Dublin, Ireland -
Gerry Adams and Sinn Fein can be interesting to watch, though never to trust. Adams is riding the “anti-austerity” victory of Francois Hollande in France and the results of Greece’s economic and political carnage last week to voice deep-throated opposition to the pending EU fiscal stability treaty. A national referendum on the treaty will be held here in Ireland on May 31st.
Reasonable people can agree that Europe tilted too far in the direction of severe, no-growth policies over the past four years. And yet the grandstanding of Adams and Greece’s far-Left EU rejectionists are sobering reminders that there are few credible ways out of this mess than as one moderately integrated European Union with a more robust growth agenda.