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...trend continues, former Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok suggested in a report to the European Council earlier this month, within a generation spiraling pension and health costs will bust European state budgets - and cripple the Continent's economic growth rate. Like Sweden and its Scandinavian neighbors, Britain, Ireland, France and the Netherlands are faring relatively well, with fertility rates above 1.7. Yet nowhere in the European Union does fertility approach 2.1, the level needed to keep the population stable. "A people that doesn't have children, that grows old, is a people without a future," says Tiziano Treu, a former...
...House,” says Samuels. There is an important distinction between the Celtic and the Irish; “ ‘Celtic’ is a convenient label for an actually much more diverse cultural grouping,” remarks Wallace, a native Londoner. The nations of Ireland, Scotland and Wales generally comprise the cultural regions collectively called “Celtic...
Even when I studied abroad in Ireland, Dyan followed me. My poetry teacher noticed that I had a Dylan quote as my email signature, and he immediately engaged the class in a discussion about whether Dylan lyrics were actually poetry. After class a group of us went to the “artsy” pub in town and kept talking. Once again, Bob had opened a door to new friendships...
...move toward independence by the ethnic Albanian majority. Kabul Kidnappings AFGHANISTAN In the first abductions of foreigners in Kabul in recent years, three workers for the U.N.-Afghan commission overseeing the Oct. 9 presidential vote count were snatched from a car. They were identified as Annetta Flanigan of Northern Ireland, Shqipe Habibi of Kosovo and Angelito Nayan of the Philippines. Responsibility for the abductions was claimed by a Taliban splinter group. Suffocation Inquiry THAILAND Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra pledged that an independent inquiry would investigate the deaths of 78 Muslim men who were crushed and suffocated to death in military...
...play,” Heaney says. “In the 1940s, when it was presented in France, it was very well received; the Germans liked it because it was a play about the power of the state, while to the French it was about personal liberty. And in Ireland, the ramifications were especially obvious for its own political situation...