the selection of Herman Van Rompuy and Catherine Ashton as Europe's President and Foreign Minister as symbolic of a lack of vision. Van Rompuy, a former Belgian Prime Minister, is known for his ability to balance local sensitivities - no small feat in Belgium - and cajole opposing camps towards a consensus. Useful attributes, no doubt, but hardly the ones needed to make the E.U. count on the international stage. Ashton, a former British minister and European trade commissioner, has little experience in foreign affairs. "Van Rompuy and Ashton give the impression of being chosen for their limits...
...early days for the new team, of course. Van Rompuy and Ashton could surprise their detractors. "We should be ambitious," Ashton told TIME in late January. But for all that ambition, Europe is no closer than it ever was to answering Henry Kissinger's famous question: "Who do I call when I want to call Europe?" So what explains the gap between Europe's stated ambition in foreign policy and its performance? And how can that gap be closed? (Read an interview with Catherine Ashton...
After over a year since Family Van had to scale back on services and staff due to funding shortages, Bennet says that The Family Van was able to hire back some of its staff to full-time positions this January...
With a reduced operating budget of roughly $480,000, The Family Van is hoping to regain solid financial footing to offer its original range of services and possibly more, Bennet says...
Ruby Hubbert, a Roxbury resident and a regular, stresses that she would be upset to see Family Van cut back on curbside visits...