Food is bought every other day from the nearby farmers' market on Union Square, and put in the hamper without wrapping.
Data showed the European Union market for new passenger cars in April expanded for the first time since September 2011.
When American companies dominated the car market, the union negotiated fat contracts that lifted its members into the middle class.
Until now, Germany had been a key opponent to the creation of a large eurobond market allowing European Union member states to refinance their debt themselves directly via the issue of bonds guaranteed by the EU, or at least by the eurozone itself.
The EU needs either more political union if it wants to keep its single market, or less economic union if it is unable to achieve political integration.
Joe Manimbo, market analyst at Western Union Business Solutions, said the numbers were "surprisingly positive".
Having successfully adopted a single market, the European Union is now taking on a single currency.
As a result of China, India and the former Soviet Union embracing market capitalism, the global labour force has doubled in size.
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The entry of China, India and the former Soviet Union into market capitalism has, in effect, doubled the world supply of workers, from 1.5 billion to 3 billion.
What it would actually require is both the complete changing of the entire European union Single Market Project and also the rewriting of every single double taxation treaty between every single nation.
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But as David Autor, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, points out in a new paper on labour market polarisation, fading union power has been more the effect than the cause of occupational shifts.
Two decades ago he exploited the shadowy system of gray-market capitalism in the Soviet Union.
The markets could also be dramatically altered by a draft European Union directive on market abuse.
The company now operates in more than 160 countries, with a leading market share in the European Union.
For free-market liberals, the enlarged union's size and diversity is itself an advantage.
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Mr Schroeder urged European leaders to rally round different - more egalitarian - values, dismissing a "one-size-fits-all" free-market solutions for the European Union.
Nevertheless, Labour modernisation continued apace, with the party making peace with the UK's membership of the European Union, the market economy, ditching unilateralism and moving away from firm commitments on re-nationalisation.
The end result is that companies will be able to sell goods and services under the same data protection rules to the entire European Union, a market of 500 million people.
The new coalition is an odd-looking assortment of Christian Democrats and free-market liberals of the Democratic Union, plus a gaggle of Greens (themselves a front of three separate parties), conservatives and social democrats.
In a strange new twist to the corporate drama that has been unfolding in the steel market, the United Steelworkers union is taking Esmark to arbitration to resolve their little spat over the sale of the company.
Although Brussels Eurocrats, depressed after the two ineffective commission presidencies of Jacques Santer and Romano Prodi, hanker after a man with the grand dreams and vaulting ambition of Jacques Delors, president in 1985-95, who pushed through the single market and plans for monetary union, a low-key but effective president may now be just what is needed.
But when the Soviet Union collapsed, the market for Bulgaria's produce went with it.
He stressed the government's total commitment to full engagement in the European Union and the single market.
The Common Market was turned into the European Union, with expanded powers.
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"Otherwise, the European Union's single market will descend into chaos, " Kroes added.
Many banks have also eyed the wire-transfer market with envy, but Western Union has fought back by opening a slew of new outlets in recent years.
If the U.S can live with a strong European Union and European common market, there is no reason why a similar Latin American and Caribbean body should be a problem.
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Until now the European Union's single market, though far from perfect, has been a shining example of a sustained and determined effort to bring trade barriers down and of the benefits that brings.
If you want to keep it somewhere safe and accessible for emergencies or a short-term goal like a home purchase in the next 5 years, you might want to open it with a bank, credit union, or money market fund.
And you have leaders in all of these cases who made profound arguments against interest, whether it's a union leader saying the market is good, or I met a lot of business people in Brazil who said equality is our problem too.
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