For eight months, Cypriot politicians failed to recognize a central truth: that while imposing losses on depositors would cross a Rubicon, turning the euro zone into a transfer union would cross an even bigger one.
Mario Monti of Bocconi University in Milan has found that only 20% of services provided in the European Union have a cross-border component, for instance.
Stories of derelict controllers keep piling up, even as the head of the FAA and the leader of the controllers' union started a cross-country tour to spread the gospel of professionalism to the rank and file.
Members of the Rail Maritime and Transport union (RMT) based at Charing Cross and Victoria will be voting in the next few weeks.
Of the 106, 200 people detected trying to cross illegally into the European Union in 2009, almost three-quarters were stopped in Greece (see chart).
But Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, whose Liberal Democrats oppose a referendum, said leaving altogether would "make us less safe because we co-operate in the European Union to go after criminal gangs that cross borders".
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But emergency services are being maintained and union members have been given special permission to cross picket lines.
For its part, Brazil has promoted the South American Union (UNASUR), which aims to develop cross-border infrastructure and defence co-operation.
In cross-border matters, the International Telecommunication Union, through which governments co-operate on telephone numbers, would be in charge.
Labour and Plaid members also refused to cross a PCS picket line in March 2010 when the union was in dispute with the then Labour UK government.
Di Centa, brother of former Olympic champion Manuela di Centa, is the first athlete from outside Scandinavia or the former Soviet Union to win the Olympic 50km race, the most prestigious on the cross-country program.
Eurocrats say they first want all 27 members of the European Union to adopt the same procedures for bank resolution and deposit guarantees (with arrangements for cross-border co-operation).
The cross-party committee warned that the increased use of biofuels, part of the European Union's demand for greater stability in energy, would drive up the cost of food.
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Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie called for the first minister to tell his MSPs to cross the picket line if next week's strike action by the Public and Commercial Services union goes ahead.
Now unionists at Stormont are calling for the Union flag to be flown 365 days a year over Parliament Buildings - a proposal that seems destined to divide the cross-party commission that manages the Assembly building.
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