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

When the Arab spring surged into full force, most Europeans hailed the revolutionary events as a t(...)

Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Greek prime minister Antonis Samaras at a news briefing in Athens today. Photograph: Yorgos Karahalis/Reuters

Ireland is a model for Greece on how to exit the crisis and return to the money markets, the Greek prime minister told Taoiseach Enda Kenny in (...)

Germans lamented their unexpectedly poor showing at the Eurovision Song Contest, blaming chancellor Angela Merkel’s tough stance in the euro zo(...)

The report by the Brussels-based Bruegal thinktank argues that in hindsight Greek sovereign debt should have been written down at the outset

Ireland’s EU-IMF bailout has been broadly successful, according to a new reports by a leading Europ(...)

Betfair  said  negotiations with CVC Capital Partners had foundered on strategy. Photograph: Graham Turner

Private equity firm CVC Capital Partners has ended a £1 billion (€1.17 billion) attempt to buy online betting exchange Betfair after the two co(...)

Betfair, which sponsors  the snooker Betfair World Championships, has rejected the latest bid from CVC Capital Partners. Photograph: Lynne Cameron/PA Wire

Betfair and CVC Capital Partners have ended takeover discussions after the private equity firm said it would not make a third revised offer for(...)

Kieran McLoughlin (centre), president and chief executive of The American Ireland Fund, with from left, delegates Caitlin McCormick (New York), Reilly O’Connor (Washington DC),  Jennifer Carroll (Dublin) and John Travers (Dublin) at the The Ireland Funds Inaugural Global Young Leaders Forum held in Farmleigh, Phoenix Park in June 2010. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh

The US State Department’s prolific communications department is proof of the influence that the United States aims to have on world affairs. It(...)

German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble has confirmed that Berlin could live without treaty change to get the promised European banking union off the ground. Photograph: AFP

Far from easing up, Berlin is anxious to maintain reform pressure on crisis-hit euro area countries, according to a leaked mem(...)

[From left] German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble, British chancellor George Osborne, IMF managing director  Christine Lagarde and Canada’s finance minister Jim Flaherty at the Global Investment Conference 2013 in London. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/Reuters

German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble signalled support for an easing of Europe’s austerity drive as he prepared to face pressure from glob(...)

A detail of We The People by Danh Vo, now at Lismore Castle Arts

In the monumental setting of Lismore Castle in Co Waterford, Mark Sladen has curated an exhibition, (...)

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