John Bruton has written an open letter to José Manuel Barroso, available here.
Category: EMU
Colm McCarthy has some trenchant remarks on Mr Sarkozy’s recent populist speech:
If you are already fed up with the albums you got for Christmas, I did an interview for Vox about the Irish situation which you can download here.
Eurointelligence has a couple of pieces on the eurozone crisis this week: the one by Philippe Legrain I linked to yesterday, and this piece by Barry Eichengreen.
And here is a newish blog dedicated to the crisis, produced by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Paul Krugman has a thoughtful survey of the Euro crisis in this week’s New York Times Magazine (forthcoming on Sunday but available on-line now). This is not stockbroker-economist-type research, which tends to be long on buzzwords and hyperbole. It is a well-reasoned feature-length review with some policy suggestions. It has a central focus on Ireland and the other troubled peripheral states.