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Broken promises on aid | David Cronin

My queasiness isn't caused by the double standards of excessively paid rock stars mouthing off about poverty (those contradictions aside, both have paid a valuable role in raising awareness about issues like debt and Aids that are too important to be ...

From DAVID CRONIN, Guardian Unlimited,  18 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Tony Blair,  Gordon Brown,  Bono,  UK Conservative Party

Nato's poodle in sheep's clothing | David Cronin

Belgian prime minister Herman van Rompuy is now favourite for the new job of EU president. Photograph: Georges Gobet/AFP/Getty Images One of the things I have come to love about Belgium in my 15 years living here is that it has no shortage of ...

From DAVID CRONIN, Guardian Unlimited,  11 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Tony Blair

EU tramples on India's poor | David Cronin

The punishing schedules that world leaders follow don't leave much room for reflection. So I suspect that senior EU figures visiting New Delhi today are not dwelling on the enduring relevance of Mahatma Gandhi's teachings, even as they lay a wreath in ...

From DAVID CRONIN, Guardian Unlimited,  6 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Mahatma Gandhi,  World Bank,  Catherine Ashton

Q&A: EU Stepping Closer to Israel, Regardless

Q&A: David Cronin interviews European Commissioner for External Relations BENITA FERRERO-WALDNER BRUSSELS, Jul 30 (IPS) - Israel enjoys closer relations with the European Union than almost any other foreign country - and work on deepening ...

From DAVID CRONIN INTERVIEWS EUROPEAN COMMISSIONER FOR EXTERNAL RELATIONS BENITA FERRERO-WALDNER, Inter Press Service,  30 Jul 2009
Related Topics: European Commission,  Hamas,  Barack Obama,  European Union,  Benita Ferrero-Waldner

Europe refuses to get soil on its hands

The other evening I had an experience of mundane magic. At the early age of 38, I ate the first vegetable that I had grown all by myself. It was a humble scallion yet on my tongue it had a tang of pride and achievement. How many of the EU's environment ...

From DAVID CRONIN, Guardian Unlimited,  24 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Tony Blair,  Environment Agency

Ukip, the party of cheap laughs

Tony Benn recently expressed a widespread frustration about how the EU operates. "I'm a European – I was born one and I will die one," he told the Irish magazine Village. "But the present European Union structure is the most undemocratic you can ...

From DAVID CRONIN, Guardian Unlimited,  2 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Godfrey Bloom,  Tony Benn,  Nigel Farage,  Roger Knapman,  Robert Kilroy-Silk (politician)

FRANCE: 'Defying Rules on Arms Sales to Israel'

FRANCE: BRUSSELS, May 29 (IPS) - French arms sales to Israel are "in total contradiction" of European Union rules on the defence industry, the author of a new study has said. Between 2003 and 2007 France issued licences worth more than 446 ...

From DAVID CRONIN, Inter Press Service,  29 May 2009
Related Topics: Hamas,  Boeing,  Lockheed Martin,  Barack Obama,  George W. Bush

Govt set on June vote for climate change plan

The Federal Government will push on with plans for its emissions trading scheme despite it being declared ''dead in the water'' yesterday, effectively paving the way for an early election. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd wanted Parliament to pass the ...

From DANIELLE CRONIN AND DAVID MCLENNAN, EcoEarth News,  27 May 2009
Related Topics: Kevin Rudd,  Malcolm Turnbull

MIDEAST: 'Hamas Against Zionist Ideology, Not Judaism'

MIDEAST: GAZA CITY, May 14 (IPS) - A founding member of Hamas says he hates all weapons and insists that his organisation is not anti-Jewish. In an interview with IPS, Sayed Abu Musameh described frequent claims in the European and U.S. ...

From DAVID CRONIN, Inter Press Service,  14 May 2009
Related Topics: Hamas,  Gerry Adams,  U.S. Republican Party,  Avigdor Lieberman

MIDEAST: Assault Leaves Debris in the Mind

MIDEAST: GAZA CITY, May 11 (IPS) - Gazans have a colloquial term to describe the buzzing of Israeli warplanes that is an ever-present feature of their lives: zanana. The gallows humour of likening instruments of death to honey bees ...

From DAVID CRONIN, Inter Press Service,  11 May 2009
Related Topics: United Nations,  Hamas

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