We are back to the Brexit issue again, no surprise! Indeed, it is no surprise when we see how we are bungling forward to the ultimate fudge of the century. We are now getting near the date when both the EU and UK should agree on the final terms of Brexit, but matters are […]
Allow me to be a little parochial, for a moment
The Irish banking crisis may be a little parochial, but the Irish government’s reluctance to act immediately on the EU money laundering directive is indicative of the relations between Brussels and the national parliament. Let’s take a recent concrete example of the 2015 anti-money laundering directive, which has lain dormant in the corridors of […]
“It won’t cut mustard’
It is an expression I haven’t heard for decades while living abroad, but suddenly it is everywhere in the newspapers, referring to the British proposals for border controls in Ireland, after the UK finally leaves the EU in March 2020. It means, in plain language, it simply won’t work. But Irish border is not the […]
