A board member of the European Central Bank says that Eurozone members may need to surrender more of their sovereignty to save the euro. He says the euro bailout fund — the European Stability Mechanism — could form the core of a future centralized Eurozone budgetary authority.In other news, threats by the Taliban against health workers in the tribal areas of northwestern Pakistan have prevented the vaccination of hundreds of thousands of children against polio.
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