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Latest Articles in 'Europe'
- We are all sceptics now - 22/11/2012An interesting debate unfolds about how Labour should square its support for the European Union with its criticism of many of the most important EU policies. Its recent support for...
- By John Parry Review of “The Council of Europe” by Martyn Bond (Routledge Global Institutions Series, price £75 hardback) It was summer 1949. In the village of Le Hohwald, tucked...
- If you’re not at the table, you’re part of the menu - 22/02/2012By Patrick Mc Nally Is it so radical? January 2012, another European Summit and yet another treaty. A treaty that Germany wants but the other 26 countries do not. The...
Latest Blog Entries
- Proved right on press regulation - 18/03/2013This blog has not expected to be proved right so quickly on press regulation, but that’s what happened today. At the end of last year, when the Leveson commission published...
- Trade war over gambling - 30/01/2013International trade disputes often shine a light on odd behaviour, and the dispute between the United States and the tiny Caribbean island country Antigua and Barbuda is no exception. Originally...
- The wrong conclusion on welfare reform - 24/01/2013In his speech on Europe yesterday, David Cameron observed that Europe, with seven per cent of the world’s population and 25 per cent of world GDP, accounts for 50 per...
Ireland Archive
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If you’re not at the table, you’re part of the menu
Posted on 22/02/2012 | No CommentsBy Patrick Mc Nally Is it so radical? January 2012, another European Summit and yet another treaty. A treaty that Germany wants but the other 26 countries do not. The treaty’s final text is an acknowledgment of German dominance in Europe rather than an acceptance... -
A view from the other side
Posted on 19/12/2011 | No CommentsBy Patrick Mc Nally The mood is subdued. This is an underwhelming summit deal. The summit failed to deliver a decisive result in favour of the single currency and has made a grave problem more difficult by embarking on a new institutional debate over the... -
Meltdown
Posted on 05/12/2011 | No CommentsThis will be the situation if the markets are disappointed by the decisions of the European Council on 9 December. If this happens the market will probably sell every euro denominated asset. We can only hope that the worst case scenario can be avoided. Just... -
Nearing the end of the euro crisis, one way or another
Posted on 21/10/2011 | No CommentsIt looks as if we have reached the endgame in the eurozone crisis, writes Patrick Mc Nally. The G20 countries are very concerned at European leaders’ failure to solve the crisis and for allowing it to develop into a global crisis. It is clear that... -
Endgame?
Posted on 12/09/2011 | No CommentsThere are two questions being asked here, writes Patrick Mc Nally from Ireland. Are we reaching the endgame of the eurozone crisis and the possible demise of Angela Merkel as chancellor of Germany. Angela Merkel has had two terms as chancellor of Germany, and at... -
Ireland: is there a way forward?
Posted on 03/06/2011 | 1 CommentBy Patrick Mc Nally It is now some months since we have had a change of government. Already the old regime has faded into the mists of history. The voters have decided and punished the outgoing government for their mismanagement of the economy and are... -
Hang out your brightest colours
Posted on 21/03/2011 | No CommentsIt is now over two weeks since we have had a change of government here and in the meantime a special meeting of eurozone leaders has taken place to discuss a modified Competitiveness Pact to support the euro. This report will reflect an Irish view... -
Europe and the Irish Election
Posted on 02/03/2011 | No CommentsBy Patrick Mc Nally I thought that you might be interested on the impact that Europe is having on the current election here in Ireland. The eurozone crisis has awakened a sleeping giant that of politicisation by fuelling the feeling that there is a democratic... -
The Irish crisis – scale is everything
Posted on 23/11/2010 | 1 CommentStephanie Flanders argues on the BBC website that the biggest difference between the economic crises in the UK and Ireland is that the UK has its own currency while Ireland does not. “Robert Peston is right to remind us that Britain’s mistakes, in the boom... -
Ireland and the euro
Posted on 16/10/2010 | No CommentsLetter in the Spectator, 16 October 2010 Allister Heath may be right that Ireland experienced lower interest rates over the last ten years than was beneficial as a result of euro membership, (“The Irish problem”, 9 October) but it is not true that the Irish...
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