Below is an interview with Professor of Economics at the University of Athens, Yanis Varoufakis which I recorded on Wednesday the 14th of September in Leinster House. Michael Taft, Research Officer with Unite the trade union was also on hand to ask some questions.
Yanis is the author of several books, two which were published during [...]

In a recent contribution to the understanding of the origin of the European Monetary Union (EMU) crisis, Paul Krugman (2011) argues that this has been due to the choice made by the European politicians of putting the reasons of politics that called for a closer union, presumably after the German reunification, before those of economics. [...]

We’d like to welcome an excellent new blog, Philip Pilkington’s Fixing the Economists, which aims to provide a view of international economics from an Irish perspective to the  Irish web-oh-sphere. Just cross-posting this from his blog  today to give a flavour.
In 1919, just after WWI, the great British economist John Maynard Keynes published a [...]

I am a broke man!!
You are all must be enjoying the World Cup as much as I am. This have especially been a fantastic World Cup for all the Ireland football supporters, much better than if their team was being there. They have been esperienceing unadulteried pleasure at watching France crash and burn, and then [...]

The Greek social-democratic government of PASOK is facing a massive general strike today and a crucial Parliamentary vote tomorrow Thursday (May 6th).
One aspect of the Greek situation that has received very little attention in the Irish and International Press is the fact that Greece is one of the major arms purchasing states in Europe spending [...]

Contra errores Graecorum, ad Urbanum IV Pontificem Maximum (Against the Errors of the Greeks, to Pope Urban IV) is a short treatise written in 1263 by Roman Catholic theologian Saint Thomas Aquinas as a contribution to Pope Urban’s efforts at reunion with the Eastern Church. This work engendered a whole series of responses and European [...]

Larry Elliott’s article about the current Eurozone crisis in yesterday’s Guardian contained a reference to some interesting research to come out of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. The paper, titled Eurozone Crisis: Beggar Thyself and Thy Neighbour contains some thoughtful insights into the underlying structural causes of the current predicament. [...]

The following is my translation of an article by Tasos Iliadakis, first published on January 25 2010 in the daily paper ‘The Country’ in Crete.

- all those who forget the past cannot have a future
A. The background
During the early 1940s, Berlin, in order to have financial means of securing its strategic objectives in the Balkans, [...]

A European country that scapegoats a Semitic people, persecutes defenders of human rights by stripping them of employment, and denies freedom of speech to Jews: surely a description of Germany during the Third Reich?
Yes, but unfortunately also a description of Germany at the outset of the 21st century.
In the wake of German Chancellor Merkel’s craven speech [...]