European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services Michel Barnier: “We need more responsible companies.” Photograph: John Thys/AFP/Getty Images

Disclosure rules to be extended to corporations on country-by-country basis

Migrants wait to disembark from an Italian navy ship  in Sicily after being rescued from a Turkish cargo ship in 2009.  Photograph: AP

Human rights report claims lives are put at risk by border control measures

Taoiseach Enda Kenny at yesterday’s European Union leaders summit in Brussels. Photograph: Francois Lenoir/Reuters

Van Rompuy says EU will push for global standard in international forums

European Council president Herman Van Rompuy welcomes Taoiseach Enda Kenny  at  the European Union leaders summit in Brussels yesterday. Photograph: Francois Lenoir/Reuters

Dublin hoping that controversy will not derail attempt for further debt relief

Minister for Finance Michael Noonan

Ireland will not become the “whipping boy” for US Senate, says Minister

Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Italy’s Prime Minister Enrico Letta listen to European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso during a European Union leaders summit in Brussels today. Photograph:  REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

Taoiseach says Ireland does not do special deals on tax

 Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore: “Ireland does not negotiate special tax-rate deals with any company.” Photograph: Alan Betson

European tax policies and ‘profit shifting’ to feature at EU summit today

Apple chief executive Tim Cook arrives to testify at a Senate subcommittee hearing on offshore profit shifting on Capitol Hill in Washington yesterday. Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters

Maker of the iPhone and iPad accused of sheltering profits in Irish ‘ghost companies’

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