“We want to major on competitiveness in the six months of the Irish presidency,” Taoiseach Micheál Martin told a bilateral forum of Irish and French business leaders and officials at the Department of Foreign Affairs’ Iveagh House last week. With less than eight months to the start of Ireland’s rotating presidency of the Council of the EU next July, Martin shared new details of what his Government wants to achieve on the economic front. The competitiveness agenda is nothing new, with a drive to restore Europe’s changes in the global race since last year’s successive reports by Mario Draghi and…

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