Author: Frank Schnittger

Cross-posted from the European Tribune It is now ten years to the day that I published my first diary here, entitled “OOPS what am I doing here?”.  In it I asked: Are we all frustrated journalists here, failed...

<sub>Michael Collins in London during treaty negotiations in October 1921. Collins, the first and last Irish politician to sign up to a hard border. Photograph: Hulton Archive</sub&gt I wrote last week that a Crunch...

Leo Varadker has been upsetting a few people in the UK: The SUN Editorial THE SUN SAYS Ireland’s naive young prime minister should shut his gob on Brexit and grow up. Leo Varadkar may not like Brexit but he needs to accept...

A correspondent points me to two interesting perspectives on Brexit. The first is an American perspective by Steven Erlanger, the chief diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times, who has just completed four years as London...

As someone distrustful of extreme nationalism and committed to the European ideal as the best way we have yet found of maintaining peace and prosperity in Europe, I am utterly conflicted by the drive for Catalonian independence....