Ireland

Ireland continues to limp towards its climate commitments – Unwilling or unable to comply?5
- Environment and Energy, Op-ed
- 16/09/2017
Still showing the wounds of the global economic crisis and in the midst of the greatest political minefield of a generation in Brexit, Ireland has sought to address the challenges of climate change with the recent unveiling of the National Mitigation Plan (NMP). However, as the dust has settled, what has become evident is that it is less of an actual action plan and more of a discussion document, tasking questions in the form of “what could be done” rather than “how they can be done”. The lack of bite in the document drew a not unexpected collective sigh of disappointment from the environmental community.
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Apple, Ireland and the EU: considerations on just corporate tax regimes 15
- EU Governance and Politics, Financial Policy and International Markets, Op-ed
- 16/10/2016
The preferential treatment granted by Ireland effectively configures as state aid, a practice which is not only incompatible with the internal market principles of free competition and non-discrimination, but also unethical.
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Modern slavery in the Irish fishing industry: a labor or migration question?0
- Human Rights and Migration, Op-ed
- 16/12/2015
Recently the British newspaper The Guardian has released an exclusive story on the plight of migrant workers in the fishing industry in Ireland, who were subjected to deplorable conditions of work aboard the country’s vessels. According to the daily’s investigation, African and Asian fishermen undergo different kinds of abuses onboard, such as suffering sleep deprivation, having no days off, working long and unpaid overtime, arbitrary retention of salaries and passports, constraint of freedom of movement, verbal and physical abuses, among others.
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