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The article reports on the goal of the New Hanseatic League alliance of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Sweden to create reforms to the European Union (EU). Topics discussed include the impact of Brexit on the alliance, France and Germany's common economic position forming the basis for the package of reforms in the EU and the alliance's recruitment of Slovakia to sign its paper on the sovereign bail-out fund.

Focuses on works included in the exhibition, `The Barry Joule Archive: Works on Paper Attributed to Francis Bacon,' at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin through August 2000. Joule's relationship to Bacon and acquisition of the previously unseen works; Authenticity; Assessment.

The article looks at a 2012 investigation into British involvement in the 1989 assassination of Catholic solicitor Pat Finucane by the loyalist gang Ulster Defence Association (UDA). Topics include papers that detail how British intelligence officers helped plan and British agents in the UDA helped commit Finucane's assassination, British Prime Minister David Cameron's adroitness in admitting British wrongs against Ireland, and how the situation in Ireland has improved since 1989.

The article discusses the role of Irish politicians such as Gerry Adams, the leader of Sinn Fein, in the peace process in Northern Ireland. Adams is busy writing memoirs: life in the modest streets of Catholic west Belfast, occasionally fictionalized and with some immodest use of recycled speeches. There is no mention of his years at the top of the IRA--an organization that he now hints should be disbanded. His fellow republican Martin McGuinness used to be the IRA's chief of staff. Now he looks forward to the day when it devotes itself solely to tending graves. The best-known republican writer is Danny Morrison. He once urged the rank and file to drive the British out of Ireland with the "Armalite and the ballot-box". Now his weapon is the pen. On the other side of the divide, Ian Paisley, the leader of the hard-line Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), has no discernible leisure interests apart from hell and damnation. His party has gone from fire-breathing outsider to the main representative of the province's Unionist majority. It's exchanging papers with the British government about negotiations next month on restoring devolved government. It is the party's ambitious deputy leader, Peter Robinson, who really wants a deal. That would mean less time to indulge his enthusiasm for 1970s-style clothes, and his passionate interest in breeding Koi carp in heated pools in his garden.