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...lost for Blair. Here's one fulsome tribute: "Tony Blair has all the right credentials." Unfortunately, that endorsement comes from Italy's embattled leader Silvio Berlusconi. Another supporter is Ireland's former Premier, Bertie Ahern. "Tony's a good friend of mine, and I'd like to see him get [the job] if he really wants it. I'm positive that he does," says Ahern, adding, "Tony is not going to walk into this without a lot of stuff going on in the background. There will be games going on." (Read a Q&A with Bertie Ahern...
...Ireland has changed dramatically during your time in politics. If you go back to the mid-'80s, unemployment was 20%. The debt-GDP ratio was higher than Ethiopia's. Emigration was massive. The new Irish [immigrants] were 1% of the workforce. Before this recession we got to full employment, 7% growth every year. Most of the young Irish that wanted to came back. The working population of the new Irish is now 15%. We've been able to put huge money into infrastructure, to attract foreign direct investment to set up new industries. We brought in legislation decriminalizing...
...more skeptical. They're far more questioning. People now say 'If we go further in European integration, what will we lose and what will we gain?' [In the Lisbon Treaty referendum] people thought about investment more; they said, 'Why do we have all these companies in Ireland?' The reason is because we're part of Europe. We still get a great share of foreign direct investment. In U.S. investment round the world, Ireland gets more than China. When the argument comes down to hard facts, people say, 'We're in Europe...
...Bertie Ahern: The Autobiography is out now in the U.K. and Ireland...
...Watch TIME's Video "An evening with Ireland's last matchmaker...