We could make a far better job of discharging age-old social obligations, especially around housing, and equitable, ready-when-needed health services. We need to make huge cultural changes around our head-in-the-sand attitude to climate change, even if that means challenging increasingly unsustainable core industries. Those polls suggest that once Merkel’s time as chancellor ends in the autumn, her party’s position and power will diminish greatly. It does not do Merkel’s Irish peers a disservice to suggest that they have yet to achieve her political status or authority. More, much more, as today’s protests confirm, is needed.

Source: Irish Examiner March 17, 2021 08:39 UTC