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Confronting problems multilaterally can be less than effective
By Eric Lyman in Rome
There are problems in the world that cannot be confronted with any success by a single state, no matter how powerful. Big environmental issues and world hunger and poverty immediately come to mind, along with many regional peacekeeping needs and most economic and trade-related problems.
Enter multilateralism, the consensus-driven process that democratically pulls countries together for collective problem solving, usually under the auspices of an umbrella organisation such as the United Nations or the World Trade Organisation.
Multilateralism has been hailed as the natural evolution from the bipolar world order that marked the period after World War II – with influence split between the camps of US and the Soviet Union – and the unipolar order based on the power and influence of the US since the end of the Cold War.…
BRITAIN AND IRELAND SIGN FUNCTIONAL AIRSPACE BLOCK DEAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN and Ireland have become the first European countries to sign an agreement creating a cross-border functional airspace block. The deal allows airlines to liaise with one set of air-traffic controllers when crossing Irish and British airspace, with the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) working with Britain’s Air Traffic Control Service (NATS).…
TOBACCO INDUSTRY SHOULD BE BLACKBALLED FROM HEALTH NEGOTIATIONS - HEARING SUGGESTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
HEALTH campaigners pressed politicians at a European Parliament hearing in Brussels to exclude the tobacco industry from debates where it could influence public health policies. Hosted by Irish Fine Gael MEP Avril Doyle and pressure group the Smoke Free Partnership, the hearing was addressed by new EU health Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou and attended by other senior MEPs.…
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION ROUND-UP: RESCUE PACKAGE FOR EU FISHERMEN DEBATED IN BRUSSELS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers are debating an urgent rescue package for a European fishing sector that is being buffeted by high fuel prices. European Commission officials are drafting formal proposals, which would suspend certain European Fisheries Fund subsidy controls for two years.…
MALAWI TOBACCO BARN GLOBAL WARMING FEATURE
BY BILL CORCORAN, in Lilongwe, Malawi
A NEW initiative to improve the health, wealth and environment of Africans is being driven by the Kyoto Protocol’s international trades in carbon credits. This allows wealthy developed countries to scale back their emission reductions, if they can invest in slashing greenhouse gas pollution abroad.…
Brussels mourns EU pioneer
David Haworth, in BrusselsWith the return to power in Rome of Silvio Berlusconi, Noisy Politics will also make a reappearance in the corridors of European Union power. The age of celebrity is such that it’s easy to overlook the possibility of a modest, exemplary life of achievement in what is often reviled as a “grubby trade”.Outside Ireland, the recent passing of at 85 of Dr. P.J. Hillery – “Paddy” to his friends -was little noticed yet his achievements as a statesman were huge.
The son of a country doctor, he became a general practitioner himself but slipped, unobtrusively at first, into Irish politics.…
IRISH FISHERMEN WIN RIGHT TO REPLACE FISHING BOATS LOST AT SEA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling has swept away a European Commission block on Irish fishermen replacing ships lost at sea with larger and safer vessels. Brussels had been resisting plans of Ocean Trawlers Ltd, of Killybegs; Thomas Flaherty, of Mainster; and Larry Murphy, of Brandyhill; all in Ireland, to replace sunk vessels.…
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION ROUND-UP - RUSSIAN AND EU BOOST FISHING COOPERATION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IMPROVED cooperation between fisheries authorities in the European Union (EU) and Russia is to be established, following the signing of a memorandum of understanding between Brussels and Moscow. The deal covers fishing grounds in the Baltic and the north Atlantic and involves better contacts between the European Commission and Russia’s state committee for fisheries.…
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PUSHES FOR MORE ACTIVE EU AFRICA RESEARCH COOPERATION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has pushed for more concrete collaboration between African and European Union (EU) researchers, amidst concerns that grand declarations of altruistic intentions are failing to deliver cash or expertise.
A formal resolution passed by parliament members (MEPs) called for a "special emphasis [to] be placed on research into AIDS in African countries" within the EU’s ongoing seventh framework programme on research, which commands a huge Euro 53.2 billion budget, nearly three times the total GDP of Kenya.…
BRITAIN OPPOSES PIGMEAT EXPORT REFUNDS DESPITE PORK PRODUCER DEMOS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BRITISH government has opposed Polish government proposals for introducing export refunds to promote European Union (EU) pigmeat sales abroad, despite recent London demonstrations by UK pork producers. Around 200 pig rearers picketed the 10 Downing Street residence of prime minister Gordon Brown earlier this month, protesting at low prices paid by supermarkets.…