On 12 October the House of Commons Science & Technology and Health and Social Care Committees published their report into the UK Government’s handling of the Coronavirus Pandemic (the Report).
The Report focused on six main areas
Last month, the US-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC) held its inaugural ministerial in Pittsburgh: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, and Trade Representative Katherine Tai met with European Commissioners Margrethe Vestager and Valdis Dombrovskis. Only three months after the TTC process was launched at the US-EU summit, the two sides
The European Commission Vice President and Co-Chair of the Europe-UK Joint Committee, Maroš Šefčovič, spoke to a meeting of the Irish Institute of International and European Affairs yesterday about the Ireland/Northern Ireland protocol. He spoke of the political risk and the efforts being made to reach a compromise between the EU and the UK on
On October 4, 2021, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced during a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., that the United States would be launching a new trade strategy toward China. Tai’s announcement comes on the heels of a months-long, comprehensive review of the U.S. trade policy toward China,
The Irish authorities are currently preparing a number of interesting pieces of new legislation – some to simply deal with Covid or to comply with European requirements, others relating to more domestic issues and a number will implement international obligations. However surprisingly few are Brexit related.
Traditionally there are an average of over 60 new
A number of recent reports have raised the question of how much of existing hydrocarbon reserves can be used if the world is to meet the Paris Goal of no more than 1.5 degrees of global warming. This blog examines the conclusions of the most recent of those reports, published in the journal Nature, in
Ireland is beginning to emerge from the shades of Covid with almost full opening of the economy now planned for October 22nd. It brings with it some significant changes to working lives, education and business and while the signals are optimistic, caution is in the air.
The Irish have followed a conservative approach to the
In December 2020, the UK PM set out an ambitious 10 Point Plan for a green industrial revolution, one of the key points of which was the production of 5 GW of low carbon hydrogen in the UK by 2030. The Plan envisaged hydrogen playing a key role in decarbonising energy-intensive industries and heavy transport