Go to the Content Friday, 19 March 2010
Your search for "Oscar Wilde" produced 12 items.
| 1. Brown's project manager | July 17, 2008 |
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Can Jon Cunliffe, Gordon Brown's Europe adviser, succeed as a one-man show? During his long wait at the Treasury to become UK prime minister, Gordon Brown came to value two... |
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| 2. Animal champion | April 9, 2008 |
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The father of London's would-be mayor and the author of the novel “The Commissioner” looks back at his “most wonderful job” – in the Commission in Brussels. If... |
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| 3. The making of Ireland: more luck than management? | March 19, 2008 |
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Bookshops in Ireland tend to carry a disproportionately large ‘Irish Interest' section: rows of self-approving, sentimental offerings, which will be brought home and,... | |
| 4. Barroso must block the exit door | March 6, 2008 |
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Why Markos Kyprianou's departure is important. The departure of Markos Kyprianou from the European Commission is not a historic event. This is no slight on the man himself.... | |
| 5. The hinges fall off Hübner's cabinet | July 26, 2007 |
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The so-called Lisbonisation of EU regional policy demands that regional aid is used to create jobs. Danuta Hübner, the European commissioner for regional policy, seems... | |
| 6. How to listen so our kids will speak | July 6, 2006 |
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The children's rights initiative launched by the European Commission in Strasbourg this week proposes a White Paper at the end of next year, or possibly in 2008. Several... | |
| 7. A sea change for Europe | May 4, 2006 |
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"A source of romance, but also of separation, unknown perils and grief." With their references to Oscar Wilde, Baudelaire and Shakespeare, alongside a flowery description of... | |
| 8. 'And the Europeans of the Year are...' | December 5, 2002 |
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“DEMOCRACY means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.”Oscar Wilde's remarks – the staple diet of after-dinner speakers – were usually... | |
| 9. Time off for good behaviour? | September 20, 2001 |
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"Work is the curse of the drinking classes," Oscar Wilde famously observed. Thankfully, the EU institutions are doing their bit to purge themselves of the calamity wrought... | |
| 10. Commissioners book up their summer holiday reading | July 31, 1997 |
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With all the paperwork Commissioners have to plough through during the year, you wouldn't think reading would be high on their holiday agenda. But it is. Entre Nous made... | |
| 11. Firm allies, but bitter competitors | April 3, 1997 |
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EUROPE and North America are,as Oscar Wilde once quipped, two continents separated by the same language. In the dying throws of the 20th century, that remains as true as it... | |
| 12. OUT OF HOURS | February 20, 1997 |
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ConcertsOrchestre des Champs-Elysées, La Chapelle Royale and Collegium Vocale conducted by Philippe Herrewhege. Works by Hector Berlioz. Palais des Beaux-Arts. 20 Feb.... | |
