Tagged with: Fiscal Stability Treaty
Our problem is not the EU - our problem is ourselves
Colm O'Doherty 29/05/2012
Colm O'Doherty: Earlier this year, in Davos, Enda Kenny spoke about moral failure and its responsibility for our economic crash. He said that easy access to credit had spawned greed to a point where it just went out of control completely and ended with a spectacular crash. There was an immediate outcry in Ireland on foot of his comments and he was …
Will the Fiscal Treaty Cost Us?
Michael Taft 08/05/2012
Michael Taft: Will the Fiscal Treaty – in particular, the notorious structural deficit rule – require additional austerity? John McHale of the …
The Fiscal Compact - crisis resolution?
Tom McDonnell 03/05/2012
Tom McDonnell: Sebastian Dullien has a useful piece on the Fiscal Compact over at the Social Europe Journal. Sebastian correctly argues that none of …
Terrence McDonough on the Fiscal Treaty
02/05/2012
IRELAND MAY well need a second bailout after 2013. And as treaties are currently worded, a No vote on the fiscal compact treaty will forbid us from …
Ireland's financing alternatives - the EFSF
Michael Taft, Tom McDonnell 24/04/2012
Tom McDonnell and Michael Taft: In our first post, we outlined some of Ireland’s financing alternatives; namely through the IMF and the European …
Michael O'Sullivan on the European project
30/03/2012
Michael O'Sullivan, author of 'Ireland and the Global question', has an interesting opinion piece in today's Financial Times.
Dishonesty and the 'structural deficit'
Michael Burke 26/03/2012
Michael Burke: An article in the Irish Times by Stephen Collins which asserts that the new Treaty “seeks to do is to put an end to the kind of …
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