Vitis
Proper corporate governance needs to overhaul political culture too: Greek crisis may push EU closer to fiscal harmonisation; College fees may be back on agenda to fund knowledge economy.
Vitis: Banking nationalisation
The credit crisis has prompted a deep bout of navel-gazing about the nature of the banking sector and what role it should play in the future economy. Finance seemed to have become a hermetically sealed industry specialising in practicing a none-too-scientific form of alchemy.
Vitis: Bring back college fees?
As the post mortem into who or what killed the Celtic Tiger has now well and truly exhausted every possibility, the focus switches to how to get the economy back on track.
Vitis: Cute hoorism still here
Corporate governance is fast becoming the must-fix piece of the jigsaw in getting Ireland Inc back on track. That is, after regulation, the banks and public finances. But it will become an increasingly important criteria in attracting foreign direct investment.
Vitis: EU fiscal harmonisation?
The problems with the European Monetary Union (EMU) are being cruelly exposed by the Greek crisis. When negotiations for the functioning of the euro zone were taking place, it was a political bridge too far to hammer out a bailout mechanism agreement between member states. After all, that would have been seen as a step down the road to political union.
