Author: Frank Schnittger

Sven Triloqvist: It might be that the USA is lost. It might be that the USA should be sacrificed to save the planet. There is a lot to be said for saving the planet – I haven’t heard too many reasons for saving the...

Cross posted from the European Tribune and other follies. Oh no!  Not another Obama diary I hear you say.  ET has been a relatively Obama free zone in recent times despite some commentary on his European tour and his...

<td width="49%" <td width="49%" Presidents Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan and Clinton all had Irish roots and were not slow to exploit those roots in their attempts to court the American-Irish vote in America....

President Sarkozy is reported as having told French Politicians at a lunch in the Elysee Palace today that “the Irish will have to vote again” on the Lisbon (EU reform) Treaty.  This runs directly in the face of...

Nothing has been quite as sudden, or as rapid, as the fall from grace of the Celtic Tiger. Economic forecasters have been falling over each other with ever more gloomy revisions of previous forecasts – often made only a...