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Sunday, July 21, 2013
Rome district bombed in war says Europe promises broken
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ROME (Reuters) - Seventy years after a World War Two air raid killed 1,500 in their working-class Rome district, San Lorenzo residents on Friday rued a European Union they said had brought peace, but not prosperity.
Spending cuts and tax increases to lower the borrowing costs and debt of weaker euro zone economies have fed Europe-wide resentment towards the project of integration, conceived to ensure peace in the continent after centuries of war.
"There is peace, yes, but we've gone back to 50 years ago. All my grandchildren are without work. Even if they've gone to university they can't find anything," said Maria Minossi, who lived through the bombing aged eight.
"War with bombs, never again. But now it's a different kind of struggle, they've abandoned us here to hardship, young and old."
The shock bombardment of one of the world's most beautiful cities by Allied forces helped to topple fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, but waves of bombs aimed at Rome's railway hit the densely-populated adjacent San Lorenzo district, devastating a treasured basilica and causing mass civilian deaths.
Historians link bombings like San Lorenzo's to the movement to unite Europe, because the deep trauma of city bombardments fuelled convictions that war should never happen again.
Yet even survivors who wept as they recalled finding corpses on the street said they were unhappy with Italy's current state. While the country is at peace, Italy's longest recession since the war ended has caused record-high youth unemployment.
"At least there is peace now. But we are feeling the crisis. My grandchildren can't find work. Not knowing how they will have a future is a terrible thing," said Adriana Amalfitani, who at the age of 17 ran frantically through San Lorenzo as bombs fell, searching for her family. Her sister was found dead in the rubble.
"Europe cannot be united. We are too different. There is no common idea," Amalfitani said sadly, as she smoked a cigarette on a bench during a wreath-laying remembrance ceremony in San Lorenzo's Park of the Fallen on Friday.
Angry local residents who said the government had neglected San Lorenzo, where several bombed buildings still stand open to the skies, harangued the Rome's deputy mayor when he arrived to preside over the ceremony, blocking his way to the podium and shouting "Shame! Shame!"
A female protester grabbed the microphone and shouted: "Italy is in ruins! Our parents are turning in their graves!"
Anger at economic hardship fuelled the success of the 5-Star Movement, which has called for a referendum on Italy's membership of the euro, a key part of the European integration project now blamed by critics for hobbling growth for the 17 countries using the currency by shackling incompatible economies together.
The original purpose of the integration of Europe has, for many, been lost, said military historian Vanda Wilcox of John Cabot University, an American institution of higher learning in Rome.
"If you ask people about the European Union today they don't even know that's why it came into being. They associate it with economics and interference from Brussels, not that it was to preserve the peace of Europe," Wilcox said.
(Reporting by Naomi O'Leary; Editing by Michael Roddy)
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Saturday, July 20, 2013
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Monday, July 1, 2013
Why Snowden's asylum has Ecuadorean flower growers worried
In an effort to gain leverage over the Ecuadorean government, the Obama administration has indefinitely delayed the planned elimination of tariffs on the import of roses from Ecuador. Without the rose benefit, Ecuadorean flower growers worry their trade relationship with the US may be damaged.
Flowers grow on the Valleflor flower farm in Pifo, Ecuador, Saturday. The men who grow flowers in Ecuador are deeply concerned that whatever happens to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, they may turn out to be the most unlikely collateral damage from the geopolitical wrangle over his fate.
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The Obama administration sent a thinly veiled economic threat to this South American country on Thursday when it indefinitely delayed a decision to eliminate tariffs on imports of roses worth about $250 million a year. The move created leverage over the leftist government seen as likeliest to grant National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden political asylum that would protect him from US criminal charges.
A week after Snowden began his stuttering, surreal flight across the globe, every passing day without him making progress toward Ecuadorean asylum makes the prospect look less likely. But the men who grow roses, asters and delphinia in the thin air of?Ecuador's?sun-soaked highlands are deeply concerned that, whatever happens to Snowden, they may turn out to be the most unlikely collateral damage from the geopolitical wrangle over his fate.
"This totally changes the financial panorama for our businesses and seriously affects the structure of our markets," said Descalzi, whose 280 employees produce some 22 million roses a year. "We're just shocked that an event so far from the political and economic life of?Ecuador?has caused so much commotion and worry."
The rose benefit for?Ecuador?had been widely expected to be approved. Any delay, they say, puts it into uncomfortably uncertain territory.
Even if Snowden never touches Ecuadorean soil and the US cuts the 6.8 percent tariff on Ecuadorean roses, along with tariffs on frozen broccoli and canned artichokes, Ecuadorean flower growers are worried that the brouhaha has damaged?Ecuador?in the eyes of the United States, hurting its reputation for stability and reliability among the buyers who must decide between flowers from?Ecuador?and the already tariff-free blooms from its nearby market-dominant competitor, Colombia.
"This is not a mathematical equation," said Benito Jaramillo, the head of the Ecuadorean flower-growers' association. The graduate of Texas A&M and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign employs hundreds of people growing "summer flowers" ? a category of less-flashy blooms like hydrangeas and asters ? on his farm about a half-hour from the capital, Quito.
"The point is that there are a lot of other factors that damage our industry's image and competitiveness in the mid-term," Jaramillo said.
Flowers are serious business in?Ecuador.
The industry says it employs about 50,000 people on about 550 farms across the country and is indirectly responsible for 110,000 jobs, putting it after only oil, seafood and bananas in the ranks of the country's biggest exporters. It boasts that the long days, rich sunlight and cool nights of the Andean highlands mean the heads of flowers, particularly roses, grow fuller and richer than those from Colombia, which they scoff at as more suitable for grocery stores than florists.
Industry representatives spent around a year campaigning hard in Washington for the inclusion of cut roses under the Generalized System of Preferences, or GSP, a mechanism meant to encourage development in lower-income countries. A broader trade pact that covers a wide range of Ecuadorean products, the Andean Trade Preference Act, had been widely expected to expire next month. That now seems certain, not least because?Ecuador?declared Thursday that it was preemptively rejecting it.
Now, the flower industry has turned its focus to its own government, which it desperately hopes won't offer asylum to Snowden.
A small group of US senators explicitly threatened trade retaliation if?Ecuador?harbors Snowden. And on Saturday, Vice President Joe Biden asked Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa to turn down any asylum request.
"We can't put the interests of 14 million Ecuadoreans at risk because of a 29-year-old hacker whom we don't even know," Descalzi said. "This gentleman doesn't mean anything to us."
The business impacts of the Snowden affair have infuriated?Ecuador's?main business groups, who accuse the government of putting ideology before commerce.
The decision to renounce the Andean Trade deal was "permeated by political and ideological motives," said Roberto Aspiazu, chairman of a coalition of?Ecuador's?largest industries. The country's business sector is calling on the government to manage the relationship with the United States "with the utmost care," he said.
The government said it planned to compensate business damaged by the loss of US tariff benefits and has painted its decision in terms of the nation's sovereignty versus US threats.
"But in any case, now they're wanting to destroy?Ecuador?for receiving an asylum application from Mr. Snowden and they are pulling out the rubbish that we spy as well," President Correa said. "If you behave badly we will take (the trade deal) away from you. Well, here you have the sovereign response from?Ecuador, my comrades."
But business groups warned that any government compensation could be interpreted as a subsidy subject to international litigation.
When asked how he feels about the whole situation, Jaramillo, the head of the flower association, thought before responding with a single word: "frustrated."
"One isolated issue shouldn't create so much damage," he said.
Gonzalo Solano contributed to this report.
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Attack on security convoy kills 15 in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) ? A car bomb exploded as a convoy of paramilitary troops passed through the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar on Sunday, killing at least 15 people and wounding 25 others, police said.
Most of the dead and wounded appeared to be civilians. The blast struck one vehicle in the convoy of paramilitary Frontier Corps troops, but the other passed by safely, said police official Shafiullah Khan. It is unclear whether it was a suicide bombing or the explosives in the vehicle were set off by remote control.
The blast damaged many vehicles and shops in the area, according to local TV footage. Frontier Corps vehicles rushed to the scene to help after the attack, as a police officer collected evidence from the crater caused by the bomb.
No one has claimed responsibility. But suspicion will likely fall on the Pakistani Taliban. The group has been waging a bloody insurgency against the government for years that has killed thousands of security personnel and civilians.
Peshawar is located on the edge of Pakistan's semiautonomous tribal region, the main Taliban sanctuary in the country, and has been hit by scores of bombings over the years.
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Student loan rates double without Congress' action
University of Iowa student Angie Platt, 20, is seen on campus in Iowa City, Iowa, Monday, July 1, 2013 . College students taking out new loans for the fall term will see interest rates twice what they were in the spring ? unless Congress fulfills its pledge to restore lower rates when it returns after the July 4 holiday. Platt said the increase in interest rates for subsidized Stafford loans will add to her debt load, which is expected to top $60,000 by the time she graduates. (AP Photo/Ryan J. Foley)
University of Iowa student Angie Platt, 20, is seen on campus in Iowa City, Iowa, Monday, July 1, 2013 . College students taking out new loans for the fall term will see interest rates twice what they were in the spring ? unless Congress fulfills its pledge to restore lower rates when it returns after the July 4 holiday. Platt said the increase in interest rates for subsidized Stafford loans will add to her debt load, which is expected to top $60,000 by the time she graduates. (AP Photo/Ryan J. Foley)
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? College students taking out new loans for the fall term will see interest rates twice what they were in the spring ? unless Congress fulfills its pledge to restore lower rates when it returns after the July 4 holiday.
Subsidized Stafford loans, which account for roughly a quarter of all direct federal borrowing, went from 3.4 percent interest to 6.8 percent interest on Monday. Congress' Joint Economic Committee estimated the cost passed to students would be about $2,600.
"In the grand scheme of all the loans that I already have, I suppose it's not out of control," said Angie Platt, a 20-year-old University of Iowa student who expects to graduate with at least $60,000 in debt.
"It's just another thing to add on. It doesn't help me; that's for sure," the Lakeville, Minn., native added.
Efforts to keep interest rates from doubling on new Stafford loans fell apart last week amid partisan wrangling in the Senate. Democratic senators and the White House both predicted that a deal would be reached in Congress to bring the rates down again before students return to campus.
But if an agreement remains elusive, students could find themselves saddled with higher interest rates this year than last.
"It's kind of surprising; that's a big jump," said Rebecca Ehlers, an Iowa State University senior majoring in math.
A $1,000 subsidized Stafford loan is part of her financial aid package and she said she's reconsidering how she pays for school.
"I may work more or ask my parents for money rather than going through all that," said Ehlers, 21.
She ? and millions of others who use federal student loans to pay for their education ? has some time before she has to make that decision. But not much.
"The only silver lining is that relatively few borrowers take out student loans in July and early August. You really can't take out student loans more than 10 days before the term starts," said Terry Hartle, a top official with colleges' lobbying operation at the American Council on Education.
But that is little consolation for students looking at unexpected costs waiting for them on graduation day if Congress doesn't take action before it breaks again for the month of August.
"I'm upset by it," said Kolton Gustafson, a George Washington University political science major heading into his senior year. "I wish there was a larger reaction to it."
"Many students are saying and thinking, 'I'll pay it later,'" the Grand Junction, Colo., native added. "That's why you don't see more people fighting back."
Students only borrow money for one school year at a time. Subsidized Stafford loans taken before Monday are not affected by the rate hike, nor are federal PLUS, Perkins or unsubsidized Stafford loans slated for the coming year.
"We're telling members to advise students that interest rates are going up," said Justin Draeger, president of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.
Subsidized Stafford loans go to needier students and often are coupled with other types of lending.
He said he doesn't anticipate that the rate increase will prevent students from attending classes in the fall. The effects, he said, won't be felt until after students graduate, when they have to start paying back the loans.
"This doesn't decrease the dollars available to pay for college. It increases the cost of the loan," he said.
Both political parties tried to blame the other for the hike and student groups complained the increase in interest rates would add to student loan debt that already surpasses credit card debt in this country.
Lawmakers knew for a full year the July 1 deadline was coming but were unable to strike a deal to dodge that increase. During last year's presidential race, both parties pledged to extend the 3.4 percent interest rates for another year to avoid angering young voters.
But the looming hike lacked sufficient urgency this year and Congress last week left town for the holiday without an agreement. Instead, the Democratic-led Senate pledged to revisit the issue as soon as July 10 and retroactively restore the rates for another year ? into 2014, when a third of Senate seats and all House seats are up for election.
At the White House, a spokesman predicted a deal could be reached before students return to campus.
"We are confident they will get there and that the solution will include retroactive protection for students who borrow after July 1 so that their student loan rates don't double," Matt Lehrich said.
Even when lawmakers return, there's no guarantee there will be the votes to restore the lower rates.
"When we pass a deadline and there are not immediate effects, the sense of urgency that accompanies a deadline evaporates and that is what I'm afraid will happen here," Hartle said.
For months, the student loan issue was the subject of partisan sniping ? sometimes within the same party.
Obama's budget proposal included a measure that would have linked student loan interest rates with the financial markets. Fellow Democrats called that unacceptable because there were no guarantees interest rates would not skyrocket if the economy improves.
The Republican-led House, meanwhile, co-opted the president's proposal and passed a bill in May that linked interest rates to the financial markets but with a cap on how high rates could climb.
The Democratic-led Senate, meanwhile, tried for a two-year extension that failed to overcome a procedural hurdle. A Republican measure, similarly, came up short.
Top White House officials told allies to find any deal that could win enough votes and avert the politically and fiscally costly doubling.
An attempt at a bipartisan agreement fizzled last week when the Democratic chairman of the Senate education panel, Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa, declared it a non-starter and urged lawmakers to extend the rates for one more year ? when they get back next week.
Back on the University of Iowa campus in Iowa City ? where Obama campaigned against a rate hike last year ? senior Julia Vander Wilt seemed resigned to the higher costs for her subsidized Stafford loans.
"It's a little bit insane that we're paying so much," the 22-year-old student said. "But I don't know if there's really anything I can do about it."
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Associated Press writers Ryan J. Foley in Iowa City, Iowa, and Stacy A. Anderson in Washington contributed to this report.
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