European Tribune - Irish pushback strategy - we get mail

Note that, perversely, prevalent attitudes in the core EU members mean that negotiating in Ireland's narrow self-interest is going to be considerably easier than negotiating in the wider European interest.

This is good for Ireland since they can use their narrow self-interest as a fall-back position.

Keynesianism is intellectually hard, as evidenced by the inability of many trained economists to get it - Paul Krugman