Vaccine suppliers Pfizer and Moderna have raised the prices of their COVID-19 vaccines in the contracts made with the European Union, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The newspaper said it had seen part of the new supply contracts showing a price hike for the Pfizer shot to 19.50 euros from 15.50 euros previously. The […]
EU yet to confirm if it will accept outcome.
Despite all the recent troubles with Russia or Belarus, the EU diplomats know well that, as The Economist put it not so long ago, the Taiwan Strait is geopolitically the most challenging part of the world. Any conflict in this area could draw major nuclear power into a war, over an island, which is not […]
Sixteen European political parties, including some who are in government, have launched what they call a ‘Manifesto for Freedom” saying the EU is “becoming a tool of radical forces” who aim to build a “European superstate” to cancel “European traditions” and ‘transform moral principles’. The context of the document is the recent attempt by the […]
In 1962, President John F Kennedy committed to “an across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes.” The tax system, he argued, “exerts too heavy a drag on growth; it siphons out of the private economy too large a share of personal and business purchasing power; it reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, […]
EU could halt pandemic recovery payments.
Simon Coveney, last week: RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel Al-Jubeir on Wednesday held a meeting at the ministry’s headquarters in Riyadh with the Irish Foreign and Defense Minister Simon Coveney. The two sides discussed during the meeting bilateral relations and means to develop them and exchanged views on regional and […]
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The EU worked to ensure that China was not openly criticised at the recent G7 summit for using slave labour in Xinjiang. “EU leaders blocked efforts to name and shame Beijing for using slave labour,” the Times reports. It says that Mario Draghi, Italy’s prime minister, along with Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, and Ursula von […]
Biden administration accused Boris Johnson of “inflaming tensions” in Northern Ireland.
A Cork TD has accused both the Taoiseach and the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine of gross negligence and failing in their duty to protect the Irish Fishing sector. Rural Independent TD Michael Collins said that he had challenged the Taoiseach, the Minister and the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) on what he […]
“Amazon pays all the taxes required in every country where we operate,” the spokesman said.