by chrismmgordon | Feb 26, 2015 | News
The former chief executive of the body that manages government debt has said he is “aghast” at the surge in the cost of our borrowing on international markets. Addressing the Association of European Journalist (AEJ) today (September 17), Mr Michael Somers,...
by chrismmgordon | Feb 26, 2015 | News
The European Commission is to set up a European Vacancy Monitor which will give up-to-the minute information on job vacancies across the whole of the European Union, the Director of the European Commission Representation Office in Dublin said today (September 15). In...
by chrismmgordon | Feb 26, 2015 | News
Allowing Anglo-Irish Bank to collapse would have had enormous consequences, newly appointed chairman Alan Dukes told the June AEJ lunch (June 24). In a largely off-the-record address to members, he said the aim of management was now to spread the huge losses over as...
by chrismmgordon | Feb 26, 2015 | News
Ireland must become more pro-active in the post-Lisbon Treaty Europe and encourage a better response from the organs of Government, Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin told the AEJ today (5 May). Addressing the May lunch which also marked World Press...
by chrismmgordon | Feb 26, 2015 | News
An outline of the causes of the economic crisis in Ireland and how the Government was dealing with them was given in an off-the-record address to the AEJ on March 3 by Dr Alan Ahearne, Advisor to the Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan TD. There was a large attendance...
by chrismmgordon | Feb 26, 2015 | News
Ireland’s outgoing EU Commissioner, Charlie McCreevy today (December 18) launched a caustic attack on President Nicolas Sarkozy of France and on the extent of French power and influence in the EU. In a speech to the Association of European Journalists in Dublin, Mr...