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via Project Syndicate: Vaccination’s Lifetime of Blessings

Africa – Vaccinations help to fight infectious diseases such as polio

Bishop Tutu explains the crucial importance of vaccination in the fight against highly infectious diseases such as polio. Funds have to be made available to guarantee free access to them by all children regardless of where they live. The article has a distinct personal note.

Joschka Fischer – Europe’s Winners and Losers

Thinking in categories such as ‘winners’ and ‘losers’ hardly help to find a compromise.

Joschka Fischer, former Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor of Germany, knows how to attract attention. Deploying pithy headlines such as Europe’s Winners and Losers for his latest article on the European crisis for Project Syndicate does just that (here). With our curiosity sufficiently stimulated let’s have a quick look at the article.

Is the Euro doomed?

To remain optimistic about Europe’s future, and the future of its common currency in particular, is not easy nowadays. ‘The EURO is doomed anyway‘ has become something like conventional wisdom. Jean Pisani-Ferry’s (Director of Bruegel) article for Project Syndicate Is the Euro Ending or Beginning? is not particularly cheerful either. But it makes an important observation.