While Europe grapples with political and economic turmoil, Ireland stands in stark contrast with its stable and predictable political landscape.
Modern Ireland is relatively resistant to political disruption. The centre holds; even the fringe parties usually end up adopting some centrist tendencies. And in a kind of bland and gentle rhythm, things tick along without much noise at all. This was the expectation heading into November’s election, and it is the obvious conclusion as we head out of it. To the French and Germans, and until recently the Brits, Ireland looks like political Arcadia.
Meanwhile I wonder if, in 2024, the word most frequently used to describe the politics of the Continent was “chaos”. Chaos besets? Disarray, I heard. Events of December have only turbocharged the sense of a Europe fully on the brink (though we should be careful to remind ourselves that none of this is entirely unfamiliar. It is hardly as if Europe has only known cloudless harmony until this point.)in Germany is currently on track to be the first chancellor voted out of office after only one term. A combination of long-term de-industrialisation, the effects of energy dependency on Russia and “bad management” (so) have left the country in economic crisis and headed for a political one. The future of European defence policy is murky as the split over Ukraine deepens (and not just in Germany, of course).will leave office as the shortest-serving prime minister in the history of modern France after a no-confidence vote and the collapse of the French government. And so two countries that account for nearly 50 per cent of the entire economy of the euro zone are in a simultaneously perilous situation and one of them (Germany) has a kind of lame duck leade
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