Author: Frank Schnittger

Tony Blair is being widely touted in the British media as the obvious and only choice for the Presidency of the European Council – a new full time post created under the Lisbon Treaty.  But there is another potential...

In a triumph of hope over achievement, President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples” according to the...

Wait, no electronic bracelets?  No manacles? Terrorists left to roam free and go shopping? Given free lessons in civics and cookery?  The end of civilisation in Ireland is nigh… Whilst US politicians are...

The Lisbon Treaty is being debated to death in Ireland ahead of the referendum on Friday 2nd. October and is probably inducing a yawn of indifference in most readers at this stage.  But what has been remarkable in the...

Ireland votes on the Lisbon Treaty on Friday and the political temperature is gradually heating up.  Denis MacShane, former British European Minister had this to say in today’s Irish Times:  Voters should beware...