We are experiencing some truly unprecedented times in Germany, where 725,000 enterprises (as of April 15th) announced short time work including BMW, Daimler and Volkswagen. SMEs face previously unimaginable rejections…
Every day we are bombarded with images of empty shelves and long queues in front of supermarkets from around the world. These images have spurred speculation of impending scarcity of…
The last few weeks have seen multiple new words and phrases quickly become a regular part of our news cycle. Some such as ‘flatten the curve’, ‘social distancing’, are self-explanatory. …
The economic environment we are all facing into is like nothing we have faced before. An inevitable casualty of the global battle against Covid-19 will be cross-border foreign direct investment…
Just when we thought things could not get any worse for globally minded companies with protectionism, tit for tat tariff barriers and tough immigration policies set against them, along comes…
Last Friday 27th March saw the Irish government take drastic action to combat the spread of COVID-19. The country was essentially placed in a lockdown situation, with the exception of…
