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...summit ended in acrimony and mutual recrimination. Blair ruled out any change to the j5.2 billion annual rebate Britain receives from Brussels unless spending on agriculture, which accounts for more than 40% of the total E.U. budget, was revised - a proposal Chirac flatly rejected. Bertie Ahern, the Irish Prime Minister, called the budget debate "pathetic and embarrassing." Luxembourg's Prime Minister, Jean-Claude Juncker, who chaired the summit, said: "Europe is not in crisis. It is in a profound crisis...
...unanimous motion demanding that they be allowed to return, and hundreds of residents marched in a demonstration during which the leader of the Irish Senate declared her support. Posters still hang in shop windows on Athlone's main street, showing a three-year-old photograph of Prime Minister Bertie Ahern embracing the women at an election rally, alongside the plea, bring them back. The families are living in a slum in Lagos, and are often too upset to speak on the phone, people in Athlone say. "We're not going to give in on this," says Frank Young, a retired...
...without charge. Sinn Fein's chief negotiator, Martin McGuinness, claimed he didn't know the man. Minutes later, they were shown on TV chatting together at an election event. After years of nurturing Northern Ireland 's peace process by ignoring I.R.A. activity on the margins, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern is out of patience. The peace process is going nowhere, he says, until Sinn Fein becomes a purely political organization. And that means the I.R.A. has to make a clean break from crime. - By Chris Thornton Bank Order SWITZERLAND The Supreme Court ordered the return to Nigeria of $458 million...
Funny how peace slips away. Two months ago, Northern Ireland seemed on the brink of a final settlement. Then the Irish Republican Army was accused of carrying out a $50 million bank robbery in Belfast. Finally, last week, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart, Bertie Ahern, said further progress would be impossible until the I.R.A. winds up its activities - and the group responded with an angry statement saying Blair and Ahern were "making a mess of the peace process. Do not underestimate the seriousness of the situation." There's no sign the I.R.A. is planning to return...
...announced a decade ago. The I.R.A. refused, saying Paisley would use the pictures to "humiliate" them. The standoff was particularly frustrating for British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who has been to Belfast 33 times in seven years trying to secure a deal. Still, Blair and Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern got Paisley and Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.'s political allies, to agree on previously hot issues like policing. Solving the stalemate may be tricky, but even Paisley, a die-hard unionist, has a reason to cut a deal: if his party confirms him as Northern Ireland's First Minister...