The European Union is advancing plans to protect more sectors from surging Chinese imports, which the bloc’s trade chief warned may create a record deficit this year.
The UK’s City minister said the Labour government understands the importance of a globally competitive financial services sector, as Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey considers whether to hike taxes on banks at his upcoming budget.
Ireland will cut levies on fuels as part of a series of energy measures aimed at helping voters and quelling anger that escalated into protests earlier this year.
Ireland’s new retail savings and investment accounts, aimed at encouraging more people to invest, will have a €50,000 ($56,318) tax-free threshold, Finance Minister Simon Harris announced in the budget Tuesday.
Ireland’s government has an enviable budget surplus, and voters want those funds used to help them with soaring energy costs and a cost-of-living squeeze.
Ireland’s government has an enviable budget surplus, and voters want those funds used to help them with soaring energy costs and a cost-of-living squeeze.
The UK’s Northern Ireland secretary called for British unionists and Irish nationalists to find compromise, as a stand-off over whether a unionist parade in a nationalist area can go ahead risks upending the region’s fragile government.
Ireland’s media watchdog has fined Alphabet Inc.’s Google over how the tech company processed location data after complaints from several European consumer rights organizations.
Nationalist leaders in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland agreed to work together on efforts to rejoin the European Union and leave the UK, just days after Donald Trump said he supported Irish unification.
President Donald Trump said he would remove US tariffs on Irish whiskey, announcing the move Sunday while attending a golf tournament at his family’s course in western Ireland.
US President Donald Trump said he would like to see Ireland “unified,” a remark that puts him at odds with UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham who recently said the issue is off the table.
Irish leaders on Saturday welcomed US President Donald Trump on a two-day visit, seeking to downplay tensions that threatened to upend ties between close allies.
For Ireland, Donald Trump’s visit to his golf course in the west of the country is a chance to impress the capricious president. It’s also fraught with risk.