Donald Trump’s trade strategies regarding China are designed to allow the US intervene in any potential free-trade deals between the EU or UK and the Asian giant, says Daniel Gros TWO recent developments are bringing America’s trade strategy toward China into focus.

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Evolutionary psychology, which stresses competition for females, can add another dimension to our understanding of anti-immigrant mood, says Daniel Gros.

Manipulation or even outright control of the media cannot explain the enduring popularity, borne out by opinion polls, of illiberal leaders, writes Daniel Gros.

Central banks’ goal of an inflation rate close to 2% will not be achieved, and the reasons why are not obvious, says Daniel Gros

Despite elections in senior member states, the short-term prognosis for the currency union is good, but long-term worries remain, writes Daniel Gros.

Britain will pay the price if more countries follow Trump’s lead and the rules-based global system continues to deteriorate, writes Daniel Gros

Plans are still up in the air on immigration controls, access to the single market, as well as passporting rights for financial services, writes Daniel Gros

In the wake of non-enforcement of fines for failing to hit fiscal deficit targets Daniel Gros discovers that EU member states prioritise domestic political imperatives over common rules

No country that wants to benefit from the European project has been able to have its cake and eat it, as the examples of Norway and Switzerland show, writes Daniel Gros

Grexit no longer represents the potential catastrophe that it once did. After all, the main short-term cost has already materialised, writes Daniel Gros.

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The facts are indisputable but that hasn’t stopped Germany and Greece fanning the flames, writes Daniel Gros.

Police have again began searching the back garden of the apartment where missing Cork student Karen Buckley was last seen,  Brian O'Donnell has lost his appeal against the repossession of his former mansion and Jurgen Klopp leaves Dortmund. These are some of the latest and most read news on irishexaminer.com this lunchtime.

Near-zero interest rates undermine the very notion of a ‘debt overhang’ in the likes of Ireland, writes Daniel Gros.

Syriza’s chorus of despair has learned its lines well, but efforts to blames some sort of pantomime villain are erroneous, writes Daniel Gros

Looking out from the top of the ECB’s new tower in Frankfurt, it’s easy to find dark clouds on the horizon. 

Failure to impose fiscal rules means the new European Commission is in danger of losing its authority, writes Daniel Gros

Despite the rise in eurosceptics, the European Parliament is still trusted by more people than national parliaments are, writes Daniel Gros.

The policies that are needed to fix problem banks are unlikely to be implemented soon, writes Daniel Gros.

Ireland will benefit from the ECB purchasing sovereign bonds, which the bank’s president Mario Draghi is expected to announce today.

Ireland is likely to get little more than €15bn for the banks it has pumped €28bn of taxpayers’ money into as part of a deal the Government hopes to agree later this year with the EU’s bailout fund.

Tomorrow is the start of a critical few weeks forEurope when the fate of Greece, the euro and the weaker eurozone countries could well change for ever.

A Spanish bailout is looking likely, writes Susana Vera, despite the government and the EU dismissing talks of a rescue package

Greece must urgently raise interest rates to encourage savings and discourage deposit flight, writes Daniel Gros

NEGOTIATIONS on the new fiscal treaty makes one wonder if Germany has a death wish for the euro, or at least for some of the eurozone countries.

When it is well within the eurozone’s ability to buy its own debt, why on earth would any outsiders want to step in with their own money, writes Daniel Gros

FINANCE Minister Michael Noonan firmly committed the taxpayer to paying back “to the last red cent” all the money lent to the Irish state and the two pillar banks of AIB and Bank of Ireland — but not to unsecured bondholders in Anglo Irish Bank.

THE Government will not be forced to increase the corporation tax rate as part of the deal for funds to bailout the banks, German and EU sources have confirmed.

THE EU-IMF investigators will uncover significant fraud and corruption in their examination of the Irish banking sector according to a leading European economist who worked with the IMF.

SPAIN and Portugal will “unavoidably” request money from the EU/IMF fund, according to one of Europe’s leading economists.

FINANCE Minister Brian Lenihan, has said the conditions being attached to the state’s loan to Greece will ensure that Ireland does not lose any money.

THE Irish economy will stagnate for 10 years but that is a much better prospect than if it were not a member of the eurozone, according to a leading European economist.

THE EU could force the Government to include borrowings to fund the toxic bank it is setting up as part of the national debt.