Dublin’s Phoenix Park: Ireland’s historical heritage

Dublin’s Phoenix Park is located 2.5 km west of Dublin City. With a boundary stone wall of 11 km and 22 km of roads, at 707 hectares the park is one of the largest enclosed recreational and leisure spaces within any European capital city. It has been managed as a National Historical Park since its...

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The new geopolitics of trade and the collapse of the mini-ministerial at the WTO: was it "only" about the Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM)? By Mariarosaria Iorio, International Political Analyst, Head of the IGTN Geneva Office

I. The geo-political context The collapse of the negotiations of the WTO mini-ministerial (21-31 July 2008) reflects the new geopolitics of the world economy. The emerging economies with a large portion of their population employed in agriculture have been at the heart of the negotiating processes, and have put at the forefront another way of...

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