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One way of dealing with Middle East and North African asylum-seekers coming to the EU would be to allocate them in proportion to the arms exports by the different EU countries to those areas. That would mean that Britain, France and Germany, in that order, would take most refugees. Would it not be fair that […]
The slaughter of 129 innocents in Paris by the so-called Islamic State (IS) instils, by its casualness, fear into most of Europe. It is a new venture and one which is likely to be repeated perhaps until it affects all of our daily lives adversely. But IS operates on many fronts. Another comprehensivist IS policy […]
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62 people now own the same wealth as the poorest 3.6 billion people. 1% owns more than 99%. The gaps are widening. Talk of overseas aid may seem like trying to use a sticking plaster to plug a haemorrhage. In a world of trickle up economies with ever growing needs driven by conflict and climate, aid […]
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Taoiseach 2011-2016
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Ireland’s aid provision is 0.38% of GNI, the same as in the early 2000s
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Beleaguered and polarised, the future is a tolerant and civic nationalism
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The EU and the defeasible control of Irish destinies