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Voters Left Out of EU Reform Plans - Vincent Browne, Irish Times

There are increasing signs of indifference at the top of the EU over democratic procedures THE CASE being taken by Thomas Pringle TD on the fiscal treaty and the European Stabi...

Ratcheting Up the Euro Crisis - Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest

'Crisis in the eurozone' stories are getting boring and this is one two year old soap opera the world would just as soon see disappear. Nevertheless it grinds on; yesterday the G...

Who's Your Daddy? Germany, Apparently - Fintan O'Toole, Irish Times

"One way of putting the referendum that I like is that Brussels and Germany are the mother and father of the EU and the rest of the countries are kids. And some kids spend the mone...

EU's Bigger Deficit Is Democratic - Patrick Smyth, Irish Times

WE ARE in the process – painfully, haltingly – of addressing the central deficiency in Europe’s single currency. The vote on the fiscal treaty represents Ireland...

Vatican Loud on Liberals But Silent on Abuse - Fintan O'Toole, Irish Times

An institution so stupid that it thinks its Irish faithful is more scandalised by Brian D'Arcy than by Brendan Smyth is not worth anyone's anger. It is doing a far better job of ...

Europe's Growth Challenge - Lawrence Summers, Washington Post

Unfortunately, Europe has misdiagnosed its problems in important respects and set the wrong strategic course. Outside of Greece, which represents only 2 percent of the euro zone,...

Germany vs. the 'Growth Bloc' - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Daily Telegraph

For two years Germany has had its way in Europe, treating historic nations much as Bismarck treated Bavaria - sovereign only in name....

Growth Trumps Austerity in Europe - Brendan Keenan, Irish Independent

Putting the issue of growth back on the table will be the key to any economic recovery in Europe....

Looking to Life after Sarkozy - Irish Times

The imminent prospect of a change of regime in Paris also has the potential to revive dimensions of a social Europe that are in danger of being lost in the climate of economic st...

We Need Answers from Sinn Fein - Irish Independent

A new opinion poll, which shows that Sinn Fein has overtaken Labour to become the second most popular party in the state, is the latest manifestation of the political upheaval gene...

Cheer Up, Ireland - We Could Be Greece - Fintan O'Toole, Irish Times

I was listening last week to RTÉ’s economics correspondent, Seán Whelan, analysing his own very interesting interview with one of our rulers, Joerg Asmussen, the German member ...

Ireland Faces a Momentous EU Treaty Vote - Gavin Barrett, Irish Times

On Tuesday the Government fixed the date for the referendum on the fiscal treaty, an event of potentially momentous significance for the political and economic future of this State...

Troubled Ireland Needs More Than Luck - Carl Schramm, Wall St. Journal

It's sometimes said that everyone's a bit Irish on St. Patrick's Day. But this St. Patrick's Day the Irish economy wouldn't turn anyone green with envy. Unemployment is near 15%...

Ireland's Day on the World Stage - Irish Times

The need to promote Ireland as an investment location and to encourage foreign purchases of Irish goods and services has never been greater. As the domestic economy struggles out...

Irish Lessons for Dealing With China - Kevin Rafferty, Japan Times

When China's leader-in-waiting Vice President Xi Jinping visited Washington, he was awarded all the paraphernalia of respect, with meters of red carpet, a gun salute, fanfare, glit...

Why Do Americans Fantasize About Ireland? - Donald Clarke, Irish Times

For the most part, the real Irish play along. We smile tolerantly when the likes of John Huston establish rural mansions and make like returning exiles. We generously accept cheq...

A Decisive Moment for Ireland in Europe - Carsten Volkery, Der Spiegel

Tuesday was a good day for democracy, but a bad one for German Chancellor Angela Merkel. First, Germany's Federal Constitutional Court declared the panel of lawmakers set up to ap...

A Crucial Referendum in Ireland - Irish Times

The Taoiseach rightly cast it as an essential building block in Ireland's recovery, a set of necessary disciplines for all the euro countries to which we had already committed ou...

Opening the Door to China - Irish Times

CHINESE VICE-PRESIDENT Xi Jinping’s visit to Ireland is a major event in this country’s international agenda and provides a real opportunity to deepen relations with th...

What Did Churchill Really Think About Ireland? - Paul Bew, Irish Times

WINSTON CHURCHILL made his first public appearance in Ireland in 1878. In 1877 Disraeli had sent his family into a form of internal exile – the Duke of Marlborough was appoin...

Why Is Ireland Up in Arms Over a Soft Treaty? - Gavin Barrett, Irish Times

The treaty's core consists of debt and deficit rules. However, its preamble provides that the treaty is not to be interpreted in any way as altering the economic policy condition...

Northern Ireland Boasts Best Wellbeing in UK - Gallup

Residents of Northern Ireland have higher overall wellbeing than those in England, Scotland, or Wales, according to Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index data from 2011. Wales had the...

Euro Treaty Would Bind Future Irish Gov'ts - Arthur Beesley, Irish Times

It is one thing, of course, to submit to the unforgiving writ of the troika in an emergency situation in which the State is shut out of private debt markets. It is quite another ...

Subdued Irish PM Faces Storm at Home - Deaglan de Breadun, Irish Times

With the Coalition looking more like its predecessor every day, public could use EU poll to express unhappiness....

Ireland's Smart Approach to the Eurozone - Paul Gillespie, Eurozine

Scenarios of survival, transformation and collapse are being written for the euro as the European Union's single currency faces, from January 2011, into its period of most fateful ...

Scotland's UK 'Divorce' & Ireland's Future - Mary Kenny, Irish Independent

Sport often reveals true feelings about national loyalties. When the Scots watch an international game, their allegiance is usually to "anyone but England". But when Rangers play C...

Ireland's Fateful Choice: Europe or Britain - Paul Gillespie, Irish Times

IF FOREIGN policy has to do with protecting and enhancing a sovereign state’s interests and values in its relations with the rest of the world, Ireland faces a major challeng...

Leaving Euro Would Be Disaster for Ireland - Brian Hayes, Irish Indy

Leaving a currency union and establishing an independent currency is not something that can happen at the flick of a switch. It would take months of planning and preparation. It ...

The Case Builds for Scottish Independence - Paul Gillespie, Irish Times

A UK break-up would have far-reaching political repercussions in England and here....

Europe's Democratic Deficit - Meghan Kelly, Bertelsmann Foundation

The European Union has a democratic deficit. Public discontent with European institutions has led member-state leaders to limit popular engagement in EU affairs. Ironically, thi...

The Real Euro Divide Is North vs. South - Gideon Rachman, Financial Times

As ratification problems mount, against a background of economic stagnation or worse, last week's clear picture of an isolated UK and a Europe pushing towards unity will become m...

Frankfurt's Difficulty Is Ireland's Opportunity - Fintan O'Toole, Irish Times

We have one last chance. Europe is up in the air. It will land and take shape over the next three months. Within that period, the Government has a final opportunity to lift the m...

Why the Irish Control Aviation - Tom Geoghegan, BBC News

The sight of airline bosses Willie Walsh and Michael O'Leary teaming up recently to urge the UK to scrap air passenger duties was a reminder of how the UK's airline industry is dom...

Has the Crisis Killed an Irish Party? - John Waters, Irish Times

IS IT possible that the party ultimately to be decimated arising from the present economic crisis will not be Fianna Fáil but Fine Gael? There is growing evidence to support...

Quietly Suffering Ireland Wins German Praise - Marco Evers, Der Spiegel

Ireland embraced tough austerity with no fire bombs in the street. ...

Ireland's Unwise Vatican Exit - Deaglan de Breadun, Irish Times

Given the deep roots of Catholicism in Ireland, is it worth taking the risk of offending a large swathe of opinion....

Basque Peace Move an Essential Step - Gerry Adams, CNN

The decisive and positive terms of ETA's response to Monday's "Declaration" in Donostia-San Sebastian by the International Conference group is to be welcomed, as is the response ...

Ireland's Pointless Presidential Election - Fintan O'Toole, Irish Times

It is wrong in a real democracy to ask the people to vote and then to treat their choice like a child. And it is wrong to expect someone distinguished enough to serve in the offi...

Franco/German Fix Needs Accountability - Brendan Keenan, Irish Indy

It all seemed very odd, yet vaguely familiar. The German coalition's equivalent of the Tanaiste, Free Democrat leader Phillip Roesler, was going to Paris to present his ideas for d...

Could Former IRA Man Lead Ireland? - Conor O'Clery, Global Post

A former commander of the outlawed Irish Republican Army has created a political earthquake in Ireland by entering the campaign for president of the Irish Republic — with an outs...

There May Be Trouble Ahead in Northern Ireland - Neill Lochery, WSJ

Beneath the surface, tensions continue to simmer in Ulster....

Ireland's Unexpected Comeback - Dave Vines & Max Watson, Financial Times

An Irish success story of the kind we think is underway will come to be seen as a precious and crucial trump card for the eurozone debt strategy....

Europe's Social Democracies Have Failed - Bret Stephens, Wall St. Journal

Europe is not a happy place and hasn't been for nearly a generation. It's about to get much worse....

Can Ireland Lead the Euro Recovery? - Tina Kaiser & Tobias Kaiser, Time

In the face of a drying up of private investment, the Irish had to pump $100 billion, or 45% of their yearly economic output, into their rickety financial sector. So the recent i...

Europe's Banking Crisis Next to Imperil U.S. - Bruce Stokes, Fiscal Times

While Washington grapples with a credit downgrade and market turmoil, the Euro crisis has returned with a fury. Just weeks after Europe fashioned yet another plan to avoid a Gre...

Getting the Euro Back on Track - Irish Times

These major elements of greater economic integration must be brought together into a coherent design if the euro is to retain credibility. German leaders are now convinced that i...

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