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    • The right to an EU commissioner

      Balancing efficiency and legitimacy is a difficult task for the European Union as it enlarges to take in more and more member-states. The European Commission, its executive arm, has the sole right to initiate legislation and is the independent guardian of the treaties on which the EU is based. p

    • Oil price lessons

      Oil is back in the headlines. The price of crude oil is hovering around record levels and the impact is already being reflected at Irish petrol pumps. If high crude prices are sustained for a prolonged period, the impact will feed through to the general inflation rate. p
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    • Job reform was key to ending inequality in NI

      In January 1983 the Northern Ireland committee of the coalition government, elected a month earlier, identified the growing support for Sinn Féin/IRA in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of the hunger strikes as a serious threat to the security of our State, and indeed to that of the island of Ireland, writes Garret Fitzgerald . p

    • We need to make strong families a priority

      The Australian Minister for Finance, Peter Costello, gave journalists a good laugh this week, when he suggested that people should have three children, writes Breda O'Breda . p

    • What of those in non-sexual relationships?

      To describe a short person as vertically challenged is to use an obscure circumlocution, but there is no ambiguity, writes Martin Mansergh . p

    • Rare moment of hope as India rejects the extremists

      The poor of India have dealt a mighty blow to the political and economic chieftains, writes Salman Rushdie p

    • What have these extremists ever done for democracy?

      Drapier: Drapier was shocked by Minister of State Dick Roche's statement on Questions and Answers on Monday last. He claimed that the Good Friday agreement is a staging post to a settlement of the Northern Ireland issue. p

    • Mahon on hold again, and still no end in sight

      Not for the first time, the planning tribunal is spinning out of control, writes Paul Cullen p

    • Some new thinking on an EU rapid response capability

      World View/Paul Gillespie: 'Ireland continues to provide a sterling example of true national commitment to multilateralism." So says Mr Jean-Marie Guéhenno, the chief United Nations official in charge of peacekeeping operations, who addressed a conference on how the European Union and the UN can co-operate in military crisis management in Dublin this week. p
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    • An Irishman's Diary

      One person worthy of special mention as the centenary of Bloomsday approaches is the late John Ryan, artist, editor and theatrical producer, writes Brendan Lynch.   p
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