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Ex Senator Deirdre De Burca on Michael Casey Article

Having followed the ongoing public debate on Ireland’s massive debt crisis, I welcomed Michael Casey’s recent opinion piece “Increasing money supply can halt deflationary cycle” published in the Irish Times (14/4/11). [...]

€11 million compensation for Turf Cutters

In order to stop turfcutting on protected sites the State will spend more than €11 million compensating turf cutters.

Slimmed down AEOS

If you don’t have a Special Area of Conservation or Special Protection Area on your land it looks like you may lose your place on a slimmed-down version of the AEOS scheme. [...]

Mediation group for Turf cutters

The Government has announced a new turf-cutting mediation body and promised details of a compensation scheme in response to a European infringement action against Ireland for failing to protect raised…[...]

EU Commissioner insists CAP reform must embrace environmental agenda

Janez Potočnik says EU farming subsidies must drive greener practices for policy to remain legitimate
By Will Nichols 16 Mar 2011 Click here for full article.

Reforming the EU’s controversial Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) will only prove successful if…

Steve Keen on Krugman on Minsky

Steve Keen’s critique of Krugman attempting to learn from Minsky is a verbal attack parallel to a trap sprung by a waiting spider when the clueless fly lands on her web. Steve Keen has developed his web over many years using Minsky as his inspiration and teacher. His main point is that Krugman ignores all [...]

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