And at a cost to real jobs elsewhere in the economy as taxpayers-qua-consumers were left with a hole in their pocket.

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Mental health counselling may prove to be a sine qua non to successfully re-integrating child soldiers into civilian life.

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Or to put it another way, banking union might be a precursor to the kind of fiscal and balance-sheet union that is widely regarded as the sine qua non of eurozone survival, but that supposedly vital financial union has not happened yet.

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