Soros proposals: Audacious plan might save the EU

Though it was not on the agenda, it is highly likely that the intervention by billionaire financier George Soros in the Brexit debate will have been on the minds of those attending last night’s annual dinner of the British-Irish Chamber of Commerce.

In a keynote address to the 400 business and political leaders gathered in Dublin from both sides of the Irish Sea, Tánaiste Simon Coveney outlined the Irish government’s position which remains vigorously opposed to a hard border.