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EU Posted July 14, 2009 @ 1:43 pm In Alphabet Soup,Letters | No Comments The EU (“European Union”) is the economic and political union of 27-member (as of 2009) countries from Europe. |
“Put it like this: Obama's "quiet diplomacy" has temporarily conciliated the Turks while perhaps permanently alienating the French and has made it more, rather than less, likely that the American goal of Turkish EU membership will now never be reached. And this is the administration that staked so much on the idea of renewing our credit on the other side of the Atlantic. This evidently can't be done by sweetness alone.”
—Christopher Hitchens, “Ankara Shows Its Hand: Turkey's scheming at the Strasbourg summit proves it doesn't belong in the European Union,” Slate, 20 Apr 09.
"Most European programs meant to promote youth employment are still in their early stages and could take months or even years to implement. It was only a month ago, for example, that the European Commission recommended that the 27 EU member states create 5 million apprenticeships to help young workers "ride out the storm" and to train malleable young people for growing job sectors, such as green energy."
—Annie Lowry, "Europe's New Lost Generation: Young Europeans are facing the worst job market in years -- and that has some scary implications now and down the road," Foreign Policy, 13 Jul 09.
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