For those of us who enjoy the comings-and-goings of parliamentary politics, life is quite exciting on the western limits of Europe, in the UK to be precise. Amber Rudd, the Home Secretary, has been forced to resign. It was over her denial of the existence of secret quotas at the Home Office for the deportation […]
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 […]
