Robin Wilson
Not many across Europe would feel they had much to learn from the tiny region of Northern Ireland after its latest outburst of rioting. Yet Mark Mazower did not not title his history of 20th-century Europe
Dark Continent flippantly and Northern Ireland provides a perennial dark warning to Europe not to look the other way but to travel in the opposite direction.
That, 23 years on from the ‘historic’ Belfast agreement, the region has failed to consign to history its troubled past suggests that profound underlying frailties remain. And there are three each stretching way out from the petrol bombs and ‘peace walls’ of Belfast to gnaw at the fragile Europe of postwar reconstruction.
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Author: Michel Jebrak professeur emerite en ressources minerales, Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM), Jack-Pierre Piguet Professeur, Laboratoire GeoRessources, Universite de Lorraine and Yann Gunzburger Professeur des universites, laboratoire GeoRessources, Universite de Lorraine
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