Go to the Content Friday, 19 March 2010
Your search for "Winston Churchill" produced 44 items.
| 1. Composed economist | January 28, 2010 |
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The man nominated to be the Hungarian member of the new Commission exudes an air of intellectual honesty and curiosity. László Andor is an unusual politician. For... |
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| 2. Bankers facing bruising battle | October 15, 2009 |
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Central bankers and banking supervisors think that, despite the trillions of euros of government aid, bank bosses have not understood what is at stake. Europe's central... |
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| 3. The cost of Dick Cheney | May 9, 2009 |
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George W. Bush has started work on his memoirs. Count to ten before you respond. The autobiographies of political leaders are not a very elevated literary form. First, few... | |
| 4. Crisis provides a green opportunity (II) | March 26, 2009 |
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The financial crisis is an opportunity to develop an economic framework with long-term benefits for the environment. Looking back on last year's main topic of discussion –... | |
| 5. Living in history | November 28, 2008 |
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When you get history wrong, it can skew your own strategic choices.
I recently took part in a public debate with Paul Keating, Australia's former prime minister. He is... | |
| 6. Lincoln, Roosevelt, Churchill...Obama? | November 21, 2008 |
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His ‘audacity of hope' will not suffice, but the US president-elect has other cards that may prove vital: popular support and an understanding of the challenges we face.... | |
| 7. The American leader we need | October 28, 2008 |
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What Europeans need is a president who requires them to put their efforts where their mouths have been.
Around the world, America's presidential election campaign has... | |
| 8. Poland struggles to come to terms with its history | June 19, 2008 |
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Tough questions about the past of the iconic leader of Poland's Solidarity movement should be answered, not dodged. Did the most famous living Pole, Lech Walesa, collaborate... | |
| 9. The pretender | January 10, 2008 |
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The fall of communism in Poland produced many astonishing political careers as the regime's former opponents emerged from cramped, book-lined apartments to take their places... | |
| 10. EU-bashing and red herrings in the UK | October 25, 2007 |
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That the UK is not a member of the eurozone is at least partly down to the influence of Australian-American global media magnate Rupert Murdoch who is against British... | |
| 11. The muddle-headed bear | December 21, 2006 |
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“Russia is a riddle wrapped in mystery inside an enigma.” This too often repeated definition by Winston Churchill is still surprisingly actual. No democracy survives... | |
| 12. Britain and the man with the golden smile | November 23, 2006 |
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Some years ago there was a vote to identify the most boring aspect of the British way of life. The Queen's spectacles comfortably won first prize; second came any family with... | |
| 13. Has Ukraine's chance slipped away? | July 27, 2006 |
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Alexander Kwasniewski played a critical role in the success in 2004 of Ukraine's Orange Revolution. Kwasniewski, who at that time was president of Poland, had some harsh... | |
| 14. MEPs want land included in purchase of buildings | June 22, 2006 |
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Members of the European Parliament's budgets committee are threatening to block plans by the assembly's administration to buy two buildings in Strasbourg unless the purchase... | |
| 15. Strasbourg chief denies Parliament rent rip-off | April 27, 2006 |
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The Strasbourg city authorities have hit back at criticism from the European Parliament for taking a slice of the rent the assembly pays for two buildings. Robert Grossman,... | |
| 16. MEPs decry overcharge for Strasbourg buildings | April 20, 2006 |
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Senior MEPs have accused the city of Strasbourg of charging the European Parliament an inflated rent for two buildings in the Alsatian capital. They believe that the... | |
| 17. Cartoons spur 'clash of civilisations' | February 16, 2006 |
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Maybe Samuel Huntington was right after all. A quick flick through Europe's papers this week shows the row over the publication of 12 cartoons of the prophet Muhammad... | |
| 18. Climate change - what Montreal prescribed to save the planet | December 15, 2005 |
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Big names make big speeches "We'll have a meeting like this in 40 years on a raft somewhere unless we do something about climate change... Let's agree on a set of projects... | |
| 19. Unleashing the EU's financial markets | June 16, 2005 |
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Two MEPs give their different views on how to boost the competitiveness of the financial services sector Obstacles to a single market are not caused by lack of legislation... | |
| 20. Pim's number one for Dutch | November 18, 2004 |
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DUTCH media have their onderbroek in a twist over a new television poll released this week that sought to name the greatest person in Dutch history. Was it Erasmus?... | |
