The Irish Times

Tsipras bows out as new Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis takes over

Former banker leads centre-right New Democracy party to landslide election win

Mon Jul 08 2019 - 13:17

Greek election: Yanis Varoufakis is back in the game

Former finance minister who clashed with policymakers from Athens to Brussels returns to parliament

Mon Jul 08 2019 - 10:50

Resurgent centre-right party poised for victory in Greek election

Mitsotakis has revamped New Democracy from its cronyism and link to austerity woes

Fri Jul 05 2019 - 16:16

Brexit: The long walk to promised land of an independent Britain

Hardcore Brexiteers remain steadfast on Sunderland to London Leave Means Leave march

Wed Mar 27 2019 - 19:53

Miriam Lord: Áras openness, Michael D and seven more years

President Higgins received a warm letter of congratulations but did Brazil's Bolsonaro?

Sat Nov 03 2018 - 05:14

Ireland is the world’s biggest corporate ‘tax haven’, say academics

Study claims State shelters more multinational profits than the entire Caribbean

Wed Jun 13 2018 - 04:35

Yanis Varoufakis: Ireland a tax haven ‘free-riding’ on Europe

Former Greek finance minister says Ireland remains deeply divided since crash

Tue Jun 12 2018 - 06:28

Sinn Féin and Fine Gael like ‘oil and water: they don’t mix’

Heather Humphreys says the two parties will not share power in a future coalition

Wed Jun 06 2018 - 01:00

Ruadhán Mac Cormaic: Europe’s elites are playing into populists’ hands

Italian president’s veto looked like the establishment trying to stymie the will of the people

Sat Jun 02 2018 - 05:00

Nerds, wonks and a failed finance minister: a visit to Kilkenomics

Discussions on Trump, Brexit, technology and media were some of the topics covered at this year’s economics festival in Kilkenny

Sun Nov 12 2017 - 19:08

Kilkenomics: A topsy-turvy place all about maximising weird interactions

Economists wander in T-shirts, jeans and leather jackets; comedians wear suits and ties

Sat Nov 11 2017 - 22:14

Lucid but flawed: Paschal Donohoe reviews Yanis Varoufakis’s economics primer

An accessible history of capitalism and bank debt reaches disappointing conclusions

Sat Nov 04 2017 - 06:00

Will Macron remain Greece’s only friend in the EU?

Greece Letter: Europe’s changing landscape means more uncertainty in Athens’s relationships

Wed Oct 11 2017 - 01:00

Wolfgang Schäuble departs from German finance ministry

Veteran politician takes over as Bundestag president at critical juncture in parliament’s history

Wed Sept 27 2017 - 17:33

Why Ireland should seriously consider Irexit

EU is a hegemonistic and increasingly militarised political behemoth controlled by Germany

Wed Aug 30 2017 - 01:49

Irish politics is ‘the outraged versus those who want to govern’

Stephen Collins critical of negativity as he speaks at commemoration in Glasnevin

Sun Aug 20 2017 - 20:49

Naomi Klein: ‘Irish leaders drank the Kool Aid’

The writer and activist on Trump, Brexit and the risks in Ireland’s economic policies

Mon Jul 31 2017 - 01:00

Glastonbury highlights: from Corbyn chants to Ed Sheeran via grime

What to catch today and tomorrow, even if you have to watch it on TV

Sat Jun 24 2017 - 12:11

Varadkar and Donohoe should talk to Yanis Varoufakis

Ex-Greek finance minister lays bare lack of accountability in European machine

Tue Jun 20 2017 - 00:45

Macron and Le Pen shift strategies ahead of TV debate

Macron focuses on demonising his rival as Le Pen caught plagiarising Fillon in speech

Tue May 02 2017 - 20:25

Stephen Collins: Worrying signs the past is about to repeat itself

Irish politicians who led us out of financial crisis are not getting the credit for it

Sat Sept 24 2016 - 11:46

Telco veteran Richard Moat breathes in the fresh Eir

The future is bright for Ireland’s biggest communications company, says the former Orange executive

Fri Jul 15 2016 - 07:00

Dalkey Book Festival a delicious cocktail of politics and culture

Eclectic line-up of speakers tackled Turkey, Brexit, Trump and Donna Summer

Mon Jun 20 2016 - 01:00

EU like ‘Hotel California’, you can never leave - Yanis Varoufakis

Former Greek finance minister says his country is now being ‘run by email’

Fri Jun 17 2016 - 10:58

Should everyone in Ireland be paid €752 a month for doing nothing?

Arguments are growing for basic income payments

Tue Jun 14 2016 - 01:00

Yanis Varoufakis: Greece needs an end to this loop of doom

Greece’s absence from headlines seen as a sign economy has stabilised - it has not

Thu Jun 02 2016 - 08:40

The struggle for identity in Greece mirrors that of Ireland

Links even include the Mossack Fonseca Panama firm Green Shamrock Foundation

Fri Apr 22 2016 - 01:00

Varoufakis returns to give Europe a history lesson

Former finance minister analyses crisis in book: ‘And the Weak Suffer what They Must?’

Sat Apr 09 2016 - 07:30

Eamonn McCann: Undemocratic EU may not survive grim challenges

Greek crisis reflects growing notion of every country for itself which undermines union

Thu Apr 07 2016 - 01:00

Yanis Varoufakis warns against ‘grave error’ of Brexit

Former Greek finance minister says UK should ‘fight Brussels from within’

Wed Apr 06 2016 - 12:30

Yanis Varoufakis: Electorate has rejected ‘dead-end policies’

Former Greek finance minister says ‘old regime is dead but the new regime is struggling to be born’

Sat Feb 27 2016 - 21:58

Noonan rejects Varoufakis criticisms as ‘excuses for failure’

Minister says Greek counterpart fired by his prime minister and did not seek re-election

Sat Feb 20 2016 - 16:38

Ballot capers: Hugh Linehan takes sideways look at election

While Stephen Donnelly motors nicely along, the Social Democrats website crashes, twice

Wed Feb 17 2016 - 01:00

Yanis Varoufakis’s star no longer ascendant in troubled Greece

Irish people advised to take dim view of former Greek finance chief’s election stance

Tue Feb 16 2016 - 22:00