Thanks for all the feedback on my last post. And thanks to the guys at IrishElection for linking in. Glad you found it worth a read. Next up is Lisbon and NAMA. I suport both though with slight qualifications in each case. I think NAMA is going to work and Continue Reading →
The grid across the Med and beyond (Disclaimer – this post was written on holidays and I’ve revived it now – could be a case of too much sun in every sense) Finally another pan-European story that caught my eye this week (great thing about being on hols, having the Continue Reading →
I am posting today from the far off Tuscan hills and my first challenge is to master the Italian keyboard (Unsucessfully I might add so forgive the missing apostrophes scattered throughout this post).. One tends to forget the glaringly obvious when home, i.e. that the internet is indeed global. Of Continue Reading →
The above is partly tongue in cheek, but it was an argument I heard from a despairing Yes campaigner in the aftermath of Friday’s Lisbon results. The logic is that the EU’s only chance of survival in an increasingly big boy’s pool, is to assume superpower status itself by closer Continue Reading →
When the European Union began a process of enlargement, it was realised the procedures which served 6 member states in the 1950’s would have to be adapted to accommodate now 27 member states in 2008. Many of the streamlining procedures were already agreed in the Nice treaty, what is at Continue Reading →