On Wednesday it emerged that civil servants were being asked to act as airport border staff during the strike action.

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According to the agreed rules, citizens from all member states are supposed to act as international civil servants.

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Lord Neill would prefer the code to be enshrined in an act of Parliament to give civil servants more protection.

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Optimists say that with a growing cadre of elderly part-timers on small and unproductive plots of land, even the civil servants in the farm ministry will see that the system is unsustainable and be forced to act if only to save the sector on which their influence depends.

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In October, Mr Blair tried to explain his Third Way to senior civil servants by giving examples of ways in which it had helped the government find new ways to act.

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The Turkel Commission, empowered to ensure that senior civil servants are eligible for their offices, found that Galant's misappropriation of state lands was not a disqualifying act and approved his appointment.

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