Germany’s top business lobby says industry remains fully behind Ireland’s stance

Also a summer school for bankers, and talk by Gert-Jan Koopman on EU budgets

UK to crash out of EU in October, predicts Douglas Carswell

Business Week: Also in the news was Government spending; tourism; and housing

A new study highlights the potential economic fallout of restrictions to free movement of services

Donald Tusk has warned a no-deal Brexit is‘more likely than ever.’ But if it happens it could be chaotic

Nova UCD has a briefing session focusing on 5G, which is becoming visible on the horizon

Tesco reports as does Delta plus economic indicators and meetings

Ivan Rogers says dispute over Border backstop has ‘soured the mood quite a bit’

UN special envoy for the Ocean says without beef and car ownership ‘life is perfectly okay’

This Week: Big week for banks as SME lending stays weak amid Brexit caution

December’s consumer spending will show how real the threat of e-commerce is to traditional retail

Your business this week: ECB meeting, Irish unemployment figures, consumer confidence

Leading US economist also supports digital tax on global technology companies

Former president urges every citizen to make the climate issue personal; to recycle, to reuse and to look at their consumption

EU’s chief Brexit negotiator says there will be no new border between NI and rest of UK

Central Bank governor reveals extent of house repossession in Ireland since crisis

Quinn warned Brexit was ‘the greatest existential threat Ireland has faced in peace time’

There is nothing to be gained by adopting an aggressive stance with British government

State has vested interest in supporting EU negotiating stance on UK exit

Top Brussels aide says UK media will ‘change mood music’ and make talks more difficult

Volker Türk says people of Ireland know well what is meant by flight and migration

UK’s departure from EU will have a seismic political impact on both sides of the Border

Avoiding hard Border will require significant concessions from EU partners

We urgently need to take account of overall state of EU and risk of disintegration

Foreign minister cites concerns about future of Japanese firms in UK

Philip Lane said Ireland was still on track for a broad based recovery

In the negotiations that will soon begin on the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, the Irish Government will attempt to strike a delicate balance

The stakes are high: if UK voters vote to withdraw they will be the first to leave union

Charlie Flanagan says Government is committed to working for acceptable deal

Strenuous denial in Carey statement may indicate determination to fight

European Union’s data protection supervisor says relations with US at a crossroads

Michael McGrath says allowing Drumm to give evidence via video would be ‘grave error’

Consequences of bailing in senior bondholders could have ‘far outweighed the gains’

Ireland must assess and analyse Brexit implications with rigorous logic

‘Libya has not reached the point at which Northern Ireland’s peace process began to move to dialogue’

Germany’s Europe minister says Berlin ready to take on a leading role in EU’s future

A recent ruling has ended data retention, says Jan Philipp Albrecht, but digital privacy remains an issue

World View: ‘Sovereign’ is one of the most abused words in the Irish political lexicon, a sacred cow