As many nations flirt with the possibility of reintroducing national lockdowns, the Sun reports that Ireland has become the first European nation to return to a nationwide shutdown as the number of COVID-19 cases rocket — in a bid to...
Little can shock observers of European politics these days, but on Saturday in Ireland jaws hit the floor. Sinn Féin—a group once synonymous with sectarian violence—won the popular vote in the Irish general election. It marked a seismic shift in...
After helping Boris Johnson deliver Brexit, Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has suffered a humiliating defeat as the Feb. 8 election in Ireland comes to a close and results are finalized. In addition to Fine Gael emerging a distant third, Varadkar...
Irish Taoiseach and Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar took a gamble by recently calling a general election in Ireland. He hoped that his success in resolving the Irish border crisis during the Brexit negotiations, and a healthy economy that has...
Many countries have set up agencies to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Have they been successful in their goal? Or are these investment promotion agencies a trap for voters, instead of an effective mechanism? Notably, agencies attracting FDI have become...
EIRE’s Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, told Irish broadcaster RTE that it will be ‘very difficult’ for the UK and the EU to reach a Brexit agreement before the October 31st deadline. This is because ‘big gaps’ remained between the two sides....
As the Conservative Party Conference came to an end, Prime Minister Boris Johnson set out the details of his ‘final’ negotiating offer to Brussels in pursuit of a ‘fair and reasonable’ Brexit compromise. If he can achieve this, he will...
A €14bn windfall – something most countries would fight to keep, not hand back. But that’s precisely what Ireland is doing. The money constitutes unpaid tax, the EU ruled in 2016, ordering the alleged culprit – tech giant Apple –...
Following his recent visit to Ireland, Boris Johnson told Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar that a no-deal Brexit would be a failure that both their respective governments would be responsible for. The Irish backstop remains a sticking point for the British...
The Guardian reports that Ireland’s Deputy Prime Minister Simon Coveney recently told a Paris conference that the EU has no intention of revising its plans for an Irish backstop. He told his audience, which included Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay, that...
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