Powerhouses like Germany want smaller contributions from member states. Some are afraid a new EU digital levy will only enrage Donald Trump after Google's latest GDPR fine. Where is the middle ground?
Administration prepares sweeping sanctions that would cut the court off from much of the global financial system, writes Matthew Dalton and Alexander Ward, The Wall Street Journal.
Lawmakers are hiring AI advisers, working to influence chatbot results and churning out AI-generated ads faster than regulators can keep up, writes Anat Peled, The Wall Street Journal.
Stripped of its assets by Chávez and Maduro, packaging giant Smurfit has spent years hunting down hundreds of millions in compensation. Then Trump came along.
Catering to singles in their mid-20s to mid-60s, Your Friend My Friend is tackling the loneliness epidemic with good old-fashioned in-person events. And they’re selling out.
Flights and hotels are now customary expenses, in addition to gifts. But invitations aren’t obligations, writes Perri Ormont Blumberg, The Wall Street Journal.
People would cycle from the remotest parts of Munster to watch the two greatest hurlers of their era take to a playing field. In an extract from his new book, Arthur James O'Dea explains how Mackey's Limerick shaped the first hurling boom.
Long-simmering worries about the technology’s potential dangers have exploded into global consciousness since Jacob Coxon’s dire warning, write Amrith Ramkumar, Erin Woo, Berber Jin and Ben Cohen, The Wall Street Journal.
Gary Murphy’s new biography of Brian Cowen shines a light on a Taoiseach whose time in office was grim and negative. Murphy talks to Dion Fanning about Cowen’s legacy, his relationship with drink and the bank guarantee.
Sir John Griffin, founder of UK private car service Addison Lee, tried to argue he was domiciled in Ireland for UK tax purposes. A tribunal judgment handed down this week did not find in his favour.
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