Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "Margaret Thatcher" produced 174 items.
| 1. Pointing the finger in the wrong direction | January 12, 2012 |
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Van Rompuy should not be blamed for the failings of the last EU summit. I was surprised to read the editorial in your 21 December-4 January edition (“The EU was poorly led... | |
| 2. Twenty years of joining the dots | November 24, 2011 |
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The financial crisis has put great strain on the single market, but that has not stopped EU leaders pledging to push it towards completion. Next year is the 20th anniversary... |
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| 3. Granite lady | September 1, 2011 |
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Austria's finance minister has a reputation for hardness. Trying to sum up any person in two words is usually invidious, but few would argue with the Austrian newspaper that... |
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| 4. What does the East do when the West goes bust? | June 30, 2011 |
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The new member states of the EU now look much more stable and secure than the traditional global powerhouses. The compass used to point west. It often wobbled, but always... | |
| 5. How 2011 could yet prove as good as 1989 | February 17, 2011 |
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The EU must use the means at its disposal to encourage a positive attitude to the changes on Europe's southern border. Watching the tumult in the Middle East, it is easy for... |
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| 6. Determined Conservative | December 9, 2010 |
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The UK's Secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs is a political survivor.
Like the Conservative Party, Caroline Spelman has been on a journey. First... |
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| 7. A warm welcome (as usual) | December 9, 2010 |
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Celebrating the opening of the London offices of the European Commission and European Parliament. William Hague, the UK's foreign minister, showed up at the official opening... | |
| 8. Who will rescue the rest of us? | November 5, 2010 |
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Strong leadership is desperately needed to give us all some hope. The rescue of the 33 Chilean miners, from what was feared would be their tomb, gave the world something to... |
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| 9. History buff | September 9, 2010 |
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Lithuania's prime minister has steely determination, and very poor popularity ratings. It takes a certain kind of individual to spend the summer holiday bike-riding and... |
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| 10. Half-measures will not ease the crisis | May 27, 2010 |
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Despite major decisions taken in Berlin, Brussels and Washington, the worst of the crisis may still be ahead. Turning points in history are notoriously difficult to... |
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| 11. Striking a better tone for a long-running debate | March 4, 2010 |
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The Commission is, fortunately, taking a more realistic perspective on the challenges facing Europe's economy than it did a decade ago. The Lisbon Agenda, with its... |
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| 12. Is the euro on the road to perdition? | February 18, 2010 |
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The eurozone stands at a critical juncture and could be very different after the Greek economic crisis is over. “Ford to City: drop dead” was how, in October 1975, the... |
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| 13. Frau Nein's shock treatment is dangerous for the eurozone | February 18, 2010 |
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Germany is crucifying Greece but is failing to do what it could do to help the eurozone. Angela Merkel is again ‘Frau Nein', the role in European politics that now seems... | |
| 14. Taking lessons from past failures | January 28, 2010 |
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Many anxious analyses have been spawned by the financial crisis of the past two years, but perhaps too little attention has been paid to the social and political fall-out... |
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| 15. Talks aim to unblock accession bid | January 7, 2010 |
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Croatian and Slovenian prime ministers to meet, with Croatia looking to get its bid for EU membership back on track. The prime ministers of Slovenia and Croatia will meet in... |
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| 16. Be bold on budget reform | November 19, 2009 |
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The Commission will not meet its deadline for a review of the EU's budget, but it should make debate on the subject a priority of Barroso II. By the end of 2009, the... | |
| 17. Looking back gladly at the era of a cold warrior | November 19, 2009 |
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Remembering Reagan's stirring speech. “Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” Ronald Reagan's stirring speech at the Berlin Wall on 12 June 1987 was not the death blow to... | |
| 18. Political scientist | October 22, 2009 |
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This scientist may prove a formidable chairwoman of the European Parliament's economic and financial committee. At a conference in Gothenburg last month, Sharon Bowles found... |
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| 19. Energetic northerner | October 1, 2009 |
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Sweden's enterprise and energy minister has a work ethic forged on the edge of the Arctic Circle. The energetic Maud Olofsson brings a distinctly northern perspective to the... |
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| 20. Labour MEPs' petty rows and punch-ups | September 10, 2009 |
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Anita Pollack had plenty of contact with her fellow Labour MEPs, but there is more diary than drama in her account. Were they wreckers or builders? This is the question that... |
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