The capital markets union was a big-ticket project that stalled in the wake of the Brexit result, but its time may now have come again

We need a debate where everything is put on the table – including the full implications of what Ireland leaving the EU would mean

What will now come into sharp focus is how Britain can square the seemingly impossible circle of continued Most Favoured Nation trading status with the EU while being outside both the customs union and single market

ECB will make a decision on QE on Thursday

Our neighbours are already lagging behind the rest of Europe. This nightmare is bad enough for us without jumping after them

We must convince our EU partners that Irish issues are European ones too

The Fawlty Towers approach to the Luas strike has taken industrial relations back 30 years

Ireland is expected to benefit more than any member state in the Union

Two of the world’s three big central banks are expected to raise interest rates shortly – and that means both danger and opportunity

The bond-buying programme needs to be supplemented by an investment programme

The price of Syriza’s vanity project was over €10 billion, and it didn’t have to be that way.

The economic recovery gives us a chance to do what we have failed to do in the past – implement policies for the long term. We should start with the pensions crisis