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Ghosts of debt and jobs will haunt economy
The Irish Times - Tuesday, December 29, 2009
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/1229/1224261354227.html
Morgan Kelly
OPINION : By 2015, Iceland will almost certainly be a lot better off than Ireland because it dealt decisively with its banks.
For grand corruption, though, we will have to look to Nama. By allowing the banks to dictate the terms [...]

Two similar articles from newspapers on the political Right and Left forwarded for your information by Anthony Coughlan:
TELEGRAPH
Tuesday 24.2.09
ECB faces mutiny from national bank governors as recession deepens
- The European Central Bank is capitulating.
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
For months the ECB held sternly to the high ground of orthodoxy as the US, Japanese, British, Canadian, [...]

DAILY TELEGRAPH
Monday 23.2.08
If Der Spiegel is correct, the German finance ministry is drafting rescue plans to prevent default on the edges of the eurozone leading to a full-blown collapse of Europe’s monetary system.
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
This is an entirely appropriate policy in economic terms. One dreads to think what would happen if the world’s twin reserve [...]

You may find of  interest the remarks below of Mr Dick Roche TD  when a backbencher in 2001  and before he was promoted to Minister for Europe, regarding the proposal to re-run the Nice referendum.
They provide a piquant contrast to some of his recent statements.
The voter turnout in the 2001 Nice referendum was 35%,  in [...]

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Thursday 6 August 2008
Dear Stephen,
In your Irish Times article last Saturday you call on the Government to ratify the Lisbon Treaty regardless of the 12 June referendum result.
It is strange that a political correspondent of a major national newspaper should seek to become [...]

LISBON - NOT JUST ANOTHER EU TREATY

Below are the two key sentences of the amendment which you will be asked to put into the Irish Constitution on Thursday 12 June. If people vote Yes they will be giving the European Union the constitutional form of a Federal EU State, in which Ireland would [...]

THE LEAKED BRITISH E-MAIL ON THE IRISH GOVERNMENT’S REFERENDUM STRATEGY
From last Monday’s IRISH DAILY MAIL
(Front page report on Monday 14 April 2008 + Editorial on page 14)
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THE TREATY CON by John Lee and Michael Lea
The Government has hatched an elaborate plan to deceive voters over the forthcoming EU treaty referendum, the Irish Daily Mail can [...]