France’s trade minister said the US hasn’t offered anything substantial in negotiations with the EU on a free-trade deal and that talks should come to an end.

EU and US negotiators said yesterday that they still needed to overcome large differences for a transatlantic free trade deal to be sealed this year, and factor in the impending exit from the EU of the UK, one of the US’s biggest export markets.

A group of 65 European public interest groups has written to the president of the European Parliament expressing “serious concern” over negotiations on a new EU-US trade deal.

Brexit: Early days, but global uncertainty and blow to consumer confidence are already doing some damage.

Ireland’s agri-food leaders have urged the Government to do everything in its powers to ensure the EU maintains an open approach to future trade with Britain, following last Thursday’s Brexit referendum.

If ever there was a case of mixed signals being sent to farmers, then the EU and its attitude to pesticides is it.

As the income crisis deepens across all farming sectors, the IFA is sending a clear message to the Government that urgent action is needed.

Business representative body Ibec has criticised the omission from the Programme for Government of the proposed major trade deal between the European Union and United States.

A constitutional referendum would be needed to ratify the proposed multi-billion euro transatlantic trade deal between the European Union and US, says a legal expert.

There is a clear resonance between the fears expressed by Greenpeace regarding the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the fears expressed in the report on debt by the Debt and Development Coalition Ireland (DDCI).

A sweeping free trade deal being negotiated between the European Union and the US would lower food safety and environmental standards, environmental campaign group Greenpeace said yesterday, citing confidential documents from the talks.

Irish suckler beef producers could be face up to €64m in lost imports following a TTIP deal, a Friends of the Earth Europe report has warned.

Britain would not be able to strike a free trade deal with the US “any time soon” if it leaves the EU, as Washington’s focus would be on reaching agreement with the European Union, said US President Barack Obama.

Jobs Minister Richard Bruton urged the European Commission to bring negotiations over a contentious transatlantic trade deal to “a rapid conclusion” and said he hoped an equivalent Chinese deal could also be struck.

ON Saturday hundreds of thousands of people marched in Berlin to protest against a planned trade deal between Europe and the United States which was described by its opponents as being dangerously anti-democratic. 

The signing earlier this week of the largest regional trade accord in history, the Trans-Pacific Partnership has set new terms for trade and business investment across Asia and the Pacific and the US.

US President Barack Obama has been strangled by Republican Congressional majorities but is still on the verge of sealing his legacy on the international front, writes Andrew Hammond.

Europe correspondent, Ann Cahill, delivers her weekly briefing on Euro affairs from the European Parliament.

Failing to agree a trans- atlantic free trade deal would be damaging for the EU and send a message that the bloc has waning international importance, said Britain’s minister for Europe.

I am confused. I am actually a little perplexed, and I don’t know whether to laugh or to cry.

A fall in profits caused by regulatory changes will not be sufficient grounds for an investor to sue a sovereign state as part of a proposed transatlantic trade agreement, according to the EU Commission.

Ireland is the fourth best country in the world in which to do business and ranks top of the pile in terms of personal freedom, according to Forbes’ annual rankings.

The imposition of water charges by the government has shown how an apathetic people can be pushed to their limits, resulting in huge marches all around the county. Unfortunately what has been missing in this whole sorry tale is the role of the European Union (EU).

We are in a brief hiatus in the negotiations between the EU and US on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). 

A potential trade agreement being negotiated between the EU and US could result in the creation of 8,000 Irish jobs, according to research.

Ireland’s hope that a trade agreement with the US will open up a lucrative public procurement market in exchange for some concessions on beef may be difficult to achieve, a US expert has warned.

A successful trade agreement between the EU and the US can only strengthen Ireland’s economic bonds with the US and boost incoming foreign direct investment here, a former high-ranking American government official has said.