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Tony Blair knows that he has an impossible task as the Special Envoy to the Quartet. He has no new ideas of how to get a peace process going. There have been no initiatives coming from him. Worse still, he does not appear to enjoy enough level of respect from one of the two key parties....
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Juncker overstayed his time on the Eurogroup. Like an overprotective mother-bird that does not know when to let her little ones go, he clawed on to this group for too long. Even when he had stopped being the finance minister of his country, he stayed on as a non-voting head of the group....
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As unemployment continues to ravage southern Europe and the economies shrink, a number of questions are being asked: How much solidarity could the North show to the South? How could this be done? Is it realistic or fair to expect taxpayers in some countries to bail out the others that have been less than...
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Reform of health care systems is on the agenda across the world. The ageing populations in the West is putting increasing pressure on budgets. Public budgets are under particular pressure in many countries following the aftermath of the 2007/8 global financial crisis. Can the private sector deliver more efficiently than the public sector? Are...
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It is a fact that membership of the European Union has been mutually beneficial to both the UK and the EU. Nevertheless, in recent years, the dynamics have changed and the country is gradually being brought down as it loses its ability to carve out a sovereign socio-economic policy aimed at improving the lives...
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In reality, we are no Europeans. We are British. We drive on the left, they drive on the right. We are proud of who we are. We are international and open to the world for business. So, we sold UK Electricity to EDF of France. We sold British Water and British Gas. We sold...
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“The current reforms that are underway, both in the US and in the EU – despite the conflicting approaches – are at least indicative of a consensus on the need for reform of the CRAs. There are weaknesses in both approaches, but it is difficult to see how the US/UK approach is going...
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Rightly or wrongly, Greece is perceived as being wrong on the issue of Macedonia. Within the European Union, other than Greece, all member states recognise Macedonia as the constitutional name for the country which Greece insists should be called “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” (FYROM). Resulting from this is the fact that rather than building cooperation, seeds...
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