The European Commission's Fit for 55 package doesn’t make life easy for US president Joe Biden, and would be regarded by many as a tariff by stealth

Europe has a great opportunity to revolutionise how it tackles climate change, but blunt tax hikes that hit the poor hardest of all are not the way forward

Ireland is just one of nine countries that didn’t endorse the proposals at the G7 summit for a 15% international corporate tax regime. Are we undermining our moral authority as a result?

Armin Laschet, the staid new leader of the centre-right CDU, may just hold off the charismatic Greens leader Annalena Baerbock to become German chancellor

As the country heads towards full vaccination, unravelling the laws which give unprecedented centralised power to government must be a priority

Joe Biden may not believe in America First, but his nationalistic approach to trade is clear to see

The British prime minister is consumed by his Little England view and winning domestic favour at all costs

The planning behind our ’outdoor summer’ mantra was sorely lacking, and so too it seems is the economic planning behind our post-pandemic recovery

Last week’s state-sponsored highjacking of a Ryanir plane should be a wake-up call to the EU on the very real threats to our security

The strangely muted response from the government and the opposition to the decision by Aer Lingus to close its cabin crew base at Shannon was an example of the political system’s reluctance to do its most important job: develop policy, then implement it

Contrary to populist moves by recent governments to narrow the tax base, the IMF has recommended a commonsense approach

Political unrest is almost always generated by economic decline, but too much consensus among the mainstream is what drives voters into the arms of extremists

Ursula von der Leyen’s indignation at being snubbed by the Turkish president and her own colleague, the President of the European Council, shows the need to have one clear recognisable leader for the EU

Urgent action is needed now as there will be little point in complaining about scaled back routes and increased flight prices when travel begins again

Inaccurate and incendiary language from the new US administration ignores the fact that the issue is rooted in a loophole in its own tax code

Workers at prestigious companies are receiving expensive gifts in thanks for 100-hour work weeks when what they really need is for more staff to be hired

We have sacrificed more than a year of our lives. Now it’s time for the government to set out a clear pathway to normality

A fall of 65 per cent in British imports to Ireland in January gives lie to the mere ‘teething problems’ claimed by Brexiteers, with the collapse now in full swing

Why do ministers insist we can’t go outside the EU’s vaccine procurement programme when other EU countries, including Germany and Malta, have bought up supplies for their own populations?

The behaviour of David Frost in the EU talks has led to Britain again breaching its obligations, with severe implications for Northern Ireland