Kate Ironside

Iceland piles on the pressure

Monday, March 08, 2010

OLAFUR Ragnar Grimsson is piling on the pressure.

The President of Iceland is determined to negotiate the most favourable terms possible for a fresh deal between his country and the UK and the Netherlands over the repayment of British and Dutch money lost when...

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Nigel Farage seriously doesn't do himself any favours

Thursday, March 04, 2010

Nigel Farage seriously doesn't do himself any favours. Does the UKIP MEP really think that he adds to the quality of debate by descending to...

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Eurozone faces real crisis

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

IS THE eurozone in the process of meeting its Nemesis in the shape of the Greek financial crisis? The dangers are stark. Unless the crisis is...

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Dutch disarray impacts on Nato

Monday, February 22, 2010

THE Dutch government has collapsed in disarray. Its ruling coaltion has broken apart. And all over Afghanistan. It split over pressure from...

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Athens is on its own

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

SO what the blazes to do about Greece? EU leaders are meeting later this week to chew the economic cud. The key question is how to get all of...

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Football fan needs fair tiral

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

FOOTBALL fan Garry Mann is resisting attempts by the Portuguese to extradite from the UK using the fast track European Arrest Warrant. In the...

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Time to break free from subsidies?

Friday, January 29, 2010

TOO often people assume that landowners and farmers are one and the same. That is not true.They may overlap but they are distinctly different...

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German troops sorely needed

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

GERMANY has little enthusiasm for Afghanistan. Voters repeatedly balk at any notion of contributing more troops. Their crisis of conscience...

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She wasn't up for the job

Friday, January 22, 2010

POLTICAL allies say she withdrew because of wounds to her honour. Poppycock. Bulgaria's nominee for the new European Commission Rumiana Jeleva...

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Holding a nation to ransom

Thursday, January 07, 2010

BOTH the UK and the Netherlands are in danger of becoming seriously vindictive. We should back off now and give Iceland some space. The idea that we...

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