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Suzanne Lynch

Suzanne Lynch

European Correspondent

Suzanne Lynch is the Irish Times’ European Correspondent based in Brussels. As well as covering the EU institutions and the euro zone crisis, she also keeps an eye on all things cultural across the continent. Formerly a financial journalist with the Irish Times in Dublin, she also worked as an arts journalist for a number of years in Ireland and the UK.

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
EU leaders pledge to curb tax avoidance

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
Gilmore denies special tax deal agreed with Apple

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
Ireland labelled a ‘tax haven’ as US Senate investigates Apple’s offshore strategies

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

Apple chief executive Tim Cook and other company executives, along with US treasury officials, will appear before the Senate subcommittee at a hearing on Capitol Hill today.
Government denies facilitating Apple tax avoidance

US Senate report accuses technology giant of using Irish subsidiaries to avoid paying billions of dollars in tax

Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly, who received the backing of 80 MEPs from across Europe’s political spectrum – the written support of 40 was required to qualify. Photograph: Julien Behal/PA Wire
O’Reilly confirmed as official candidate for post of European ombudsman

Five candidates, including three MEPs, also in running for €248,000 post

France fell back into recession in the first quarter of the year, experiencing a 0.2 per cent contraction in GDP in the first three months of the year , in line with the previous quarter.
Euro zone in sixth quarter of decline

GDP fell by 0.2%

France’s President Francois Hollande (left) speaks with Mali’s interim President Dioncounda Traore at the Donor Conference in Brussels. Photograph: Reuters
Ireland pledges €2.5 million in aid to Mali to contribute to reconstruction

The European Union pledged an extra €520 million to the north African country over the next two years

François Hollande: much anticipated visit to Brussels coincided with the release of new economic data which showed that France has entered recession for the second time in four years. Laurent Dubrule/Reuters
France given two extra years to reach deficit targets

European Commission urges France to speed up enactment of structural reforms

People in Cyprus continue to face restrictions on the amount of money they are permitted to withdraw from bank accounts. Photograph: Bogdan Cristel/Reuters
Financial crisis exposes EU’s credibility gap

Europe Letter: diverging views about banking union reflect broader issues for Europe as a whole

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