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...TIME's Pictures of the Week...
...exceeds 12.7% of GDP) in an "effective and determined manner." Athens now faces stringent oversight as it attempts to balance its finances: after years of receiving dodgy statistics from the Greek authorities, the E.U. is insisting on a direct role in monitoring the nation's recovery plan. And next week, E.U. finance ministers are expected to formally demand the steps Greece needs to take to reduce its deficit by 4% this year. (See more about the E.U.'s bailout of Greece...
...backdrop of the media circus outside the Port-au-Prince courthouse, where these Americans have been ushered to and fro for the past week, there are tents. These tents belong to women like 56-year-old Marie-Claude Jean, who lives on the cement driveway of the courthouse in hopes of getting some aid. She has observed the grandiose statements of lawyers and judges every day and says that, from what she can tell, the Americans should be freed based on good intentions. "When you take a child out of Haiti, they have more opportunities," says Jean...
...important question in the case remains: What will happen to the 33 children, who are currently residing in an orphanage outside the capital? Laurentius Lelly, 27, gave his two daughters, ages 4 and 6, to the American missionaries and says he last saw them at the S.O.S. orphanage last week. "When we visited they were in class, and that made me very happy," says Lelly, adding that he chose to send his daughters with the missionaries so they could have more opportunities. "If there was still a possibility for them to go abroad legally, with the government and the Ministry...
Lelly and other parents from the mountain village of Callebas met with a judge earlier this week and answered questions about the circumstances behind the transfer. Lelly says there was no money exchanged and he gave his children willfully. He adds that if he had the means to take care of the children, he'd certainly fight for their custody. But he says he has yet to hear from the Haitian government about his children's future...