Other Catholic Western European countries- France, Spain, Portugal and Italy- all had very significant ones while as the Communist Parties in Protestant countries like England and Holland were not ...

Racist riots in the UK finding alarming support among 18% of people polled. Is Ireland likely to remain immune to such racism?

An interview on Newstalk earlier today exposed the lack of transparency on when water facilities would be made available from the monopoly Irish Water for a housing project. News reports suggest such ...

Private water companies are regulated utility monopolies in the USA, not a competitive market. Typically, regulators allow a net profit return on total assets in a premium related to prevailing ...

Economics 101 teaches free products are vastly over consumed and the lack of prices starves investment. Define overconsumption of water. And provide some numbers about who and how much water is wasted ...

Germany is probably doing alright if you measure by value instead of by units. Germany has the luxury car market almost nailed down. I heard of an analysis done of this which makes for interesting ...

It's nothing personal. Ireland was just one country among many. The individual interests of every country couldn't be protected in such a loose framework agreement Of course VDL naturally was inclined ...

It is a pity few people do not spot "kayfabe" when they see it. Trump will do his strut about his brilliant deal, but he did the same thing about his "Japan Deal". And the Japanese deny it is what he ...

Well, yeah, Starmer doesn't look like he's winning much, but looks aren't everything. He seems to have secured a better deal with Trump than Von der Leyen managed---in part undermining one of the ...

The EU offer was zero tariffs both ways, but Trump sees tariffs as a way of making money for the US Treasury (and therefore, himself, as he is creative in ways of making money from the taxpayer).

Orbán says Trump 'ate' EU chief 'for breakfast' in trade talks "This is not an agreement ... (President) Donald Trump ate (European Commission President) Von der Leyen for breakfast, this is what ...

It is an awful deal for Europe. We swallow 15pc tariffs on areas of trade that we don't have direct competition on whereas the US is tariff free on areas we compete with them on like aircraft. Macron ...