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Mercosur–EU: What this deal really means

The Mercosur–EU agreement is less about tariff lines and more about repositioning Latin America and Europe in a more fragmented global economy. It creates a 700‑million‑consumer free trade area covering close to 30% of global GDP, but the real story is how governments and investors can use this framework to…

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Choose Europe

Seeing the diversity of places and economic visions competing for investor attention at MIPIM earlier this month, against a backdrop of an increasingly hostile and protectionist US, made me think…

Ireland in the middle!

EU – UK – US – Global Trade Diplomacy Almost 12 months on from the initial Covid lockdown, almost 2 months since Brexit became a reality and now we find…

Why Germany gets out of this crisis strong

With 750,000 companies filed for government support during the corona crisis and a dire IMF forecast of -7.0% GDP growth, Germany’s economy is clearly taking a severe hit in…

And the winner is…

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…

Special Relationships put to the test

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…

An update from Ireland

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…

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