Prime Minister David Cameron lost a symbolically important vote on Europe in the British parliament last week. It’s another setback for the U.K.’s perpetually strained relationship with the European Union and a sign... more ››
In the midst of the gravest economic crisis in the European Union’s history, the European Commission is proposing a five per cent budget rise for 2014-20. This, as we have argued, is an absurd piece of featherbedding. Yet... more ››
Possible changes in the wider world likely to make the international environment less benign for Ireland than in recent decades were assessed here last week. But what about the issues surrounding the most likely major change... more ››
The level of interest in this U.S. election, is considerably lower than that of 2008. One reason for this may be that any global citizen tuning in to the campaign’s foreign policy debate would have struggled to find... more ››
The common European currency was born out of idealism (which didn’t extend to its sadly unimaginative name) and economic reasoning. That mix was necessary to launch so ambitious a project. Unfortunately the ratio of the... more ››