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Merkel and Barroso promote compliant Irish Government (Updated) | 28 comments (28 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
The technocratic agenda (4.00 / 2)
A significant meme, especially within FG, has been the promotion of a technocratic over a political agenda, including proposals to give key government departments to those with 'relevant expertise'.  This is of a piece with the establishment of a local comprador elite to implement EU policy.

However, I can't see how any of this is going to stave off the next round of European bank / sovereign insolvencies; so whoever is elected in our little spasm of token representative democracy will have a tiger by the tail.

I fantasize that this might be a FG/FF coalition, possibly finishing both the civil war parties off in one go.

by Pope Epopt on Thu Feb 17th, 2011 at 08:39:59 AM EST

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Merkel and Barroso promote compliant Irish Government (Updated) | 28 comments (28 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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