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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.

Minister for Enterprise Richard Bruton held bilateral meetings with EU trade ministers throughout yesterday in a bid to secure consensus on EU-US trade talks. Photograph: David Sleator
Common EU position on trade talks with US agreed

French cultural sector a key issue in negotiations

A cinema on the Champs-Elysees in Paris. The key stumbling block to a common EU position on transatlantic trade is France. The euro zone’s second-largest economy has dug its heels in over the “cultural exception” – the system of subsidies and other state supports that subsidise French film and radio production. Photograph: Mathieu Willcocks/The New York Times
Irish presidency leads effort to bridge transatlantic trade divide

Europe letter: efforts to formalise trade relations between the EU and the US have long proved elusive

Taoiseach Enda Kenny with moderator Peter Spiegel (left) and Antonis Samaras of Greece, Valdis Dombrovskis of Latvia and Jyrki Katainen of Finland at the Economic Ideas Forum in Helsinki on Friday. Photograph: Reuters
Bank rescue fund deal unlikely this year, says Kenny

Issue to be negotiated ‘towards end of year and into next year’, says Taoiseach

The European Court of Human Rights: ruled in 2010 that Ireland was in breach of the Convention on Human Rights. Photograph: Getty Images
Council of Europe welcomes Government commitment to abortion legislation

ECHR found in 2010 that Ireland was in breach of Convention on Human Rights

ECB moves away from unblocking lending

Member states may have to tackle SME lending at European Council level

Finnish president Sauli Niinisto with Taoiseach Enda Kenny at the presidential residence in Helsinki this morning. Photograph: Heikki Saukkomaa/Lehtikuva/Reuters
Kenny to discuss EU finances on Finnish visit

Finland’s strict adherence to fiscal discipline likely to be to fore when Taoiseach meets PM

European Central Bank president Mario Draghi and vice-president Vitor Constancio (left) arrive for the monthly ECB news conference in Frankfurt yesterday. Photograph: Reuters
ECB indicates openness to negative interest rates

Central Bank holds rates at record low across euro zone

European commissioner for economic and monetary affairs Olli Rehn from Finland. Photograph: Yves Logghe/AP
How Europe’s shining light deals with its challenges head on

If it’s summer it must be Finland as the sun shines on its social and economic model

Last month, the commission announced plans to impose provisional duties on Chinese manufacturers of solar panels, following a nine-month inquiry, in one of the biggest trade cases of its kind.
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Commission offers two-month window for ‘amicable solution’ as it rows back on 47% tariff

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