While harm reduction measures like the ones PITIRRE offer face the pinch of Puerto Rico's fiscal crisis, police enforcement of suspected drug pushers has been relentless in recent months.
-- Leadership views on economic, trade, and fiscal policies and regulatory enforcement.
But the unravelling of the authority of the EU could, in time, extend to areas well beyond the enforcement of fiscal discipline.
These changes are meant to complement a set of six measures approved by the European Parliament last week to tighten enforcement of fiscal rules for member nations.
Or even of pursuing structural reforms in Germany itself.More important, the German prescription misdiagnoses the crisis as caused by poor enforcement of fiscal rules, rather than by poor design of the euro itself.
This vision has to include a pledge of fiscal probity and vigorous law enforcement.
The euro's agony could not be ended simply through ever-tougher enforcement of the fiscal rules, deficit-cutting and economic reforms by individual countries and, in extremis, bailout loans.
The I.M.F. also urged policy makers to "establish an effective economic and monetary union by strengthening the enforcement of sound fiscal and structural policies and completing the area-wide framework for financial stability".
She said she wanted to "change the basis of [European] co-operation – through, for example, treaty change – in order to create a fiscal union with powers of enforcement, at least for those countries in the eurozone".
"Anyone who, a few months ago, had said that at the end of the year 2011 we would have taken very serious and concrete steps towards a European stability union, a European fiscal union with powers of enforcement, would have been considered crazy," she said.
