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Eurozone crisis: the ‘shabby Irish tiger’ and the ‘headless chicken’ market

Has the ‘shabby Irish tiger’ contaminated the eurozone with an incurable disease or are the financial markets reacting like ‘headless chickens’ to the prospect of taking greater moral and fiscal responsibility for their actions?

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Ireland: the rise and fall of the Celtic Tiger

The Irish experience ‘from rags to riches’ and back again is a vivid exemplar of the power of global economics on a small European country.

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Will the Tea Party prove toxic to Obama’s hopes of a second term?

Opinion polls show that the Tea Party’s anger over the rise of Big Government is now shared by a significant number of the American people. Between disillusioned Democrats and disaffected Republicans, will the Tea Party movement tip the balance against the Obama administration?

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Sarkozy and the Roma: ethnic cleansing or legitimate government action?

Why is Sarkozy targeting the Roma and why is the European Commission targeting Sarkozy?

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The birth, life and possible early demise of the euro

The global economic recession has triggered a crisis for the eurozone, exposing the mismatch of economies such as Germany and Greece. Will the euro survive?

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Election review or ‘that was the week that was!’

History has just been made with the election of a ‘hung’ parliament and the formation of a governing coalition in peace time.

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Has the Obama administration been fatally wounded?

On the first anniversary of the US president’s inauguration, little known Republican candidate Scott Brown delivered a huge psychological blow to the Democrats by snatching the Massachusetts senate seat of the late Ted Kennedy.

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Wonderful Copenhagen or ‘Bleak Expectations’?

Politicians across the world first tried to ‘grasp the nettle’ of manmade climate change at Rio de Janeiro in 1992, tried again at Kyoto in 1997 and are now in Copenhagen for a third attempt.

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Jimmy Carter: much opposition to Obama is racist

“I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African American,” says Jimmy Carter.

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