Uniquely Poor Management: Report Skewers Top EU Diplomat Ashton

Catherine Ashton, Europe’s top diplomat, has failed to provide the clout her office requires, a report by the European Parliament has concluded. Her successors are already jockeying for a position in the race to snag the EU’s most important foreign policy post.
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Santorum charity for the poor spent most of its money on management, political friends.

As Republicans gathered for their national convention in Philadelphia a decade ago, Rick Santorum, who was then an up-and-coming senator from Pennsylvania, launched a charity that he said would improve the lives of low-income residents in his home state.
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Germany runs cyber-attack crisis management exercise.

What if, suddenly, ATMs weren’t issuing any more money, or airport security technology failed, or if hackers suddenly attacked critical infrastructure in Germany? Responses to scenarios like this were the subject of rehearsals by state and federal government in this week’s LUKEX crisis management exercise.
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