Eurozone crisis update: From the analytical to the hysterical
Alex Hern rounds up commentators’ responses to the latest developments in the eurozone crisis.
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Time to move beyond the eurozone
It’s time to set out the agenda for a managed but clear process for Greece, followed by other countries, to secede from European Monetary Union and the eurozone.
World should have acted faster to tackle East Africa food crisis
Richard Miller, Executive Director of anti-poverty charity ActionAid, on how the international community could have done more to forsee the Horn of Africa emergency.
EU ministers shut the door on North African refugee crisis
Ben Fox reports from Brussels on the lurch to the right among European Union home affairs ministers, who are threatening to close the door on North African refugees.
Demographic expert: Tunisia may be ready for democracy, Egypt probably isn’t
The model does indicate that there are grounds for optimism in Tunisia. The proportion of its working age adults who are young adults is xxx, which translates to a probability of liberal democracy of 0.48, or around one in two, similar to Chile’s probability as it democratised. Meanwhile Egypt, with its young-adult proportion of 0.48, translates to a probability of liberal democracy of 0.31 – less than one in three.
Egypt: What will happen if the Muslim Brotherhood seize power?
All trains and internal state-airline flights across Egypt have been cancelled ahead of calls for a million-strong march in Cairo tomorrow, reports Seph Brown.
Ireland on the brink: Time for the Second Republic?
Twenty four months into its economic crisis and Ireland is finally beginning to address the fundamental issues that caused its national disaster, starting with the unique Irish mentality and its parochial political system.