Someone’s gotta pay for people’s bad decisions.
The American President desires to make us his economic servants. We should join gladly with other European countries in an effort to resist him.
This whole event has become one of those things for the Irish Media where all are agreed that the Green Jersey is paramount and whatever sacrifices of dignity must be made are bearable.
Concern around Trump’s trade policy
A full national debate on what we might call “net zero” is long overdue
Bundesbank
“Choosing to be a discreetly parasitic fluke is one thing, but quite another for the fluke to perform a Michael Flatley-type liver-dance in public, effectively taunting the Americans over their stupidity.”
Help families instead
Readers who observe these things will also perhaps note the grovelling being done by the Irish Government towards the new Trump administration
While the EU’s CBAM is presented as a solution to climate change, it risks creating more problems than it solves, affecting Europe’s competitiveness and businesses, as well as impacting developing countries.
While the snobbish hostilities of Taoisigh Enda Kenny and Leo Varadkar towards the first Trump Administration did much for their egos, it did little good for Ireland as a whole.
The US is choosing growth. We’re choosing to save the planet. Our policies don’t work in this framework.