Leading EU official Pierre Moscovici has warned that potentially damaging customs checks may still be imposed at Irish ports and airports, when Brexit takes place in two years’ time.

France and Germany are pressing ahead with a plan to harmonise EU corporate taxes, an initiative the Irish Government has long vowed to reject.

The European Union has announced that Greece is no longer breaking budget rules.

An MEP has criticised the European Commission over its handling of the proposed EU-wide corporation tax policy, saying it has fudged its figures trying to persuade sceptical countries to come on board.

An EU report to be published in late June will put a spotlight on increases in Irish house prices, according to Fine Gael MEP Brian Hayes.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has stepped up the Government’s campaign against Brussels’ plan for a new common corporate tax regime saying the proposal will endanger the international “consensus” on ways to tax multinationals.

Pierre Moscovici, head of tax at the European Commission, was in Dublin yesterday and said he was open to compromises that would help encourage Ireland to buy into Brussels’ new tax proposal that aims to share out Europe’s corporate tax spoils.

The EU’s economics commissioner Pierre Moscovici has said Brussels will “do everything to preserve” the North’s peace agreement and its “special” position once Brexit negotiations begin with Britain.

The EU’s economics commissioner has said Brussels will "do everything to preserve" the North’s peace agreement and its "special" position once Brexit negotiations begin with Britain, writes Juno McEnroe of the Irish Examiner.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan’s Budget 2017 has passed muster with the European Commission but Ireland has been warned again about the State relying on the one-off bounty from booming corporate tax revenues.

Chatting to business people in Belfast the other week, it is evident that the consequences of Brexit are already being felt north of the border, and the consequences are not all bad.

Chatting to business people in Belfast this week, it is evident that the consequences of Brexit are already being felt north of the border, and the consequences are not all bad.

The EU’s tax chief has appealed for a “serene” response from Ireland on the bloc’s latest corporate tax overhaul, saying he’s not out to harm the country’s business model.

The European commissioner for tax affairs has hit out at Ireland’s “strange” decision to appeal the €13bn Apple tax ruling as he confirmed Brussels is considering establishing a “European black list of tax havens” to tackle tax evasion within their borders.

THERE was a whiff of irony in the air at yesterday’s meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Bratislava where Ireland’s normally popular minister Michael Noonan (in Europe, at any rate) found himself somewhat isolated.

The Government in its push back was telling anyone who was listening that the Apple case did not involve an assault on Ireland’s 12.5% headline corporate rate and that it had done no wrong in its dealings with the tech giant over the last 15 years.

Britain’s economy may slip into recession next year following the vote to quit the EU.

Ireland is in danger of becoming an international pariah because of its cynical approach to climate change, a leading member of An Taisce has warned.

The Greek government has reached an agreement with European creditors on economic measures it must take before it can get its next batch of bailout cash.

Commission president Jean Claude Juncker called for tax harmonisation when addressing allegations that he oversaw hundreds of sweetheart tax deals that let multinationals escape paying billions of euro in taxes.

Ireland could be losing out €1.22bn in revenue each year over its failure to collect tax on all goods and services liable for Vat, according to an EU report.

EU economy chief Pierre Moscovici has said Greece’s European creditors have agreed to provide debt relief so long as the country’s government can deliver on the terms of its third bailout package.

European Economic Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said yesterday that EU member states are right to ditch specific recommendations on economic reforms from the European Commission, because of their tediousness.

The US National Security Agency (NSA) wiretapped the communications of two successive French finance ministers and collected information on French export contracts, trade and budget talks, according to a report by WikiLeaks.

Revised plans to make sure companies operating in the EU pay tax in some jurisdiction in the union got a mixed reception after the European Commission outlined the details.

A senior EU finance official has told Government not to increase public spending too soon if it wants to prevent a fresh boom and bust cycle.

Britain should get an extra two years to reduce its budget deficit, despite its failure to comply with a five-year-old decision to cut its government spending deficit.

Greece stepped up diplomacy with eurozone partners, yesterday, to try to avert a potentially catastrophic funding crunch this month, when it must make a big debt repayment to the IMF as cash reserves dry up.

Multinationals will no longer be able to avoid paying tax by playing one country off another, under new rules drafted by the European Commission.

The European Commission warned of “catastrophe” if Greece has to abandon the euro and its chief executive, Jean-Claude Juncker, urged EU governments to show solidarity as Athens struggles to secure more credit.

The three-pronged team of inspectors that presided over the bailouts of euro-area countries, including Greece and Ireland, should be scrapped and replaced with a European Union-based body, EU Economic Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said yesterday.

France, Germany and Italy have joined forces to outlaw tax competition between EU countries in a letter to the European Commission. 

External factors were largely blamed for the latest slowdown in EU growth, setting back recovery and forcing the European Commission to revise down its growth projections for this year.

The European Commission is likely to reject France’s 2015 budget draft at the end of October and ask for a new one that would better reflect Paris’s deficit reduction obligations under EU rules, several eurozone officials said.

Euro-area bond yields near record lows are leading governments to be complacent, according to Standard and Poor’s head of sovereign ratings Moritz Kraemer.

European finance ministers sent floundering French president François Hollande a firm message that he must keep to his commitments to get both debt and deficit down as agreed.

Moody's Investors Service has downgraded France, stripping it of its prized AAA credit rating amid concerns over its prospects for economic growth and its exposure to Europe's financial cris

French finance minister Pierre Moscovici urged the eurozone to take a first step to mutualise its short-term debt, stopping short of jointly issued “eurobonds” which he recognised Germany rejects.

The French government is to introduce a 75% income tax rate for top earners as part of what it called a “fighting budget” to boost jobs and help growth.