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"The net effect of this [agency capture], says Joseph Curtin of the Institute of International and European Affairs, is that the common good is the big loser when special interests hold court. For Ireland, he argues, this manifests itself as “a congenital inability to think strategically”."
"Climate law must freeze out vested interests" - Joseph Curtin on agenda- setting in climate change policy - Irish Times - 2 July 2009
"In a lecture on 'The Europe We Need', delivered at the Institute of International and European Affairs in Dublin yesterday, he said: “We are launched on big and stormy seas. We need a bigger and better boat, and there are also still some monsters in the deep."
"Lisbon 'needed for stormy seas' of fiscal crisis" - Timothy Garton Ash speaks at the IIEA - Irish Times - 24th June 2009
"Former Icelandic Prime Minister Geir H. Haarde visited Ireland last week with bad news for the ‘Celtic Tiger’, saying its economy will shrink more than Iceland’s this year. According to the Irish Independent, Haarde spoke at the Institute of European Affairs in Dublin, where he said that EU membership would not have saved Iceland’s banking sector last autumn and that proposed EU financial reforms now do not go far enough to prevent a future collapse."
"Haarde in Dublin: Ireland worse than Iceland"- Geir Haarde speaks to the IIEA - Ice News - 22nd June 2009
"Mr Haarde warned proposed EU reforms of the banking sector don't go far enough and won't prevent further crises. "The EU will have to do a lot of work on financial regulation," Mr Haarde said in a speech at the Institute of European Affairs.
"Irish GDP will shrink faster than Iceland's, says ex-PM" - Geir Haarde speaks to the IIEA - The Independent - 19th June 2009
“I think we could pull ourselves out of the recession without applying for membership. In any event, applying for membership, let alone seeking the Euro, is a matter of time. It will take several years.” --Geir Haarde, before speaking to the Institute of International and European Affairs
Geir Haarde Former Icelandic PM in Dublin address (skip to 22 minutes past) - Morning Ireland - 18th June 2009
"Treaty expert Peadar O Broin of the Irish Institute of European Affairs said the format so far is following the Danish model when they opted out of defence and justice in 1992. Only later in 1997 did it become a protocol attached to the Amsterdam treaty. Even without treaty status, it would be a strong document as it would have the political support of all member states and would be binding in international law..."
"EU ambassadors approve Lisbon guarantees for Ireland" - Peadar O Broin on the Treaty of Lisbon - Irish Examiner - 17th June 2009
"Brendan Halligan, the chairman of Sustainable Energy Ireland, believes the social partners have not yet quite internalised the green agenda but are close to doing so. "The Irish system is very peculiar," he said. "It takes time but when it decides to do something it does it, and it does it well.""
"Emerald Isle plots green revolution" - IIEA work on Agriculture - The Guardian - 14th June 2009
"The campaigns “have been very national in character. they’ve been fought quite largely on domestic issues and the domestic economic situation,” said Joseph Curtin, a senior researcher at the Institute of International and European Affairs in Dublin. "
"Merkel, Sarkozy Win EU Vote, Easing Stimulus Pressure" - Joseph Curtin on European Parliament Elections - Bloomberg - 7th June 2009