Simon Coveney: brokered a compromise text

Agreement on an EU fish management policy that copperfastens a ban on discards at sea has edged closer, following 36 hours of (...)

Suzanne Lynch, European Correspondent, in Brussels Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney has said an agreement with other fisheries mini(...)

Minister for Finance Michael Noonan rings the bell prior to an economic and financial affairs meeting yesterday, at the EU headquarters in Brussels.

Minister for Finance Michael Noonan yesterday defended Ireland’s corporate tax regime, following a meeting of EU finance minis(...)

Minister for Finance Michael Noonan with Eurogroup president Jeroen Dijsselbloem (left) and EU commissioner Olli Rehn in Brussels yesterday. Photograph: AP

Minister for Finance Michael Noonan has given the strongest signal yet that Ireland may avail of the European Central B(...)

Tricky manoeuvres on tax

Finance Minister Michael Noonan, as chairman of the European Union’s finance ministers during Ireland’s time as president of the European counc(...)

Google’s European headquarters in Dublin: a House of Commons committee accused companies such as Starbucks, Google and Amazon of “immoral” use of secretive jurisdictions, royalty arrangements and complex company structures to avoid paying tax in Britain. Photograph: Cyril Byrne

When European finance ministers gather this week in Brussels, discussion won’t purely focus on Europe’s response to the latest phase of the fin(...)

Garret FitzGerald helped make Ireland a “psychological insider” within the European Union. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh

Europe Day was marked yesterday with the inaugural Garret FitzGerald Memorial Lecture, when the former taoiseach was praised for making his gre(...)

Ibec chief executive  Danny McCoy: “We can take our foot off the brakes a bit”. Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times

The employers group Ibec has added its voice to those calling for an easing up on austerity, urging the Government to a(...)

The Irish public perception of Europe has been seriously challenged in recent times. Set against the backdrop of the economic malaise that has (...)

President Michael D Higgins and European Parliament president Martin Schulz addressing journalists during a press briefing at the European Parliament in Strasbourg last month.

ARTHUR BEESLEY Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore said President Michael D Higgins’ remarks on European policy in a forthright interview in today’s(...)

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