Hard pact to follow: the Good Friday Agreement at 25
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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The famed power-sharing deal did its work of sharply reducing sectarian violence, but a quarter-century on it has led to depressingly dysfunctional politics. The next generation of vaccines is already on the way—and the first thing to do is get them out of the freezer. And why the long-frothy market for works by Pablo Picasso may at last be cooling.
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| 1:03.8 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:07.5 | I'm your host, Oire Ogunbe. |
| 1:09.9 | And I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 1:11.3 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:18.3 | As the COVID-19 pandemic raged, one of the biggest challenges for pharmaceuticals and governments |
| 1:24.9 | was figuring out how to safely get vaccines to all corners of the |
| 1:28.9 | world. Finally, some new inventions are about to make that process a little bit easier. |
| 1:36.5 | And there are really quite a lot of works by Pablo Picasso out there, and the market for them |
| 1:42.5 | has been frothy for decades. |
| 1:45.0 | But that market may well be cooling, not because buyers like the art less, but because of what |
| 1:50.3 | they think of the artist's ways. |
| 1:55.0 | First up, though. |
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