Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping’s visit to Ireland last month highlighted the way in which the impact of the international financial crisis is bringing about a change in the perception of China in Europe. It is useful…
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Following the Pack Regardless of the Consequences
The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has once again demonstrated his willingness to support US and Israeli policy regardless of the consequences. In answers to parliamentary questions last week he justified sanctions against…
For the Times They Are a Changing
Bob Dylan could have been writing about these times when he composed the lyrics ‘the times they are a changing’. This was never so apparent than on a recent trip to the US to meet …
UK-US ‘special relationship’ is alive and well – it runs from City of London to Wall St. | Nick Shaxson
UK-US ‘special relationship’ is alive and well – it runs from City of London to Wall St. | Nick Shaxson Wisdom abounds that one of the many outcomes of Cameron’s Veto over the EU Summit…
During the last four years the EU’s economy has grown by -0.3%, the US by 0.6%, and China by 42.2%
The full scale of the difference in economic performance of China compared to the US, Europe and Japan during the international financial crisis is shown in Figure 1. It is summarised in the following figures:…
China in face of the West’s ‘Great Stagnation’
As G20 leaders met in Cannes, they faced an economic situation in the developed economies best summed up by Goldman Sachs, the company which invented the term ‘BRIC’, as the ‘Great Stagnation’. Until recently developments…
The Ask
Book Review: The Ask, Sam Lipsyte (2010) Milo Burke is a man in distress. He’s a man who was whelped in a liberal college that let him believe he was the future of visual art,…
Negative trends in world trade – further confirmation of economic slowdown
Attempts to assess current prospects for the world economy have primarily focused on deceleration in US and European GDP growth. But world trade is clearly also indicating negative trends. Trade is a particularly sensitive indicator as…
What lies behind the renewed international economic crisis – and what policies are required to deal with it?
Given the onset of a renewed round of the international financial crisis it is useful to draw together its various elements in an analysis of its overall determinants, its course, and the policies necessary to…
The European Upside Down World: Why the nth European agreement is a step back
How to judge the nth European agreement ”to save Greece” stipulated on Thursday 21st July? The financial markets have already provided their verdict: on Friday 22 the spread between the Italian ten-years Treasury Bonds and the…
International Economic Consequences of the Greek Debt Bailout
The Greek debt crisis is both a significant economic event and a foreign policy success for Germany. It has, for the present, shifted the economic balance of power in Europe, and to some extent more widely,…
Colombia and Irish Government Policy
Grupo Raices and Justice for Colombia will be hosting a film screening on Thursday July 28th in Liberty Hall at 6pm. We will be showing the documentary “El Baile Rojo” (The Red Dance). The film…
The Eurozone crisis and China
As Europe’s debt crisis intensifies again an interesting international aspect is the policy choices this poses for China. It is a further sign of the growing international effect of China’s economic strength that it had…
Near FM Interview with Gideon Levy
Gideon Levy is a veteran journalist and columnist with the liberal Israeli daily, Ha’aretz. Along with Amira Hass, he is one of the few Israeli journalists – one of the few Western journalists – to…
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