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Business Post view: Shocking treatment by Trump of Zelenskyy in Oval Office marks dangerous turning point

The abrupt termination of the meeting and the cancellation of the planned joint press conference signify a breakdown in communication at a critical...

02.03.2025 10

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Business Post View: Relaxing ESG rules must be simplification not deregulation

EU can be both the world’s most competitive economy and the best and cleanest place to live

02.03.2025 10

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Business Post’s View: Cynical leaders have undermined DEI, but it remains key to business success

Some of the worst decisions can emerge from a room full of people who all think the same, look the same and have similar life experiences

23.02.2025 9

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Business Post’s View: Newfound urgency on housing has to be matched by action

It is hardly surprising that substantial long term private capital is becoming scarce

23.02.2025 10

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Business Post View: Alarm bells ringing in Dublin after Trump’s latest tariff tirade

Another tsunami of tariffs is being prepared, and this time they will affect every country with which the US trades

16.02.2025 10

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Business Post View: Arts Council IT debacle is a monument to public waste

What happened here was the systematic erosion of public funds through a toxic mixture of ineptitude and unchecked arrogance

16.02.2025 10

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Business Post View: Bankinter offers a flicker of hope to long-suffering Irish bank customers

Spanish bank’s deepened commitment to Ireland, via its Avant Money operation, marks a significant step towards a more competitive and dynamic...

09.02.2025 10

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Business Post View: Panic and scramble does not equate to a meaningful housing policy

09.02.2025 10

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Business Post View: ECB must continue to cut interest rates to stimulate growth

The gap between the Fed and the ECB also reflects the dawning of a new political age with the arrival in the White House of the unpredictable and...

02.02.2025 20

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Business Post’s View: Expansion of junior ministers reeks of quango culture

The willingness to dilute decision-making in government reflects the fact that the public service has a productivity challenge

02.02.2025 10

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Editorial: State’s exit from AIB will be rightly hailed as triumph

This year should finally see state fully divest from the pillar bank, almost recouping its total investment of €20.8 billion

26.01.2025 10

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Editorial: Coercive nationalism of Trump must be confronted

Europe must regain its mojo and reassert its leadership, but needs Germany to do it

26.01.2025 10

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Editorial: Trump’s return to White House is a moment of great risk to world order

His inauguration suggests the world should brace for four years of disruption and unpredictability

19.01.2025 7

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Business Post View: President Higgins’ naivety on Nato spending exposes blinkered vision

The president’s remarks ignore the fact that Ireland cannot defend its own borders without external assistance

12.01.2025 10

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Business Post View: Aer Lingus must deliver to secure its future within IAG

Described as the ‘runt of the litter’ within the airline group, the former national carrier’s future looks less than certain

12.01.2025 10

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Editorial: Our flush incoming government must finally grasp the nettle and invest in the basics

Rosy economic outlook but next administration has tough choices to make

05.01.2025 5

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Business Post’s view: Nippon Steel blunder shows we are in Late Soviet America

Blocking the Japanese merger of US Steel shows US protectionism has gone mainstream even before Trump takes office

04.01.2025 4

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Editorial: As green wave recedes, political challenge is to accelerate climate action

Even as the political appetite for climate action wanes, a way must be found to ramp it up to unprecedented levels

29.12.2024 3

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Editorial: 2024 was a good year for democracy but little else

As many as 3 billion people cast ballots this year and while the outcomes were often surprising and sometimes dismaying, it was a victory for...

29.12.2024 4

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Editorial: Holyhead delays quickly emerging into major crisis

Damage caused by Storm Darragh has potential to become massive calamity for businesses and hauliers in Ireland

22.12.2024 3

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Editorial: Micheál Martin and Simon Harris look set to get government largely on their terms

Presence of right of centre independents will be a less onerous challenge than Labour or the Social Democrats in office

22.12.2024 6

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Editorial: Crises in Germany and France risk stagnation spread across Europe

Fixing eurozone’s problems requires functioning governments and robust economies, and right now, neither Germany nor France can really claim to...

15.12.2024 3

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Editorial: Task of succeeding Leo Clancy is a test for Ireland’s appetite for success

At this critical juncture for Irish enterprise, we can’t expect champagne leadership on a lemonade budget

15.12.2024 3

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Editorial: Just as Europe needs leadership, a political vacuum has formed

France and Germany are in disarray just at the moment that Europe needs their leadership

08.12.2024 4

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Editorial: Ireland must create the environment for entrepreneurs to thrive, not rest on laurels of past successes

It is easy to celebrate the Irish entrepreneurs but more difficult to create the environment to support it

08.12.2024 3

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Business Post View: In a most uncertain world, Ireland needs a new government and quickly

The verdict of the people will emerge fully today, but we cannot afford another long period of political stalemate

01.12.2024 5

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Business Post at 35: Our 35-year history has seen a country and society transformed

During its 35 years the Business Post has had several owners, each committed to the values of free and independent journalism in the public interest

01.12.2024 4

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Editorial: Manifesto promises on public finances brimming with dishonesty

This election is not a contest of visions for the future, but a referendum on how much fiscal recklessness the public is willing to tolerate

24.11.2024 4

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Business Post View: Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil risk losing grip on victory in parochial spats

They seem to have forgotten that their road back to power snakes through mutual cooperation

17.11.2024 3

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Editorial: COP bandwagon running out of steam as climate crisis worsens

Lack of political leaders in Baku for COP 29 is a clear sign of the conference’s waning influence

17.11.2024 3

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Business Post View: We need a government to deliver progress on taxation, housing and infrastructure

The formal dissolution of the 33rd Dáil has ended the phony war and has kicked General Election 2024 into life

10.11.2024 10

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Business Post’s View: Essential to avoid sinking into Trump derangement syndrome

Trump’s re-election poses both a danger and an opportunity for Ireland and Europe

10.11.2024 5

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Business Post View: Trump’s decisive victory poses real challenges for Ireland

Abject failure of Democratic campaign leaves party in disarray as Republicans likely to control the House and the Senate

06.11.2024 4

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Editorial: Lack of female leaders in public companies a disgraceful indictment of Irish business

At the top, where real influence resides, the old boys’ club remains as resolute as ever

03.11.2024 3

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Editorial: Valencia floods show why we must act now on tackling climate change

The scale of the tragedy calls for European solidarity with our Spanish friends

03.11.2024 1

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Editorial: Minor Luas extension highlights dismal lack of ambition for capital city

Line expansion will make a difference, but if four Luas stops are the extent of our ambition for our lovely, shabby, hard-to-navigate city, we are...

27.10.2024 5

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Editorial: Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil can taste power without the help of anyone else

As Ireland heads toward its 2024 general election, the campaign drums are already beating

27.10.2024 20

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Business Post View: The time for game-playing is over – an election should be called for November 29

20.10.2024 2

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Business Post View: Committing to the capital markets union is critical to restarting Europe’s economy

It is difficult to see how the single market’s competitiveness can be increased without a realignment and streamlining of its many internal capital...

20.10.2024 1

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Editorial: Fintech Monzo’s launch highlights concerns over pillar banks’ Sepa deadline

Another global fintech entering the Irish market; another reminder of how painfully behind the curve Ireland’s banks are when it comes to...

13.10.2024 2

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Editorial: Irish complacency will cost us economic prosperity

The UK is already in many ways a more attractive investment location than Ireland - Irish policymakers can’t afford to let our competitiveness slip...

13.10.2024 2

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Business Post View: Europe-China EV tariff war will see everyone lose out

06.10.2024 1

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Business Post View: Budget 2025 is an exercise in recklessness dressed up as generosity

Scale of spending increases on the current side is of major concern for the future of the public finances

02.10.2024 4

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Business Post View: Budget 2025 is an exercise in recklessness dressed up as generosity

Scale of spending increases on the current side is of major concern for the future of the public finances

01.10.2024 3

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Editorial: OPW has been tone-deaf to public concerns for too long

The extraordinary amounts of money spent on a security hut and a bike shed at Leinster House have put the body in the spotlight for all the wrong...

29.09.2024 4

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Editorial: At a time of plenty, Budget 2025 is a time for Ireland to be bold and ambitious

This government’s final chance to exercise the financial levers of state must seek to make life easier for businesses and citizens

29.09.2024 3

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Editorial: To starve our universities of the funding they need is to betray the future of this country

Our universities are underfunded to the tune of €307 million a year and more than half the research equipment in Irish universities is over a...

22.09.2024 3

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Editorial: Appointment of EU Defence Commissioner an important step forward in dangerous times

After many years of dithering, Europe needs to invest €500 billion in its defence industry over the next decade

22.09.2024 3

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Editorial: Despite defeat, Apple fight was worth having to protect our tax independence

To do otherwise would have been to surrender the principle that taxation is a national competence, not an EU one

15.09.2024 3

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Editorial: Taoiseach, pass your budget and go before the people on November 15

Prolonging the term only exposes them to the pitfalls of an Irish winter

15.09.2024 3

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