Populist leaders claim to solve complex problems with simple solutions. In practice, they sow confidence-wracking uncertainty.
Top Part, run by the Dillane brothers, is being acquired by France’s Autodistribution, a company ultimately controlled by the owner of Autoglass and Moleskin.
Frustrated by the slow pace of investigations in Brussels, critics of Elon Musk’s social network and its influence on politics are targeting X’s Dublin office through their national authorities.
The group owned by the Queally and Browne families exited Elivia last year to focus on the UK instead. It is now clearer what returns it received from France’s number-two beef processor – and why it chose to leave.
Egis makes over €100 million of its €2.3 billion revenue in Ireland. The French engineering group’s CEO Laurent Germain wants to double this and is on the hunt for more Irish acquisitions.
The UK seems to be over the chaos of nationalist rule at the time France faces into its own version of it. Despite the temptation to see this cycle as a one-off, there are reasons to fear the longer-term impact of populist politics, write Thomas Hubert in Paris and Michael Cogley in London.
Candidates in the EU’s second-largest economy have traded barbs on deficits and profligate promises. The Eurogroup president is warning against breaking fiscal rules and adding debt in a high interest rate environment.
France is grappling with the cost-of-living crisis and facing into the Olympics but its president is forcing the electorate to make deep ideological choices. Nobody knows how this story ends.
French bond rate spreads could blow out if Emmanuel Macron’s high-risk election gamble doesn’t work out. This time, the euro is safe, however.
Thomas Byrne, the Minister of State for Sport, and Elena Pecos, the head of Decathlon Ireland, recently swapped notes on the business of sport – from the French retailer's move into Clery's to funding for national facilities.
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