Organisation: Britain

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business

Barnier: 'Significant divergences' persist in EU-UK trade talks

The EU’s chief Brexit negotiator has said that “significant divergences” persist in its talks with Britain on their new relationship from 2021.

comment-analysis

Mandy Johnson: Gas times in Kinsale as production winds up after 42 years

world

UK reviews Hong Kong extradition agreement amid rising tensions with China

world

Beijing accuses UK of ‘gross interference’ over Hong Kong citizenship offer

comment-analysis

Daniel McConnell: Coveney dismayed at UK’s approach to Brexit talks

general

Into the fog: How the UK lost track of Covid-19

'Frustration' at British switch in Brexit stance - Coveney

Negotiations with Britain in relation to securing a Brexit deal are “in a difficult place” Simon Coveney has said.

Fri, 03 Jul, 2020

Irish Examiner View: Just as empires come and go, democracy may not last forever

Events in China, Russia, and beyond suggest that we can't take our democratic institutions for granted

Fri, 03 Jul, 2020

Central Bank sees unemployment persisting through 2023 amid Covid-19 storm

Unemployment will return to its pre-Covid-19 levels in late 2023 and only then if there is no new outbreak of the disease, while house building will be severely disrupted for a number of years, the Central Bank has predicted.

Fri, 03 Jul, 2020

Top-secret spying op sends shockwaves through organised crime gangs

A top-secret spying operation by a European police team has sent “shockwaves” through organised crime, including Irish gangs.

Thu, 02 Jul, 2020

Hong Kong: What is happening in the Asian economic hub?

China has passed a controversial national security law which makes activities deemed subversive or secessionist punishable by imprisonment.

Thu, 02 Jul, 2020

Paschal Donohoe 'cautious' of 100% State-backed loans for SMEs

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has signalled caution over the inclusion of 100% State-backed loans in the SME credit guarantee scheme element of the Government’s pending multi-billion stimulus package for the economy.

Wed, 01 Jul, 2020

Micheál Martin speaks with European Commission president and Brexit chief

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has told the European Commission president of the need to support Irish regions and sectors worst affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Tue, 30 Jun, 2020

Britain plans to sell €300bn in debt in just five months to pay for Covid-19 hit to economy

Britain plans to sell a record £275bn (€302bn) of government debt from the start of April to the end of August to pay for its huge spending response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Mon, 29 Jun, 2020

Oliver Mangan: Even a bare-bones Brexit deal would be preferable at this point

The EU-UK trade talks have made very little progress over the first half of the year.

Mon, 29 Jun, 2020

Airline stocks remain in tailspin despite fundraising efforts

Airline stocks have continued to fall amid fears of a second wave of Covid-19 and despite some big carriers attracting financial backing.

Thu, 25 Jun, 2020

European-wide car sales headed for record 25% crash this year

European car sales are forecast to drop by a record 25% this year after the coronavirus pandemic shuttered showrooms, leading to a collapse in demand and threatening one of the region’s biggest industries.

Tue, 23 Jun, 2020

Concerns that Donohoe's Covid-19 recovery firepower will fall short

Concerns are growing that the recovery package promised by Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe will fall short if the firepower fails to match what the British government has delivered for its struggling businesses.

Tue, 23 Jun, 2020

Ibec urges Donohoe to give €15,000 grant to 70,000 small firms to save jobs from Covid-19 hit

Ireland’s main business group Ibec said that the Government's planned summer recovery package for small firms need not stretch to multi-billions and could be pegged to as little as €2.7bn upfront to save many thousands of jobs.

Tue, 23 Jun, 2020

Ireland and EU making no hard border preparations as no-deal Brexit in sight

Ireland and the EU are making no preparations for a hard border despite the prospect of a no-trade deal with the UK looking increasingly likely.

Thu, 11 Jun, 2020

A third of Irish firms expect no-deal Brexit

A third of Irish companies now believe a no-deal, hard Brexit will materialise at the end of this year.

Wed, 10 Jun, 2020

UK car sales hit lowest level since 1952

Sales of new cars in the UK tumbled by an annual 89% in May, only slightly less negative than April’s record 97% collapse, as car dealerships remained shuttered by the British government’s coronavirus lockdown.

Thu, 04 Jun, 2020

Irish Examiner View: Alliance in doubt

The G7 summit meeting of world leaders in Quebec two years ago was a diplomatic car crash.

Wed, 03 Jun, 2020

Tánaiste Simon Coveney seeking approval for Brexit Omnibus Bill and warns of no-deal

The spectre of Britain crashing out of the EU without a trade deal will be discussed at Cabinet today as the outgoing government launches contingency plans for when the Brexit transition period ends.

Fri, 29 May, 2020

Gerard Howlin: Careless Cummings could yet see Tories become 'they' instead of 'us'

Dominic Cummings matters not for what he did, but for what he is. He is ultimately the creature — not the creator — of his prime minister, writes Gerard Howlin.

Wed, 27 May, 2020

Greencore CEO Coveney sees full sales recovery taking 'one or two years'

Greencore boss Patrick Coveney has said it could take “a year or two” before sales volumes across its core food-to-go product lines fully recover.

Tue, 19 May, 2020

Geoffrey Roberts: 75 years on let's hope the Covid-19 crisis re-energises global efforts to avoid war

Seventy-five years on from its most patriotic hour, Russia remains wary of alliances and those who might rewrite its history, writes Geoffrey Roberts.

Sat, 09 May, 2020

The Irish Examiner View: WWII showed power of common purpose

The act of remembering, of honouring the memory of those who went before us is as often as much about the future as it is about the past.

Sat, 09 May, 2020

Ryanair takes share price hit as skies continue to darken for airlines

Shares in Ryanair and IAG, which owns Aer Lingus, tumbled on news of up to 4,000 jobs across the two airlines potentially being lost as part of the continued fallout from the Covid-19 disruption.

Fri, 01 May, 2020

Varadkar: EU must unleash financial firepower

Leaders hold crunch talks today on €1.5 trillion recovery package

Thu, 23 Apr, 2020

Irish Examiner View: Grim figures but recovery close at hand

European Union leaders are expected to again defer a final decision tomorrow on how to finance post-pandemic economic rejuvenation.

Tue, 21 Apr, 2020

Irish Examiner View: A new crisis but same old failings

If the nation slept soundly last night it may just be because the National Treasury Management Agency today paid over €11bn in our largest bond redemption in more than a decade. One debt has been cleared to make way for another; the circular danse macabre continues but because of changing interest rates the terms may not be as vulturine.

Mon, 20 Apr, 2020

UK lockdown extended for at least three more weeks

Britain's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, deputising for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, said lockdown measures must continue.

Thu, 16 Apr, 2020

Ryle Dwyer: Ireland’s neutrality had plenty of grey areas

On the 75th anniversary this month of the death of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ryle Dwyer recalls the political reaction to his death in Ireland

Tue, 14 Apr, 2020

Eddie Hobbs: Fasten your seatbelt, the worst is yet to come

If you had the nagging feeling that you are not getting the full story, you are right, suggests Eddie Hobbs.

Sun, 12 Apr, 2020

Bank of England could finance UK government

The Bank of England has agreed to temporarily lend the government money if needed to help finance its massive COVID-19 spending plans, reviving a measure used during the 2008 financial crisis.

Thu, 09 Apr, 2020

The Irish Examiner view: EU solidarity tested like never before

Even the most ardent Irish Europhile must recoil when they recall the brutal application of power by then ECB president, Jean-Claude Trichet, who, in March 2011, warned Finance Minister Michael Noonan that “a bomb would go off in Dublin” if he, as any rational person would have, imposed losses on senior bondholders — the financiers whose gambling all but made our banking crisis inevitable.

Wed, 08 Apr, 2020

Irish Examiner View: Coronavirus Pandemic - Science will provide an antidote

It is far too early to even begin to imagine the pandemic is under control or that it might be anytime soon.

Tue, 31 Mar, 2020

Europe’s trade system with Iran finally makes first deal amid Covid-19 outbreak

Iran has been hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic, but supplying medical goods to Iran was already a concern before the outbreak.

Tue, 31 Mar, 2020

Irish Examiner View: The redemptive power of music - Tune in to hear us at our best

There are many reasons to be circumspect about how social media influences, either openly or from behind one mask or another, our quickly-changing world.

Thu, 26 Mar, 2020

Irish Examiner View: 100 years after Black and Tans arrived in Ireland grave misjudgements are still possible

When the first Black and Tans arrived in Ireland 100 years ago today they could not have imagined that a century later they would still, and deservedly, provoke such anger.

Tue, 24 Mar, 2020

'Important to work together': Harris talks with WHO; Govt considering nationalising private hospitals

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says governments are heading in the right direction over COVID-19.

Tue, 17 Mar, 2020

Soft Brexit leads to surge in exports, CSO figures reveal

Irish exports surged in January, thanks in part to a Brexit deal.

Mon, 16 Mar, 2020

The Royal visit was a walking ad for Ireland

The visit earlier this month of Britain’s Prince William and his wife, Kate, will compensate a little for the Patrick’s Day shut-down.

Mon, 16 Mar, 2020

Micheál Martin: Britain's response to coronavirus will have 'implications' for Ireland

Micheál Martin confirmed that government formation talks would still go ahead on Wednesday between his party and Fine Gael - despite the virus emergency.

Mon, 16 Mar, 2020

Global shutdown as battle rages to contain cornovirus

Panic buying in Australia, the United States and Britain saw leaders appeal for calm over the virus that has infected over 138,000 people globally and killed more than 5,000.

Sun, 15 Mar, 2020

'This is the icing on the cake': Willie Mullins celebrates Cheltenham Gold Cup double

Willie Mullins waited a long time to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup but, having finally got his hands on the prize he craved most last year, he was again the toast of Prestbury Park today after 100-30 favourite Al Boum Photo provided another picture-perfect moment.

Fri, 13 Mar, 2020

Threat of return to violence in North: Defence Forces' officers' body