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Irish Air Line Pilots Association estimates there are about 6,000 unemployed pilots in Europe today

Concerned pilots say deregulation has undermined their work

Work
July 27, 2017

Many pilots will never be hired despite paying enormous fees for training

Polish prime minister Beata Szydlo: said her government was open to discussions. Photograph: Balazs Mohai/EPA

EU has Poland in its sights over attempted judicial reform

Europe
July 26, 2017

Poland may get formal warning for ‘serious and persistent breaches’ of EU values

Last Friday it emerged that, in July 2016, Volkswagen told European Commission competition investigators of secret meetings with its German competitors, dating back 14 years, to discuss production and components, including elements related to the diesel emissions scandal

Volkswagen, Daimler in crisis meetings over cartel claims

Manufacturing
July 26, 2017

If EU competition law is found to be breached the companies could face fines of up to 10% of turnover

Airline passenger data: governments in Europe have stepped up their arguments in favour of data retention after a spate of militant attacks in recent years

Top EU court says deal on sharing airline passenger names must be changed

World
July 26, 2017

ECJ says Europe-Canada arrangement goes beyond what is needed to fight terrorism

Ian Bailey: he has appealed a High Court jury’s dismissal of his claim that various gardaí conspired to frame him for the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier

Ruling not to extradite Bailey to face trial in France ‘scandalous’

Irish News
July 26, 2017

Mother of Sophie Toscan du Plantier says she is ‘very unhappy’

Germany has been the biggest critic of ECB’s €2.3 trillion money-printing programme

IMF says ECB should maintain stimulus, calls for end are ‘premature’

Economy
July 25, 2017

Euro zone should set ambitious targets to cut banks’ bad loans, according to IMF

Allegations have been made that Volkswagen, BMW, Daimler, Audi and Porsche were colluding in the 1990s and formed a cartel which possibly laid the basis to the ‘dieselgate’ emission scandal.

What is the latest scandal to hit the German car industry all about?

Motors
July 25, 2017

EU regulator expected to take a tough line over allegations of cartel-like behaviour

Apple store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan: the Department of Finance said it and Apple had agreed to seek the services of custodian and investment managers to oversee Apple’s contested multibillion-euro Irish tax bill. Photograph: Mike Segar

Money managers to earn €15m a year minding Apple’s cash

Economy
July 25, 2017

Department of Finance to seek a custodian and investment managers for Apple funds

This year Google is expected to generate about $73.75bn in net digital ad revenue worldwide, a 17.8% jump from a year earlier. Photograph: Reuters/Christian Hartmann

Google’s EU fine drags down parent company’s profits 28%

Technology
July 24, 2017

Alphabet’s revenue boosted by robust demand for ads on mobile and YouTube

‘Car-hire companies operate like low-fare airlines, with top-line prices looking good with bottom lines enhanced through the sale of last minute add-ons to people who are frequently stressed-out, confused and tired after long flights.’ Photograph: Getty Images

Holiday hint: Avoid car-hire damage fees with annual policy

Travel
July 24, 2017

Tourists to other countries can face extra bills of over €1,000 when they return hire cars

It is estimated that Apple will have to pay between €13 billion and €15 billion, including interest, pending the outcome of the legal appeals. Photograph: Reuters

Apple’s Irish tax funds to be held in ‘low risk’ investments

Economy
July 24, 2017

Successful custodian in charge of escrow account needs to have handled more than €3 trillion of assets in past three years

People demonstrate in front of the presidential palace in Warsaw on Monday. Photograph: Janek Skarzynski/AFP/Getty Images

Poland’s president vetoes controversial judicial bills

Europe
July 24, 2017

Reform laws passed by parliament triggered nationwide demonstrations

Volkswagen Golfs are loaded in a delivery tower at the plant of German carmaker Volkswagen in Wolfsburg, Germany. Photograph: Reuters

Volkswagen calls crisis meeting to discuss EU cartel inquiry

Transport & Tourism
July 24, 2017

German auto stocks took a hit in early trading over uncertainty relating to fines

UK secretary of state for exiting the European Union David Davis (left) and the European Commission’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier at the start of a first full round of talks on Britain’s divorce terms from the European Union. Photograph: REUTERS/Yves Herman

Players sit down for second hand of Brexit poker game

Business
July 22, 2017

Business Week: also in the news was house prices, mortgages, INM, and Budget 2018

The summer of 1992 was when everything changed, when the stranglehold a handful of high-priced flag-carrying airlines had held over all Europeans started to loosen.

How low fares took off: a revolution in the skies

Travel
July 22, 2017

It’s 25 years since cheap, frequent air travel began – and it’s down to the EU just as much as it is to Michael O’Leary and Ryanair

Paper nautilus: a glossy white fan of a shell, so fragile that the sun infused it, gleaming through every tight fold. Illustration: Michael Viney

On the equiangular spiral and how the narwhal got its horn

Environment
July 22, 2017

Michael Viney: D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson belongs on the same shelf as Charles Darwin

Catherine Day: Heading a new review of the role of voluntary hospitals in the publicly funded health service. Photograph: Cyril Byrne / THE IRISH TIMES

Former EU official to head review of voluntary hospitals in health service

Irish News
July 21, 2017

Harris wants three-person panel to report within a year

Paschal Donohoe: he denied the Christmas bonus payment would be sacrificed to pay for water charge refunds

Donohoe confirms Christmas bonus will be paid at end of year

Politics
July 20, 2017

Minister insists economy is not at risk of overheating despite warnings

The Oireachtas committee on water charges and the confidence and supply agreement commits to equity for those who paid water charges against those who did not

Fianna Fáil asks why water grant cannot be recouped

Politics
July 20, 2017

Over 190,000 people claimed conservation grant but did not pay any Irish Water bills

German Advocate General Juliane Kokott has told the European Court of Justice that Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner was wrong to say accountancy trainee Peter Nowak had no right to access the script of a failed exam. Photograph: John Thys/AFP/Getty Images

Irish student wins support in legal battle over exam script

Irish News
July 20, 2017

Advocate General tells European court that exam scripts do constitute ‘personal data’

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