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Time to take stock as debate unfolds
18.06.2008 23:25
ireland.com
THE TIMING and substance of the Government's response to last week's defeat in the Lisbon Treaty referendum have become more clear in its preparation for the European Council in Brussels today and tomorrow. So far there has been a pronounced readiness elsewhere to respect Ireland's decision, but not at the expense of other ratifications. The defeated Yes campaign is also coming to terms with why it lost the referendum in a frank and necessary self-criticism.
Ireland
Opinions
Fisheries concessions
18.06.2008 23:25
ireland.com
A S FISH stocks decline and the price of diesel soars, fishermen are caught between rigid catch quotas and the loan demands of their bank managers. There is, in harsh economic terms, no future for many families. The Government admitted as much by providing funding to decommission one-third of our ageing whitefish fleet some time ago. But what was to have been a gradual and methodical process of painful adjustment has been turned on its head by rising fuel prices. The viability of many more whitefish boats is in doubt.
Ireland
Opinions
Scare tactics of No camp was the greatest deceit
18.06.2008 23:25
ireland.com
Legally binding agreements do not lend themselves to loose, easy-to-understand language, writes David Adams
Ireland
Opinions
US stance must change to solve climate change crisis
18.06.2008 23:25
ireland.com
While the US developed a response to ozone depletion, it refuses to face down the threat of climate change, writes John Gibbons
Ireland
Opinions
No point in banning headscarves and turbans
18.06.2008 23:25
ireland.com
OPINION: Ireland has an opportunity to lead the headscarf debate and set an example for the rest of Europe, writes Jakob de Roover
Ireland
Opinions
Source of anti-treaty Libertas funding remains a mystery
18.06.2008 23:25
ireland.com
ANALYSIS: Declan Ganley says the organisation will comply with the law on disclosing sources of political funding. However, under the law, the public is entitled to know virtually nothing, writes Colm Keena
Ireland
Opinions
FF and FG point finger of blame at each other
18.06.2008 23:25
ireland.com
ANALYSIS: Inevitably there are recriminations between the two main parties after the Lisbon debacle, writes Deaglan De Breadun
Ireland
Opinions
Petrol prices will ignite more tales from the campfire
18.06.2008 23:25
ireland.com
EIGHTY-SIX per cent of the American people believe the price of gasoline will climb to five bucks a gallon this year, a big shift in public opinion from a year ago when most people felt that oil prices were spiking high and would soon return to normal - which is 35 cents a gallon, same as a pack of smokes - and we'd be able to head west in our big camper vans and motor homes for a nice summer vacation, writes Garrison Keillor
Ireland
Opinions
An Irishman's Diary
18.06.2008 23:25
ireland.com
LIKE MANY cultural pursuits along the Border, music was often drowned out during the Troubles. But no sooner had the 1994 ceasefires been called than one Louth woman set out to help it recover its voice. Sharon Treacy-Dunne was a music teacher in the St Louis Secondary School, Dundalk. And her big idea - a little mad at the time - was to establish the Cross-Border Orchestra of Ireland, writes Frank McNally
Ireland
Opinions
Verkhovna Rada Refuses To Oblige Cabinet To Resettle Minimum Living Wage
18.06.2008 10:27
ukranews.com
Ten deputies voted for regulation No 2107 (authors - mps Vasyl Khara, Mykhailo Papiyev and Yaroslav Sukhoi from the Party of Regions faction) with the required 226. Having rejected the regulation, Verkhovna Rada refused to oblige the Cabinet of Ministers to submit a monthly report on actual minimum living wage computations, including in the regions, to the Verkhovna Rada Committee for Social Policy and Labor.
Ukraine
Politics
Cabinet To Discuss June 25 Price Situation In Regions
18.06.2008 10:27
ukranews.com
The government decided at the meeting June 18 to postpone inflation and regional issues until the next gathering", he said. Shlapak recommended the government to review thoroughly their inflation claims against regional state administrations. As Ukrainian News reported, the Cabinet of Ministers postponed hearing the reports about a price situation on consumer markets to be delivered June 18 by Leonid Chernovetskyi, Kyiv City Administration Head, Viktor Bondar, Head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional state administration, Volodymyr Lohvynenko, Head of the Donetsk regional state administration, Acting Heads of the Sumy and Zaporizhia regional state administrations Mykola Lavryk and Oleksandr Starukh respectively
Ukraine
Politics
Rada Coalition Refuses To Back Draft Laws Proposed By Minority
18.06.2008 09:31
ukranews.com
Parliamentary Deputy Roman Zvarych, the deputy head of the parliamentary faction of the Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense bloc, announced this at a parliamentary session.
Ukraine
Politics
Rada Refuses To Boost Prestige Of Mining Profession
18.06.2008 07:26
ukranews.com
The draft law No. 1097-1 received 218 votes at its first reading while at least 226 votes were required for its approval.
Ukraine
Politics
Russia's Permanent Envoy To NATO Rogozin Says Russia Not Intending To Withdraw Black Sea Fleet From Crimea
18.06.2008 07:26
ukranews.com
He gave the position in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper.
Ukraine
Politics
Scheffer Sure Of Ukraine's Ability To Achieve Joining NATO MAP
18.06.2008 07:26
ukranews.com
He told Fifth TV Channel on June 17.
Ukraine
Politics
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