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By Niall Crowley. Sandro Gozi, Secretary of State for European Policies in Italy, caught the spirit of it. On behalf of the Italian Presidency of the European Council he spoke of a lost decade where the main reason for establishing the European Union: the advancing of fundamental values such as equality and human rights, was […]
Pressure intensifies on Irish Aid to engage the private sector more pro-actively.
Journalism gets used to the idea that principle can be dangerous.
Multinational States to break up into national ones.
Are Clooney and wife losing touch?
In Greece the backlash finds concrete form
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By Peter Emerson. Nineteen eighty-five: Mikhail Gorbachev; the start of the end of Soviet communism. Those were exciting times. The collapse of the Berlin wall, the first Russian elections, the quests for Georgian/Lithuanian independence, and so on. Life was changing, fast. And even those who opposed such changes, like those of the Albanian regime, with […]