Shane Fitzgerald is a policy analyst at the Institute of International and European Affairs in Dublin. His research areas include international financial reform, the European political economy and the UK's European and foreign policies.
The UK will be sidelined in Europe as the euro-crisis leads the Euro group to form the faster core of a two-speed Europe. Both Europe and Britain will be worse off for it
The opposition Fine Gael party, set to play a leading role in the next government, has put forward a programme that proposes to abolish the Seanad, strengthen the parliamentary committee system, reform the legislative process, overhaul the budgetary system, bolster transparency and protect whistle