EU must be involved because this issue affects the secular lives of most citizens.

Lasy year, Easter fell so early (March 23rd) that it caused a major inconvenience to most people. As the parents of schoolchildren will remember, their kids were hardly back after Christmas when it was already time for the mid-term break. And they started their Easter holidays even before St Patrick’s Day.

That is a big problem for the tourism industry and for its customers - it means that every year they have a different product to sell, and every year the post-Easter early summer period starts at a different time...

The financial and economic crisis that has convulsed the world in recent months has prompted an array of justifiably angry interrogations by citizens of their policymakers, their regulators and their bankers. How was this allowed to happen? Why was nothing done to stop it? How was it not spotted sooner?

An assessment of any project must include the cost to surrounding businesses and people.

Fiddling with an allen key in order to assemble a flat-pack coffee table is an almost universal experience for people across the developed world. But while the process of assembling a table usually involves little more than a puzzled examination of the instruction leaflet, the construction of the large out-of-town stores where such tables are bought is far more complex...