The Westmeath Fine Gael TD Peter Burke is seven weeks into his new role as minister for enterprise, trade and employment when he meets The Currency for the first time. There is a short window for our interview in his dark wood-panelled office at the art deco department building on Dublin’s Kildare Street before he flies to Brussels for this week’s meeting of the council of EU trade ministers. The trip is nothing new to him – he was previously minister of state for European affairs. We therefore get down to business straight away and I ask him about the…

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