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We can all breathe a sigh of relief that the US Administration and Congress have agreed a financial bail-out for the ravaged financial services industry.  Whether or not it will succeed remains to be seen, but no deal would have been disastrous.

Over the past 20 years, one has seen the development of the European Union into an organisation not seen often in history, that of a confederation. A confederation, a union favouring the rights of its member states over the power of a centralised government retains the advantages of individual member

Note: There is a print link embedded within this post, please visit this post to print it. EC4333, Economics of European Integration Module Outline, Autumn 2008 Lecturer Dr. Stephen Kinsella stephen.kinsella@ul.ie, office hours by appointment only. TA Neal Kilbane neal.kilbane@ul.ie, office hours TBA.

Scoopit! Why can they not tear down the barriers? Philip Stephen has a thoughtful article in the FT on the failure, or stalling as he puts it of the Doha Round. He thinks the parties were wearing blindfolds. Adam thinks it was more a case of demonstrating the truth of the saying ‘there are none so blind as those who will not see’.

“Taking stock” in Brussels June 23rd, 2008 by Cathryn Cluver Only a week after the resounding Irish ‘No’, EU leaders faced the difficult task of formulating a response at a weekend summit that was slated to address the rather mundane issues of governing an almost unwieldy Union of 27.

There are fairly small groups of vehement and vocal anti-EU campaigners, but they resonate with varying proportions of national electorates hostile to or suspicious of ‘Brussels’, although profound indifference towards the European Union is probably the prevalent mood, equally frustrating for the anti-EU crowd as for Europhiles.

‘International’ redefined A great article by Simon Jenkins, published May 30,2008 in the Guardian - GAZING briefly at the Eurovision song contest this week I could not rid my mind of a quite different image, that of Nato’s multilateral force headquarters in Kabul.

Central European Bank’s experts have estimated the prerequisites for the introduction of the euro also in Bulgaria. read more