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width_100" style="max-width:970px"><div id="arcad_f0fS6eZ86sMH6QW-1844e4004f8f3f" class="arcad ad-970x90"></div></div></div><hr class="c-divider b-it-divider-block"/><div class="c-grid b-it-header-block"><div class="b-it-header-block__header-block align-center font-normal "><div class="c-stack b-it-header-block__heading-h5 align-center font-normal" data-style-direction="horizontal" data-style-justification="start" data-style-alignment="center" data-style-inline="false" data-style-wrap="nowrap"><div class="c-stack headline-block" data-style-direction="vertical" data-style-justification="start" data-style-alignment="unset" data-style-inline="false" data-style-wrap="nowrap" style="--c-stack-gap:0"><h2 as="h5" class="c-heading align-center font-normal margin_none">HIGHLIGHTS</h2></div></div></div></div><div id="lazy_81814" class="lazy_container"><div class="b-flex-chain"><div class="b-flex-chain__grid-container b-flex-chain__grid-container__444 gap"><div class="c-stack grid-item " 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data-chromatic="ignore" alt="‘They destroyed this moment of joy’: On the frontlines of the Israeli incursion into Syria" class="c-image b-flex-promo-card__mobile-image-3-2 b-flex-promo-card__desktop-image-3-2" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/WQXVIENDFBBYXGR6KC524Y7CFA.jpg?smart=true&auth=79720579084f6052d56b7764ad6dca8944cdcc9155a7db41c08be46e4986420c&width=800&height=533" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/WQXVIENDFBBYXGR6KC524Y7CFA.jpg?smart=true&auth=79720579084f6052d56b7764ad6dca8944cdcc9155a7db41c08be46e4986420c&width=200&height=133 200w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/WQXVIENDFBBYXGR6KC524Y7CFA.jpg?smart=true&auth=79720579084f6052d56b7764ad6dca8944cdcc9155a7db41c08be46e4986420c&width=400&height=266 400w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/WQXVIENDFBBYXGR6KC524Y7CFA.jpg?smart=true&auth=79720579084f6052d56b7764ad6dca8944cdcc9155a7db41c08be46e4986420c&width=600&height=399 600w, 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data-style-alignment="unset" data-style-inline="false" data-style-wrap="nowrap"><div class="c-stack b-flex-promo-list-block" data-style-direction="vertical" data-style-justification="start" data-style-alignment="unset" data-style-inline="false" data-style-wrap="nowrap" style="--c-stack-gap:1rem"><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__top c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet c-it-border--desktop"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/world/us/2025/04/06/it-makes-me-sick-mass-anti-trump-protests-in-us-cities-see-americans-express-their-fear-and-loathing/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img fetchpriority="low" data-chromatic="ignore" alt="‘It makes me sick’: Mass anti-Trump protests in US cities see Americans express their fear and loathing" class="c-image b-flex-promo-card__mobile-image-3-2 b-flex-promo-card__desktop-image-3-2" loading="lazy" 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href="/world/asia-pacific/2025/04/05/we-try-to-assist-the-seed-of-belief-popes-deal-with-communist-party-draws-criticism-from-some-catholics-2/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img fetchpriority="low" data-chromatic="ignore" alt="‘We try to assist the seed of belief’: Pope’s deal with Communist party in China draws criticism from some Catholics" class="c-image b-flex-promo-card__mobile-image-3-2 b-flex-promo-card__desktop-image-3-2" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/7W5FI3PNWRCAXEVWZB46ZIHD2Q.jpg?focal=3335%2C1295&auth=49a5c0f6f19a01c79378cb0cd8531ec8c9066b37401720db7ccaa8ef5548a5e9&width=800&height=533" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/7W5FI3PNWRCAXEVWZB46ZIHD2Q.jpg?focal=3335%2C1295&auth=49a5c0f6f19a01c79378cb0cd8531ec8c9066b37401720db7ccaa8ef5548a5e9&width=200&height=133 200w, 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class="c-link font-normal" href="/world/asia-pacific/2025/04/05/we-try-to-assist-the-seed-of-belief-popes-deal-with-communist-party-draws-criticism-from-some-catholics-2/">‘We try to assist the seed of belief’: Pope’s deal with Communist party in China draws criticism from some Catholics</a></h3></div></div></article></div></div><div class="c-stack grid-item " data-style-direction="vertical" data-style-justification="start" data-style-alignment="unset" data-style-inline="false" data-style-wrap="nowrap"><div id="arcad-feature-f0fqxzho6sMH66A-1cd64b4ce3edc7" class="default__StyledAdUnit-sc-1moicrg-0 kjbLvz arcad-feature" style="--mobile-display:block;--tablet-display:block;--desktop-display:block"><div class="arcad-container width_100" style="max-width:fluidpx"><div id="arcad_f0fqxzho6sMH66A-1cd64b4ce3edc7" class="arcad ad-fluid"></div></div></div><div id="fusion-static-enter:html-block-f0fuMJ29mbuP7CU" style="display:none" data-fusion-component="html-block-f0fuMJ29mbuP7CU"></div><div><hr class></div><div id="fusion-static-exit:html-block-f0fuMJ29mbuP7CU" style="display:none" data-fusion-component="html-block-f0fuMJ29mbuP7CU"></div><div class="c-stack b-flex-promo-list-block" data-style-direction="vertical" data-style-justification="start" data-style-alignment="unset" data-style-inline="false" data-style-wrap="nowrap" style="--c-stack-gap:1rem"><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__top"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/world/europe/2025/04/05/i-think-putin-is-testing-trump-to-see-how-far-he-can-go-and-how-many-advantages-he-can-get/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img fetchpriority="low" data-chromatic="ignore" alt="I think Putin is testing Trump, to see how far he can go and how many advantages he can get" class="c-image b-flex-promo-card__mobile-image-3-2 b-flex-promo-card__desktop-image-3-2" loading="lazy" 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https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/MKIIR6BDWFGN7BMAT2IJHM5F5E.jpg?focal=647%2C844&auth=a23a83559bfe6255d8d4b0abc944952707b622a268c6faf92c703935fef3c11a&width=1200&height=799 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 400px, (max-width: 800px) 50vw, 100vw" width="800" height="533"/></a></figure><div class="b-flex-promo-card__text"><div class="b-flex-promo-card__text-no-overline"><h3 class="c-heading c-heading__md-sm text-align_center"><a class="c-link font-normal" href="/world/europe/2025/04/05/i-think-putin-is-testing-trump-to-see-how-far-he-can-go-and-how-many-advantages-he-can-get/">I think Putin is testing Trump, to see how far he can go and how many advantages he can get</a></h3></div></div></article></div></div></div></div></div><hr class="c-divider b-it-divider-block"/><div class="c-grid b-it-header-block"><div class="b-it-header-block__header-block align-center font-normal "><div class="c-stack b-it-header-block__heading-h5 align-center font-normal" data-style-direction="horizontal" 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Ireland stands to take a significant economic hit, as one of the biggest exporters to the US in the bloc.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HIQOQZCF6VECHEUPBZU3TRLGZI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743786311243},"content":"The tariffs, which are effectively taxes on imports, will make it much more costly for EU businesses to sell products in the US. These extra costs are expected to be passed on to US customers in the form of higher prices, likely choking off the flow of future trade.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MX7WUJTNUFC5LEJYCGWBDEAOPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743786311244},"content":"Mr Harris is in Luxembourg on Monday for a meeting of EU trade ministers, to debate the size and scope of the EU’s retaliation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TQDCGDTS4ZEEFEMYSAMPZUQRMA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743786311245},"content":"Already there are signs of division between the 27 national governments. Some states, such as France, favour a strong EU reaction that hits back hard. 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The import duties would start to kick in the following week.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ACDXYGAU2BFJZLKR4KEVHMLBSY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Nasdaq heads for bear territory as markets continue to retreat","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"473PH3AQXJFOZLTRLZVOWELODY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743786311250},"content":"The proposed list of products to be subjected to retaliatory tariffs is mostly made up of signature US goods, as well as industries concentrated in Republican states. 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Some want this to include measures on the trade of services, bringing US tech and social media giants into the crosshairs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XNUHWDGF4VB7ZHJDHGMNJOKFPM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743786311256},"content":"Mr Trump has consistently complained that the EU sells more goods to the US than it buys.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EN3OPORUWRERTFP4PH5667BMTE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743786311257},"content":"Tariffs are his blunt instrument of choice to rebalance what he views as unequal trading relationships, by collecting a cut from those who want to do business with the US. The higher a country’s perceived trade imbalance with the US, the higher the rate of tariffs they have to pay.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J6CUNJXRVBBHXBBJLALUBZS6L4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743786311258},"content":"When it comes to services, the US has a trade surplus with the EU. So bringing the economic output of US tech companies into the mix would hurt the other side more, commission officials believe.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BTIGK5DUXFHKTGWLFSG6XGLFUQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743786311259},"content":"The Government is strongly opposed to this, given the large concentration of US tech multinationals with European bases in Dublin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NT2YRL43TVHVRDA352756OAKC4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743786311260},"content":"Just how far the commission may go in ratcheting up the pressure is a closely guarded secret inside the EU body’s Berlaymont headquarters.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W7ZI3ARM4FECBAUX5ORI2VAWXI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Europe braces for flood of Chinese goods after US tariffs","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"QMGKLJFLI5F6RMIAEACLZSISPI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743786311261},"content":"“We will not be able to speak about new measures, we will not speculate on new measures,” one senior commission official said. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"DMG4RS4FQJFPBHT42PBVTIJDXA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We have not yet discussed which instruments could be used at future stages,” another senior EU diplomat said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YT2G6WTDRZA75JDLV5MT6PCO74","additional_properties":{"_id":1743786311262},"content":"A robust response from the EU risks the White House firing back with even higher tariffs, a tit-for-tat cycle the Government wants to avoid.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZFACU2WRKVFIJFPTAFSBZPRAKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743786311263},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/pharma/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/pharma/\">Pharmaceuticals</a> were exempt from Mr Trump’s tariffs last week. However, he said he plans to follow up with specific import taxes on the sector, similar to the measures put on steel and automobiles.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J7DDCNXIXRESLEZXZ7DC5QVQMY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743786311264},"content":"The large number of US pharma multinationals with manufacturing sites in Ireland means the industry accounts for a huge amount of Irish exports to the US. The Government has been making a big lobbying push inside the EU, to prevent the sector getting hit in the crossfire of the union’s retaliatory tariffs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5QP7RHAUSVHZTF74RHV7ZP3XPE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743786311265},"content":"Overall, US tariffs will be painful but not “existential” for the EU, said Tobias Gehrke, a policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations think tank.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BVYRJP6YFRBBHIE635VGSPMGHA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Trump tariffs: Taoiseach plays down Covid-like job supports","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"FWIHPVITMZA6PN7O3AYEAVKAEU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743786311266},"content":"“The EU needs a cool head and a firm hand: explore talks, but already prepare to strike back hard. You don’t negotiate without holding a stick in your hand. Digital and services countermeasures should be readied, while exploring options to rebalance some elements of the trade relationship,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TSBDWQYCFJHNHH4TQY35GPGQLM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743786311267},"content":"Europe was still guessing whether Mr Trump wanted to cut a deal or not, Mr Gehrke said. “Ironically, it’s Washington – not Brussels – that’s struggling to speak with one voice. Trump says tariffs are leverage. His team says they’re non-negotiable. Which is it?” he asked.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6PXP3TLZXJHTHADGURMCUIPZEY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743786311268},"content":"The man the EU has tasked with answering that question is <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/maros-sefcovic/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/maros-sefcovic/\">Maroš Šefčovič</a>. 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He has a soft spot for Ireland, as he led the tail end of the EU’s negotiations with the UK during Brexit.","type":"text"},{"_id":"36XR3GUXTFGCHAWEZSFZKBO2EA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743786311270},"content":"“Maroš is not somebody who looks for conflict, but he’s not a pushover,” said one person who knows the commissioner well.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MKMIKL37GNB7BDGCP2IDWR6F4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743786311271},"content":"Trusted as a safe pair of hands by commission president Ursula von der Leyen, Šefčovič also has the backing of national capitals to try to get the US around the negotiating table.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2UJOOLIRAFBSBN3GAORUPHMEQ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743786311272},"content":"Cecilia Malmstrom, the EU’s trade commissioner during Mr Trump’s first term, said she did not envy the task in front of Mr Šefčovič.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OWAXTLQZI5DUBNDYABWHH72AVA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743786311273},"content":"It would be incredibly difficult to land an agreement where both sides suspended tariffs, she said. 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Let’s speed up to the part where you kill yourself in a bunker.” It was the most central and public part of all of Tallinn, and contained an additional reference to <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/adolf-hitler/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/adolf-hitler/\">Hitler</a>, whose Nazi Germany occupied Estonia in between its <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/russia/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/russia/\">Russian</a> occupations, which ended with independence in 1991.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QEXHNUJTSJEB7IIM3HJGX2YQHA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Cafe Maiasmokk, which specialises in marzipan, is a sombre cafe that has been in operation since 1864. It’s a long-established local place that also attracts tourists to drink coffee under its gilded ceiling, sit on its curved bentwood chairs and take in the atmosphere of a former era. 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F**k you Germany, you will all go to hell!”; “There is only one solution: intifada revolution”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HETMYJP3IBD4HGMEPIZHCTKAB4","additional_properties":{},"content":"After several rounds of chants, police moved in and picked nine people out of the crowd and detained them on various charges, including suspicion of incitement.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LJ5R25MV3ZAYDIMMPN222IZCUI","additional_properties":{},"content":"It’s exactly 18 months since the October 7th, 2023, Hamas-led attacks on Israel left about 1,200 people dead and more than 250 people taken hostage, according to Israel. In response, the military campaign in Gaza has claimed about 50,000 lives, mostly civilian women and children, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. 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Pro-Palestinian marchers tell a different tale: <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2024/08/25/pro-palestinian-marchers-tell-of-arbitrary-violence-by-berlin-police/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2024/08/25/pro-palestinian-marchers-tell-of-arbitrary-violence-by-berlin-police/\">regular and often unprompted violence from police officers they say act with impunity and political protection</a>. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZSNFRY3MSVEWTMANYLEJTYAN2M","additional_properties":{},"content":"Caught up in the middle of this 18-month stand-off are two Irish citizens – Bert Murray (31) and Shane O’Brien (29). They made headlines around Europe last week <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/04/01/two-irish-citizens-ordered-to-leave-germany-over-pro-palestinian-protests-despite-no-convictions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/04/01/two-irish-citizens-ordered-to-leave-germany-over-pro-palestinian-protests-despite-no-convictions/\">after being served with orders to leave Germany </a>by April 21st, along with a Polish and a US citizen, arising from their participation in pro-Palestinian marches.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JOR2U4COVVGI3MRALTCOOCBBLI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Murray, a Berlin-based artist who uses the pronouns they/them, indicated no plans to leave and an intention to seek an injunction against the order. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"ADEKIAIAPVANJMYHTGTFSK4UNI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I refuse to believe that a judge will allow this fascist political repression to go any further,” Murray told the In the News podcast. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"JUZJO4YAAJCKLESC2AJBVCHOM4","embed":{"config":{},"id":"acast_podcast-43790","url":"/"},"subtype":"acast_podcast","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"GF36C7Q7ZVE7XOPY355YA4SX2M","additional_properties":{},"content":"The case has prompted protest in Dublin from Opposition TDs, with Taoiseach Micheál Martin saying the cases raised “a fundamental concern in terms of their freedom of movement”, a fundamental right enjoyed by all EU citizens.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V73ND4SKDVEHJBRCJDABAF3QQY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Such expulsions must clear a high legal hurdle, proving that a person’s presence poses a serious threat to the country’s security. This most often happens to those convicted of the most serious crimes, such as large-scale drug dealing. In Germany, the numbers of removals have risen sharply in the last years.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KTMHUTSCUBAN7F5C2NZDBP4TPM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Official figures, combining cases of EU citizens deprived of their freedom of movement in Germany and deportation of third-country national deportations, showed that 255 people were ordered out of Germany on public security/order grounds in 2020. 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Similarly, the orders against O’Brien and Murray to leave, though of German-wide significance, are an initiative of the city-state of Berlin: issued by Berlin’s migration office on orders by the state interior ministry.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5JHUJCQZNJAYJNSEKG7KBWNBXY","additional_properties":{},"content":"The latter said the decision to terminate their residence was based on legal provisions on a case-by-case assessment of “the danger posed by the individual, their social, professional, and cultural integration, as well as the purpose and duration of the stay”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HSYKFCZCQRBK5OWEWYCKLKVR2U","additional_properties":{},"content":"A key element of the orders against Murray and O’Brien, resident in Berlin for several years, is a pro-Palestinian protest on October 17th last year at Berlin’s Free University (FU). Amid a heated, if largely peaceful protest, police say a smaller group of about 40 sprayed graffiti on and near the building housing the university president and administration. Press images from that day show, in red letters: “Still Complicit” and “Fre [sic] Gaza”. Police say this group caused “considerable damage” by entering the building and causing damage requiring six-figure repairs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SIJYVN5MKVCGHEMAXE47U6VTWI","additional_properties":{},"content":"An FU spokesman said that none of those facing deportation were registered as university students and that employees in the building on October 17th “did not perceive the incident as an attempted occupation, rather a violent attack”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7LZL2L5PPNGYBNAYPY76U4UU5I","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Some of the affected employees are still reeling from the events and employees were offered psychological support immediately after the attack,” said the spokesman.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L7V6DZH2TBDI7INOXXKQRXKYGU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Taoiseach to raise case of two Irish nationals facing deportation with German authorities","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"SEDONKN7WZHQRA3TYZ7YACX6UA","additional_properties":{},"content":"One staff member said: “It was a deeply traumatic experience, one that still hasn’t left me.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"J35KKHVRAJA3NKUZNP24LKU7B4","additional_properties":{},"content":"The university’s student union has a different take. In a report, it noted a “wide range of reactions” among staff in the building targeted by protesters, with two people “visibly shaken”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"K4C63TN53FC6RDMBFMWW2MCP3Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The staff members we talked to did not report any instances of physical violence being used against them,” the report adds, noting no efforts by police at de-escalation or dialogue: “One of [the protesters] was brutally thrown to the ground by at least three policemen and later three others were caught, one of which appeared to be a bystander.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"PAZM6RSFMBDWXORH4DJFZXHJUE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Lawyers for Murray and O’Brien decline to discuss the events of October 17th as they have yet to receive the case files or details of charges.","type":"text"},{"_id":"T4PNEOFDXNFHVOF3URI43Y2MOM","additional_properties":{},"content":"For fellow protester Shane O’Brien, the order against him lists at least 14 incidents bringing him into conflict with the police, some dropped and others ongoing. A criminal police assessment said it was “noteworthy that, of the offences listed here, none took place beyond pro-Palestinian scene events”, O’Brien having not come to police attention outside of his protest activities.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UXET2JYBKVEZPI4FV4QY6SU33M","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Murray-O’Brien cases have attracted considerable media attention in Germany, in particular, whether the two represent a real risk to public order or are facing a political intervention in the justice system.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MQ7EZK26TRAKDFXDUW5LUYVZHE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The lead official in their cases is a Berlin state interior ministry official called Christian Oestmann. He is a member of Berlin’s co-governing Social Democratic Party (SPD), which controls the state interior ministry, and a former judge at Berlin’s state administrative court. A decade ago, in this latter function, he struck down a deportation order against a Turkish woman, raised and resident in Berlin, who had assault and manslaughter convictions but had been diagnosed with a serious psychological disorder.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q7YRJBJAJNFHFJSY64XNTBRJAQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"In the ruling, he wrote: “The direct deportation of a foreign national ... must comply with the principle of proportionality and the requirement to guarantee effective legal protection.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"QODDI6H76FHDZLIKJJJRYWYQVI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Christian Oestmann is on holiday until April 22nd and unavailable for comment, but Berlin-based migration lawyer Martin Manzel, a fellow member of the SPD, describes Oestmann as “not some ruthless hardliner”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GITQ3LCARFCTRGKL4CEOFELMQM","additional_properties":{},"content":"“He has a good legal mind and knows what he is doing when it comes to deportations,” he said. “He is not someone who yields to political pressure from above, so I can’t imagine that his actions here are motivated by anything other than legal concerns.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4KF4L6GQB5AKRFFJQXBXZ5X4AY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Others take a different view, with one well-placed political observer in Berlin describing Oestmann as a “politically-oriented party person”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4ZDIP6ZG3ZBYJDR6KMGIQZ5LJY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“None of this originated with him; this is him enacting someone else’s political will,” said the source, suggesting Berlin mayor Kai Wegner and interior senator Iris Spranger are “coming under pressure for appearing to have done nothing” to date on the FU incident.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OWKNHTXDTFGCDF5UTKRVO3WSUU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Berlin’s state interior ministry declined to say why the two Irish citizens were selected for proceedings and on whose initiative, saying the ministry “does not comment on speculation or rumours”.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Derek Scally"}},"name":"Derek Scally"}]},"description":{"basic":"Bert Murray (31) and Shane O’Brien (29) are fighting efforts to remove them. 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When he entered office for his second term, Mr Trump made the Israeli prime minister the first foreign leader to be invited to the White House.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZQ643IDCOZFLDCORY6D2F5UBW4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743950974802},"content":"A spokesperson for Mr Netanyahu did not respond to a request for comment on the visit. The Israeli prime minister has been in Hungary on a state visit, where he met the country’s leader, Viktor Orban.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NAVFDPTHCNHCNMYUAEEF6WZQQM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743950974803},"content":"During Mr Netanyahu’s last trip, Mr Trump made clear he was recommitted to brokering a new diplomatic deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia, a primary goal for both leaders. 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Mr Netanyahu has since called for “voluntary emigration” by Gaza residents, which critics have denounced as effectively forced displacement.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BRTYR6CMKNFRNCNEURO7IGE3AM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743950974805},"content":"Mr Trump also cancelled US sanctions on violent West Bank settlers and released weapons to Israel held up by the former US president Joe Biden.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LFIG6QVYDNEZZPE242AFR65TSA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743950974806},"content":"Israeli forces have been steadily bombarding Gaza and advancing deeper into the enclave since the war resumed in late March. Israel has also barred aid from entering Gaza for about a month, in an apparent attempt to pressure Hamas, leading to fears of a worsening humanitarian crisis for residents.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FI42CNNOTBCPPKGPL6OXBXHGNA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743950974807},"content":"The Trump administration has blamed Hamas for the ceasefire’s collapse. 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“mistaken”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FESJ53XA4BGW7IZ6HUGL7YG7AQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Israel says its account of 15 rescue workers killed in Gaza was partly ‘mistaken’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"XD6FKCVXORCIZGWD4TP55WRSYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743958932138},"content":"The assessment, which was shared in a briefing with reporters by an Israeli military official, came the day after a video obtained by the New York Times appeared to contradict the military’s earlier version of events.The official spoke on the condition of anonymity under army rules.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P3I2JIQOLRD45BLQ6ZPKEGK3WE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743958932139},"content":"The Israeli military official said the internal investigation of the attack, which has drawn international scrutiny and condemnation, is continuing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WPA7UCULHJEOLA26S7FEILSDHY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743950974810},"content":"This article originally appeared in <a 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president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/barack-obama/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/barack-obama/\">Barack Obama</a>, also created by Boardman, is “wonderful”, but his is “truly the worst”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5BFTXN7G6FBFPBWDLM46B5LL6I","additional_properties":{},"content":"He also said that Boardman, who has a painting of Republican president George W Bush, “must have lost her talent as she got older”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HEU7HKNHSVGNTHV4BVXDMN4T4A","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Trump wrote: “Nobody likes a bad picture or painting of themselves, but the one in Colorado, in the State Capitol, put up by the Governor, along with all other presidents, was purposefully distorted to a level that even I, perhaps, have never seen before.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"H2QBGNSFP5GYBAXFIDS3ZI7GSU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Colorado Republicans raised more than 10,000 dollars (€9,100) through a GoFundMe account to 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Millions watched on Friday as the chief justice of the South’s constitutional court, Moon Hyung-bae, formally expelled president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/yoon-suk-yeol/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/yoon-suk-yeol/\">Yoon Suk Yeol</a> from office. Moon’s statement, upholding Yoon’s impeachment and delivered on live television, felt for many like the longest 22 minutes in living memory.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7USMECSCCJFRLP34SIY3WR2AME","additional_properties":{"_id":1743935047787},"content":"The parties are an expression of relief – and a celebration of democracy – after 15 weeks of deliberation and months of chaos since Yoon declared martial law on December 3rd. The president banned protests, muzzled the media and ordered the arrest of opponents, backed by the threat of lethal force. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"KSCP6TNVPBFFHERWQZXPI3BGUU","additional_properties":{},"content":"When the decree backfired, he barricaded himself into the presidential residence in Seoul, while supporters and rivals scuffled outside.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WPK5W4BZUZBX7OQBNMMDZB5QEA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743935047788},"content":"Friday’s damning verdict, that Yoon had “abandoned his constitutional duty” and “gravely betrayed the trust” of South Koreans, should end his political career, and the looming menace of a return to the violent past. Yoon’s predecessor Chun Doo-hwan, took power after declaring martial law in 1979, then banned his opponents and ordered the army to suppress rebellion, killing hundreds of people.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H2VBQGTEF4YBXULPRL53CZ5YH4","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"FA3F3JE4NRGUTKLQGKWTZW326Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"I4KOX3KJ5NDTLCIZOKGD52V4ZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743935047789},"content":"Yet, despite the relief, “South Koreans are deeply divided over the course their country should take,” warns Alexis Dudden, a professor of history at the University of Connecticut. While Yoon’s attempt to reverse hard-won democratic gains failed, he was a very effective polariser. Like so many places, says Dudden, much of this division derives from economic uncertainty – likely compounded by US president Donald Trump’s imposition of 25 per cent tariffs on South Korea.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VEHVXUNCYVBKPMXRBPQUQTVX3M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743935047790},"content":"Even before Trump’s announcement, the south’s government was struggling to address what the Korea Times recently called an “alarming” rise in income and wealth disparities. The south’s economy is heavily dependent on exports, especially to the US and China (most US exports to South Korea arrive duty free).","type":"text"},{"_id":"QXYKEX46LJEGZETTA3XY3EFYVU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743935047791},"content":"A populist conservative, Yoon did little to close the growing wealth gap but stoked divisions with Trump-style culture wars, denouncing opponents as ‘anti-state’ agitators and campaigning against feminism. One of his pledges was to scrap the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family because he said it was “structural discrimination”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EI4Y6WCPC5GOHDAY3WMFQN4ZZE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743935047792},"content":"In another nod to US politics, Yoon embraced YouTube conspiracy theories about the ‘deep state’, amplifying baseless claims that elections had been rigged. In January his supporters violently attacked a courthouse in Seoul after it issued his formal arrest warrant. Chief justice Moon was targeted, too, in daily protests. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"4JRX3JZ74BAL5CSA3AC6MX4M6I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743935047793},"content":"These political and social schisms found expression in mass street rallies for and against Yoon throughout winter. Yoon’s supporters waved South Korean and US flags, and adopted the “Stop the Steal” slogan popularised by Trump supporters after their failed insurrection of January 2021. Yoon’s removal will reinforce his image among these supporters as a political martyr.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MKHX7LMGECLNED4TRF3477ZNLQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"4AR2H2FKKBDHNMZ4H2UUKVTJXA","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"DRDBXSX4XRC2XHW2PRPO5WYHWY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743935047794},"content":"Complicating an already muddy picture is the rise in popularity for Yoon’s People Power Party (PPP), despite his own personal disgrace. Some interpret that as a backlash against what is seen as legal overreach by the opposition. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"TJQUSKZIEVBBHJFRWRM2XZYP2I","additional_properties":{},"content":"“People knew Trump 2.0 could be more difficult than his first term, but I think that Trump’s rhetoric and what’s been happening so far have basically been pointing towards most nightmares coming true,” says Piotr Buras, head of the Warsaw office of the European Council on Foreign Relations. “Yes, there are politicians here who are playing things down... but I think the shock is still very, very deep,” he adds.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G6UDAS7TWJD4FN5WNW5ZQ4JT3Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"The geopolitical disruption is hardly confined to Poland. The US president is also casting a long shadow on countries up and down the eastern flank of Nato, as he and Putin negotiate an end to the war in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/ukraine-crisis/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/ukraine-crisis/\">Ukraine</a> that many fear will be reached on the US’s and Russia’s own terms. This may suit the leaders of countries such as Hungary and Slovakia, but it is causing ruptures to domestic politics in the likes of Poland, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/romania/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/romania/\">Romania</a> and the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/czech-republic/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/czech-republic/\">Czech Republic</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"K6YQSYXDOSHR45VOFXVMGAVRJA","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"XPDJPHEJWRCMNN5RARNSYKLOJU","additional_properties":{},"content":"George Simion, who will contest a rerun of the Romanian presidential election in May, in place of the barred Calin Georgescu, says his party is “friends with the important figures of the Maga movement, and we learn from each other’s experience”. Last year, he plastered the streets of Bucharest with pro-Trump messages and even wrapped an entire building in a giant Trump poster. 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Its leader, former premier Andrej Babis, says he is confident Trump will restore peace in Ukraine before parliamentary elections due by October return him to office in Prague.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SMERJSP2P5HKDPKW4YTOIOSOOU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Karel Havlicek, ANO deputy leader, says Trump wants to talk to like-minded European politicians rather than EU officials in Brussels. “I’m not sure the European Commission will be now the qualified partner for Trump,” Havlicek says. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"AW4L5YQX4ZABFG354TI5B5GPQQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"For <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/hungary/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/hungary/\">Hungary</a>‘s <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/viktor-orban/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/viktor-orban/\">Viktor Orban</a>, who isn’t due to face elections until 2026, there is less need to try to face two ways. A self-confessed admirer of Trump and Putin, Orban has visited both Mar-a-Lago and Moscow in the past year, endorsed the peace talks and warned that Budapest will seek to block Ukraine’s bid to join the EU.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5L32LACH2JG2XKMKXBY7UJMDSY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/slovakia/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/slovakia/\">Slovakia</a>’s <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/robert-fico/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/robert-fico/\">Robert Fico</a>, who like Trump survived an attempt on his life last year, has also visited Putin, and described Ukraine’s president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/volodymyr-zelenskiy/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/volodymyr-zelenskiy/\">Volodymyr Zelenskiy</a> as “an enemy”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2ASGYMWOUVFXNP7IZPPUOSTZPA","additional_properties":{},"content":"When Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt acceded to Joseph Stalin’s demand for a Soviet “sphere of influence” in Europe at Yalta in 1945, eastern Europe’s postwar fate was sealed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B5GCBRSQYNENJKXUVWI6WATL2A","additional_properties":{},"content":"From the Baltic states and Poland in the north to Romania and Bulgaria in the south, the Trump-Putin rapprochement has rekindled memories of that dubious bargain. Romanian presidential adviser Cristian Diaconescu has warned of a return to the “gates of hell” if it is repeated. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"PLJ4JHG5ZHPN2XLSRA7VH5HR4Y","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"YWKASGYAQNBXVDCYIQS3JA2H5Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I lived through that period of what Yalta means. Eleven-hour gasoline lines, poverty, cold in the houses, women dying in hospitals... two-hour TV adulations of the supreme leader,” Diaconescu told a Bucharest TV host in February. “Nobody should think we’re having a theoretical, esoteric discussion about global strategies that nobody understands anything about.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"T6RYFMCBRREQRFL2VUL6E2LXVQ","additional_properties":{},"content":" In Poland, cosying up to Moscow is even less tolerable. The PiS’s anti-Russia stance is a very personal one for its leader and former prime minister, Jaroslaw Kaczynski. In 2010, his twin brother Lech, at the time the country’s president, was killed in a plane crash in Russia. He blames Putin, and also continues to accuse his domestic political rival, prime minister Donald Tusk, of helping to cover up what lay behind the crash. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"BSTDIHNAVFG2PJFWSWHLIBYU4M","additional_properties":{},"content":"When the PiS presidential candidate Karol Nawrocki argued in January against Ukraine joining Nato or the EU, Tusk reminded Kaczynski that Lech was among the first European leaders to support Ukraine’s accession bids. “Aren’t you ashamed?” Tusk asked Kaczynski on X.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M2QKND2CM5HMJKQJI7IZPNBCDQ","subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"KJAVWYNGBRAS5EVWEADPS6UCHY","additional_properties":{},"content":"By contrast, support for the US across the region is anchored in strong economic and military ties that date back to George HW Bush, the US president when communism in eastern Europe collapsed in 1989. Under his successors, Washington swiftly became the main driver for the former eastern bloc countries to join Nato starting in 1999 — before they became EU members and before Putin became president of Russia.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DPRQ5CELKJETZOGRKGRSKFHAVU","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Trump administration has been quick to assert influence over the region. After Romania’s constitutional court annulled the results of the first round of its presidential election last December, US vice-president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/jd-vance/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/jd-vance/\">JD Vance</a> denounced the move from the podium of the Munich Security Conference, saying the decision was “based on the flimsy suspicions of an intelligence agency and enormous pressure from its continental neighbours”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V7TUQAN5CRHSFOMHZUPTKP6PMY","additional_properties":{},"content":"In countries such as Hungary and Poland, the US presence grew during Trump’s first term, helped in part by his personal relationships with leaders such as Orban and Andrzej Duda, the Polish president whose second and final term is now drawing to a close.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SRWWLMS4PGO7SIFOTSV7WRSYOA","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"2SLGAYEAMNAALCKXSO556G356I","additional_properties":{},"content":"But the latest version of Trump has also caught some of his most ardent supporters in the region flat-footed. Duda’s meeting with Trump in February sparked social media jokes in Poland after it was downgraded to a 10-minute conversation and overshadowed by the preceding TV footage of Duda pacing around a room, because Trump arrived more than one hour late. Simion was limited to taking selfies with Trump in the background when he visited the CPAC gathering in February.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S5N7PLUCY5GLXPWNUNWBDMJFQY","additional_properties":{},"content":"For now, there is no sign of the region unwinding from the US. Tusk, whose Civic Platform party is back in government, has inherited an agreement with Westinghouse to build Poland’s first nuclear power plant, despite lobbying by France’s EDF to replace the US company.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ULECLF5YABCGHNNRRPL2QCDELQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Hungary drifts further from EU consensus on Ukraine war","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"I2C4EW6DCJBDPORD2CSZ7LRLRY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Poland has also allocated 4.7 per cent of this year’s budget to defence, the highest of any Nato member. But even as Tusk embraces European efforts to build conventional military as well as nuclear autonomy from the US, his government remains committed to massive acquisitions of US weaponry, including a near $2 billion (€1.8 billion) contract for Patriot air defence missiles signed on Tuesday. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"42WXKOOCUJCFZNWBNE2IZJ7ES4","additional_properties":{},"content":"In Trump’s first term, Romania pledged to expand its nuclear power plant with US technology, including a fleet of small modular reactors. In addition to close military co-operation with Washington, Romania has now signed more than $15 billion worth of energy projects with US companies, ranging from the nuclear projects to Neptune Deep, a natural gas project in the Black Sea. Talks are ongoing about hydropower in Romania’s Carpathian Mountains.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4T7KPBG3AFDGJK3MVQ4LVTI3EQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"But some business executives are now warning about a slowdown in investments, given the heightened geopolitical uncertainty. Last year “everyone said that Romania was the place to be”, recalls Razvan Nicolescu, a former Romanian energy minister and business consultant in Bucharest. But since Trump took office, “everything changed”, he adds. “Investors are now putting [projects] on hold.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KCSQTPWIPJCDHEUIHUG2LGOYC4","additional_properties":{},"content":"As in Poland, France is offering to replace the US as an investor in sectors including nuclear energy. This proposal is “better than nothing, but if the US really leaves, it’s going to be tough going”, says Sorin Ionita, head of the Expert Forum think-tank in Bucharest.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5DCMHIZ5YBHP7LIYAYOXXFVFYQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Even as Trump escalates his tariff war against the EU and other trade partners, few in central and eastern Europe are willing to contemplate life without US backing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QDCJHA4FMJABVBUWBADDR6LGZ4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Vance’s tirade in Munich shocked not only those in the room but also many in Romania, who never expected a top US official would single out their country as a prime example of Europe’s democratic flaws. “Romania always regarded the US as a strategic partnership,” says Sandu Valentin Mateiu, a retired general and security expert in Bucharest. “We don’t have an alternative.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"SDFNOMTD5BCAVIM35VTHS737CY","additional_properties":{},"content":"At the same time, some central European politicians have been the main troublemakers within the EU, despite the economic benefits that membership of the bloc has brought to the region. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"AAR5T2GRBC57WRIELFRU2AHEMM","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"OT7TQUJ7JVFZRG7VONYREIOUDY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Orban and Fico were not invited to talks last month hosted by Paris and London about how to secure Ukraine post-conflict and rearm Europe to reduce its military reliance on the US. The two were the only EU leaders to visit Putin last year, generating protests and prompting disquiet among EU officials in Brussels. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"GMNSQDLASBH4NEZCCNECKBNRSI","additional_properties":{},"content":"During its eight years in office, the PiS government feuded with the European Commission, particularly after the latter froze billions of euro of Poland’s EU money in protest at PiS weakening the independence of the Polish judiciary. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"76N3FS2QDVCJPDGWXC5LEIOUG4","additional_properties":{},"content":"The stand-off gave PiS leader Kaczynski additional reasons to insist that Washington – rather than Brussels or Berlin – was the real guarantor of Poland’s security. Similar arguments have been advanced by Orban, Fico and Babis, who last year co-founded Patriots for Europe, the third-largest group in the European Parliament, together with Orban and Austrian far-right leader Herbert Kickl.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4LGGSQGQTZEL3JNPIUBABXZ26U","additional_properties":{},"content":"Election candidates in central and eastern Europe are well aware that their prospects could be abruptly altered by the timing and terms of a truce in Ukraine, or any other sweeping gesture by Trump that could embolden Putin. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"HH7D5HUE6BFOFO3TZNB2C3FT4I","additional_properties":{},"content":"But given the US president’s unpredictability, they also worry about provoking a Trump rebuff that could frighten their voters. “There are very few politicians in Poland who dare to say something bad about Donald Trump,” says Wojciech Szacki, chief political analyst at Polityka Insight, a Warsaw think-tank.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EOJ3RAWASRH7VPP7K2DLORKATY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Candidates “feel limited in what they can say because one sentence, one quotation might lose them voters who are very sensitive about wanting to feel safe”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MCX3EEVHTNER5HGHIFTJKC2HGM","additional_properties":{},"content":"As some of their politicians lean into the Trump worldview, voters across central Europe are also growing weary of the political and economic costs of supporting Ukraine.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z2JSKKJ5CFH7NOW5QO2MYBA35Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"In early 2022 Poland was the EU’s main gateway for millions of Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s all-out invasion, which generated an unprecedented show of solidarity by Polish society. At the time, the far-right Confederation party jointly led by Slawomir Mentzen was the lone voice calling for limitations on the help granted to refugees. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"46PDBVWSNNDJLMXQO4GZ2MIGIA","subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"P4OYS22XWNCNTLFDH2F3IH374Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mentzen is now Confederation’s candidate for the Polish presidency, an election in which most of the candidates are seeking to turn growing fatigue over Ukrainian refugees into votes. PiS is adopting a more hardline message towards Ukraine, in part to counter Mentzen’s momentum in opinion polls. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"LF2SEO3QZBFCBDG76RFWWQFUYE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Civic Platform candidate and frontrunner Rafal Trzaskowski also said in January that Ukrainian refugees should no longer be eligible for Poland’s child subsidy scheme unless they work and pay taxes in Poland. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"HUOTBQYBUSDA4ZRFP6WENOEPTE","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"PQK2CZP6QRBHTIKQJCCVDNUV4I","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ukrainians living in Poland resent disparaging comments in hospitals or public transport, such as being told to learn better Polish. “We were warmly welcomed as victims, people who literally fled death,” says Anna Nowak, who escaped Kyiv for Warsaw in March 2022. “But those of us who decided to stay here are seen now mostly as economic competitors or even intruders by many Poles.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"NN246PKBMZAL5MZD7QZTQN57G4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Talk of Ukraine joining the EU has alarmed many Polish voters, who fear the impact its large neighbour might have on some sectors of the country’s economy, particularly agriculture. “All politicians read the same polls, the same analysis of how attitudes towards Ukrainian people are getting worse, so they react to that,” says Polityka Insight’s Szacki.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EKPHZQA4TVGTDCOBET2M6NIJPM","additional_properties":{},"content":"The political rhetoric is also heating up. On the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Mentzen visited the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, where he launched a fierce attack on Ukrainian nationalism and its responsibility for the killings of about 100,000 Poles during the 1940s in Volhynia, a region now part of Ukraine.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5RAMPWJKXBD6HBLPFOPVX6WAYI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Michael McGrath: Prospect of Russian tanks invading an EU state no longer ‘unthinkable’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"FIY7EDVU75E7BHOKVM4S4NPWZA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Lviv’s mayor, Andriy Sadovyi, denounced him as a “pro-Russian politician with a Polish passport”, to which Mentzen retorted that, if elected, he would ban Sadovyi from entering Poland. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"HJXC5DKWVZAGFP3XCKFHWMFEJA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Romania’s Simion has been banned from Ukraine since 2000 for “systematic anti-Ukrainian activities”, according to Ukraine’s security services, which regard his advocacy of territorial reunification with ethnic Romanians residing in Ukraine and neighbouring Moldova as a violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"MEZFUS4DAFDPLMYEO433U55AHE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Simion is also banned from Moldova. Speaking to the Financial Times, he toned down his territorial ambitions, saying that any border change could only happen if approved by referendums held in the relevant countries.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F57WHGJXZFDSNIXRUBQMCD7LEI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Hungary’s Orban recently talked of “a territory called Ukraine” whose only aspiration should be to become “a buffer zone” between Nato and Russia, while Fico used a tennis analogy in February to describe talks between Washington and Moscow over an end to the war. On Facebook, he claimed that the “presidential pair” of Putin and Trump would win a doubles match with Ukraine and the EU “6-0, 6-0, 6-0”. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZLLWXLIIBRBP7CESEVJK54EN4M","additional_properties":{},"content":"For some of the region’s politicians, anti-Ukrainian rhetoric has become a way to reconcile their long-standing fears about Russia with their enduring faith in America as a protector.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VCIZCBVPXBFE3KJJ5QLDKVAGDE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The [Trump-Putin] situation is forcing parties to become inconsistent, and that’s especially glaring when it comes to PiS, which says it’s anti-Russian but also strongly for Trump and counting on Republican support in the upcoming election,” says Adam Leszczynski, director of the Gabriel Narutowicz Institute of Political Thought, a Polish government think-tank.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EDH6VNNA3NGUVD4IL75YD2DMUU","additional_properties":{},"content":"He adds that this is why politicians “talk about Ukraine being a country with big problems and corruption and about Ukrainians behaving irresponsibly in Poland”. It is easier than drawing attention to their own inconsistencies “which really only matter if their electorate cares about them”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QER3YONO35CHHAPVT5KOHPRD44","additional_properties":{},"content":"But some observers feel this smokescreen cannot last indefinitely. “We felt the tragedy of Yalta for 50 years, so any discussion of Yalta 2.0 concerns our big fear,” says Dan Tapalaga, editor of G4media, a prominent Romanian news site. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"7BQWGUI5MNAQBHJHACBL7P7UVE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“With the US and Russia drawing closer, where will we be when all is said and done? 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Twitter, the pair said: “We’re astounded at the unprecedented step taken by the Israeli authorities to refuse British MPs entry on our trip to visit the occupied West Bank.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3SHNXNNWFVDJPHWQDIJUCEVAGI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“It is vital that parliamentarians are able to witness first-hand the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TJBXSNHN7JGP5AYTHD4BMMH3DY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Sky News, citing a statement from the Israeli immigration ministry, reported the parliamentarians were rejected because they were suspected of plans to “document the activities of security forces and spread anti-Israel hatred”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W4IR6TTI3FBHNLXJ2LMYEDIEY4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Both had flown to Israel from Luton on Saturday, Sky News said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L74SDKMFUNAZFEB4PL3U7TIHJY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I have made clear to my counterparts in the Israeli 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"IYV5GLAZERBA3FLNY6JCY7CU2A","additional_properties":{},"content":"After the March 25th strikes on Koya, male elders gathered at the local mosque to pay their respects to those killed, as locals struggled to comprehend what was happening to their homeland. “We are here gathering because we want to give our condolences and stand with the people,” said village elder Mahmoud Musalam. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"WPBACIMO6ZGERDGQV5C6HGUQGU","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"BVWYWNV3XNAQDEJ6EMD3WX6ABM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Travelling through southern Syria last week, The Irish Times heard stories of detentions of Syrian civilians, seizures and confiscations of land and property, regular Israeli patrols, and also softer approaches, such as the distribution by the Israelis of food baskets – all inside Syrian territory. 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Some locals told The Irish Times Syrian armed men had come to the area where the attacks happened, but suggested they were attempting to protect Syrian civilians from Israeli soldiers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"53WLNPW77NCNFPLG3QEEDDE5KI","additional_properties":{},"content":"* * *","type":"text"},{"_id":"RSSQ7V5NR5HNRE7OS3DECR4NZE","additional_properties":{},"content":"In December, the first days after the fall of the Assad regime, Israel launched close to 500 air strikes across Syria, saying it wanted to prevent weapons stockpiles and military installations from being used by “terrorist elements”. Its forces also launched a land invasion, seizing a demilitarised, UN-monitored buffer zone in the Golan Heights, then moving beyond it. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"P25H2CTZ4ZF5ZDUZTCY4X2ANOU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Charles Lister, a senior fellow and head of the Syria Initiative at the Middle East Institute, said the killings at Koya followed 70 previous Israeli incursions into Syria over the last few months. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"CVRJH54INVCMDDAK6ZA7BGPRDE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Aware of how fractured Syria is, the interim government in Damascus is attempting to unify the country and its armed forces. But Israel says it will “not allow” new government forces to move south of Damascus, with Israeli prime minister <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/binyamin-netanyahu/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/binyamin-netanyahu/\">Binyamin Netanyahu</a> saying in February that he “demand[s] full demilitarisation of southern Syria”. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"JHCMW3OEPNHF7CJLXN7UA55RKI","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"HHWJYMR3LNGBDLQUPG3RVM2CMA","additional_properties":{},"content":"This comes despite new president Ahmed al-Sharaa – whose family come from the occupied Golan Heights – saying he will not let Syria be used as a launch pad for attacks on Israel and that he is committed to the 1974 agreement between the countries. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"KYQCD7SXQZBJZNQJWHMTWV5G6M","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The IDF is prepared to stay in Syria for an unlimited amount of time,” said Israeli defence minister Israel Katz during a visit on March 12th to Mount Hermon, Syria’s highest peak, located close to the border with Lebanon, and 40km from the capital, Damascus.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JSTELKQXLZETVJWJANC56YCPG4","additional_properties":{},"content":"On Wednesday, Israel launched another wave of air strikes <a href=\"https://x.com/AvichayAdraee/status/1907518944715722943\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://x.com/AvichayAdraee/status/1907518944715722943\">targeting “military capabilities”</a> and infrastructure sites in Damascus, Hama and Homs, in what the new Syrian government called a violation of international law and Syrian sovereignty, and “a deliberate attempt to destabilise”. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"BVOUT5RQ3JETDJ5BLDZJZ6QCBI","additional_properties":{},"content":"While an IDF spokesman also <a href=\"https://x.com/AvichayAdraee/status/1907652744699056383\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://x.com/AvichayAdraee/status/1907652744699056383\">said</a> Israeli forces “eliminate[d]” several “terrorists” whom he said had opened fire on Israeli forces<b> </b>in Syria’s south,<b> </b>Daraa governorate officials <a href=\"https://t.me/DaraaGov1/2692\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://t.me/DaraaGov1/2692\">said</a> at least<b> </b>nine civilians were killed<b> </b>during the deepest Israeli incursion yet, sparking “widespread public mobilisation and anger”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SYJE4NEUPVCMJG6B2TLQD4S55U","additional_properties":{},"content":"* * *","type":"text"},{"_id":"YVPSXVC35JD4JK2EPBIPJIJQ7M","additional_properties":{},"content":"In a temporary home his family had moved to for<b> </b>safety, Naif Al Ali (68)<b> </b>held up a photograph of a bloody stump: what remained of a 40-year-old relative’s leg after the Koya attacks.<b> </b>Another injured victim, his daughter Malak Al Ali (27), lay nearby.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D6CVR7GG6JA4HHUHA3UWYMUW7I","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"BZVL6ETLQJFA3EDZRXK7TSLYN4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“This is their policy, they are expansionists,” he said of the Israelis. “Here the land is fertile, there is water, agriculture, sources of electricity, so they want to occupy it. The new government will not do anything, they don’t have power.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"R5RKWSIVZBDMXO2H3IFLIL63QQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ali and other Syrians who spoke to The Irish Times said they want the United Nations to step in and protect them. More than 1,100 UN peacekeepers are already deployed in the nearby Golan Heights, the UN’s <a href=\"https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/01/1159451#:~:text=Why%20UN%20peacekeepers%20patrol%20the%20Israel%2DSyria%20border,-By%20Eileen%20Travers&text=More%20than%201%2C100%20UN%20peacekeepers,the%20history%20of%20the%20region.\" rel=\"\">website</a> says: the UN Disengagement Observer Force was established in 1974. Two thirds of the Golan Heights was in effect annexed by Israel in 1981, though most of the world still considers it Syrian territory.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3ANZPRTZ2JBQTITHKFFCKNA4C4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We will never leave our land, [even if] Israel or the US or anyone comes, we will not leave,” said Ali.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RBSTSNOJWNDOBC7GSS3GNLDFVM","additional_properties":{},"content":"“[Israel] say, always, they have to protect their borders. They should protect their borders from their country, not come to our country to protect their borders,” complained Bashar, Wissam’s brother who – like some others – asked to go only by his first name due to anxiety over the consequences of speaking out.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BL6DNI6AMRCMFI7LKWCAYZAPSU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I want to convey a message,” he said. “Here we are in our land. We didn’t go to them. We are not assaulting them. They are coming to us. They are assaulting us.” Referring to the fall of the Assad regime, he added: “The Israelis sabotaged even the one moment of joy we have felt.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2F5KWMPB6RHODIN6UXSKN7PSY4","additional_properties":{},"content":"* * *","type":"text"},{"_id":"4OLQWYVJBNEL7ATLPE4O4IFXAM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Speaking to people in southern Syria, it becomes clear there is suspicion and conflicting information about which Syrians might be helping Israel, or accepting cash or other benefits. Israeli advances come at a time of desperation, when locals are worried about drought and daily grinding hardships. “They have suffered from war for 14 years, they are ready to do a deal with the devil to improve their financial situation,” said one man.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C2QFJPNYJ5BUHLNMJ4E6XZ726I","additional_properties":{},"content":"Israeli food parcels have been distributed to roughly a dozen villages, he said, containing goods including flour, milk, canned food, biscuits, rice, sugar and vitamins, worth in total about $140 (€127). While many do not want to be publicly seen accepting them, they will take the parcels under cover of darkness. The packaging has Hebrew language labels, while the packages are marked with Arabic writing translating as “the good neighbour”, the man said. An Israeli spokesperson confirmed they offered both “medical assistance” and “humanitarian food packages”. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"RGVIKHOIRNA3BOZ357MUFFMWEI","additional_properties":{},"content":"In a bunker with a woman battlefield commander in Syria: ‘To be under the control of a patriarchal husband? I prefer to be here’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"VAO3XMCS5BEF5NC5FSNJ4O6HG4","additional_properties":{},"content":"In Al-Nasiriya, on the administrative border between the governorates of Daraa and Quneitra, The Irish Times saw what reportedly used to be a Russian military base, said to have been destroyed by Israeli soldiers within the previous week. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"ICH5TV5CEBAWROQN76ZUHT4SJQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"HIPFVDFPMNBVZPLEPYSDIMBX4E","additional_properties":{},"content":"Barbed wire still surrounded cracked concrete and an upturned vehicle. An IDF spokesperson denied that troops are present in Al-Nasiriya and Daraa at all. But in Ain Dakar, Daraa, there was another checkpoint, which locals said Israeli forces had destroyed days before. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"NHW6XTLIFVBN3CIE26LIVGPEVA","additional_properties":{},"content":"* * *","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z7YI6SA5TJG4NBA37VV7WSP334","additional_properties":{},"content":"In Kodana, a quiet village in the southwestern Quneitra governorate, an unmanned checkpoint blocks a road. Locals, who did not want to be named, said Israelis had mounted cameras on it, and anyone who approached risks being tracked down. They said a shepherd had had his motorbike confiscated for passing by, with one adding they were nervous because “we are not allowed to talk to media”. Five people were recently detained from one house, they said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O5IH2HA3TNDLPOWF4OQYURR2GY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We got rid of [Bashar al-] Assad and we got much worse than Assad. The same day that Assad fell, at 5pm they were here,” said one man.","type":"text"},{"_id":"46UBBDXQEJG2TBSROIUAXJLH5U","additional_properties":{},"content":"He also accused the Israelis of seizing sheep, and barring people from their land, forcing him to sell cattle he can no longer graze. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"EISJOSL2AZAJXEU3YILD4PSV7M","additional_properties":{},"content":"He said Israeli soldiers once shot guns recklessly from another checkpoint further away, with a bullet damaging a car. They also shot machine guns into a nearby dam, he alleged.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2EERAK6BVJCHFNS2PV43V5AK2I","additional_properties":{},"content":"Civilians in Syria: ‘We try to make a new future now. You can speak, you can go out’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"T5DLZYD5OFBUVNGRQCJP7YDVSM","additional_properties":{},"content":"An Israeli military spokesperson said Israeli forces detained “suspects” from Syria, “based on intelligence indications” and “those found not to be involved in terrorist activities are released”. IDF representatives were in “direct contact with civilians” and did not prevent agricultural work in areas that were “critical” for them, but operated “in these areas in accordance with operational needs”. The spokesperson also said claims troops fired indiscriminately from checkpoints at civilians were false.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WRBRDWB65JA2BLWDWLOD6GZS2M","additional_properties":{},"content":"Two Kodana residents described dozens of Israelis coming to their village earlier that morning for a “meeting”, during which they saw them pointing in various directions. “We are puzzled by what they are doing ... You can’t ask them why they’re doing it. You can’t talk to them,” one said. “Maybe they will ask people to leave ... If they ask us to leave we have to leave, we cannot resist them.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"LUZAHUDUUNAAFKNPSETN5HLFXM","additional_properties":{},"content":"He said he stayed at home after sunset now. “Any house they want to enter, any hour, they storm the houses,“ the man continued, trying to explain the anxiety residents now lived with. “No one orders us to stay in at night, but we are afraid and they are afraid. If you go out and they have a patrol in the street they might shoot you.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"YSQM7JB5GJEWNNBYLL5AYVI35I","additional_properties":{},"content":"<i>Hani Alagbar assisted with this reporting.</i>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Sally Hayden"}},"name":"Sally Hayden"}]},"description":{"basic":"Days after the fall of the Assad regime, Israeli forces entered southern Syria, where many locals now want protection from the UN"},"display_date":"2025-04-06T07:28:52.332Z","headlines":{"basic":"‘They destroyed this moment of joy’: On the frontlines of the Israeli incursion into Syria","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"WQXVIENDFBBYXGR6KC524Y7CFA","auth":{"1":"79720579084f6052d56b7764ad6dca8944cdcc9155a7db41c08be46e4986420c"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/WQXVIENDFBBYXGR6KC524Y7CFA.jpg"}},"subtype":"feature","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Middle East"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/middle-east/2025/04/06/they-destroyed-this-moment-of-joy-on-the-frontlines-of-the-israeli-incursion-into-syria/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/middle-east","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Middle East"}}}},{"_id":"e246867a-74d6-4a3b-94e5-33565df8eedd","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/video/video/2025/04/06/hundreds-of-thousands-of-americans-protest-against-trump/","credits":{},"description":{"basic":"Hundreds of thousands of people across the US have taken part in nationwide protests against President Donald Trump and his administration."},"display_date":"2025-04-06T07:23:01Z","embed_html":"<div class=\"powa\" id=\"powa-e246867a-74d6-4a3b-94e5-33565df8eedd\" data-org=\"irishtimes\" data-env=\"prod\" data-uuid=\"e246867a-74d6-4a3b-94e5-33565df8eedd\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.562\" data-api=\"prod\"><script src=\"//irishtimes.video-player.arcpublishing.com/prod/powaBoot.js?org=irishtimes\"><\/script></div>","headlines":{"basic":"Hundreds of thousands of Americans protest against Trump"},"promo_items":{"basic":{"auth":{"1":"4b96e7bb5657fadc0792b27063a77aa4c7af46f5c463b68b19e8fcc3ea9bf71d"},"type":"image","url":"https://d2j5ip5u6h2g6o.cloudfront.net/04-06-2025/t_b3c9d38505c645429fc7adc97de7d397_name_2208169098"}},"subtype":"irish-times-video","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Video"},{"name":"World"},{"name":"Americas"}]},"type":"video","website_url":"/video/video/2025/04/06/hundreds-of-thousands-of-americans-protest-against-trump/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/video","name":"Video"}}}},{"_id":"988fa0d2-b71b-4364-bbaa-5a87dcaeaa01","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/video/video/2025/04/06/video-shows-aid-workers-killed-in-gaza-with-ambulance-lights-on/","credits":{},"description":{"basic":"Israeli military has admitted that the accounts from troops involved in the killing of 15 paramedics and rescue workers in Gaza had been partially “mistaken”."},"display_date":"2025-04-06T06:58:56Z","embed_html":"<div class=\"powa\" id=\"powa-988fa0d2-b71b-4364-bbaa-5a87dcaeaa01\" data-org=\"irishtimes\" data-env=\"prod\" data-uuid=\"988fa0d2-b71b-4364-bbaa-5a87dcaeaa01\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.562\" data-api=\"prod\"><script src=\"//irishtimes.video-player.arcpublishing.com/prod/powaBoot.js?org=irishtimes\"><\/script></div>","headlines":{"basic":"Video shows aid workers killed in Gaza with ambulance lights on"},"promo_items":{"basic":{"auth":{"1":"a24cdd7b8a5e0d02f12723f6fa7112ce3c53eb28af6795b473ae3198060d1aab"},"type":"image","url":"https://d2j5ip5u6h2g6o.cloudfront.net/04-06-2025/t_f899134055d141a28a958d3c884f5494_name_GAZA.jpg"}},"subtype":"irish-times-video","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Video"},{"name":"World"},{"name":"Middle East"}]},"type":"video","website_url":"/video/video/2025/04/06/video-shows-aid-workers-killed-in-gaza-with-ambulance-lights-on/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/video","name":"Video"}}}},{"_id":"EEIIVI7IDRAUNDLSVIPUN4Y5UE","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":433,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/537bd796-468b-4bb6-9ac2-27ba2e09dad2/versions/1743922095/media/b54b50f6516878bdda516e2099a65d74_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/world/us/2025/04/06/it-makes-me-sick-mass-anti-trump-protests-in-us-cities-see-americans-express-their-fear-and-loathing/","content_elements":[{"_id":"GOP2LDHJB5FY3LXXOT2GHTMWGQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"To those of us crammed in the Red Line carriage at Metro Centre, the passing figure was like an apparition. She walked, head bowed and face obscured, in the ankle-length loose red dress and white bonnet made famous by the television series of Margaret Atwood’s novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"MQ7C3MOAFNDZFJHMM3NLIEE5WI","additional_properties":{},"content":"A thicket of people carrying signs and slogans, all bound for the National Mall for the lunchtime protests, parted as she made her way through the crowd along the platform. Then the doors closed and the train shuddered into life. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"NZLHVAKBC5FJ5IT5WML2KF5WDY","additional_properties":{},"content":"DC police were planning for around 20,000 people to gather at the National Mall and for a separate Pro-Palestine protest close to the Capitol. The estimated number ranged from 60,000 to 100,000. The hilly verge around the National Monument had the expectant air of a mass concert festival in that lull time between acts. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"AEA6MLUWORCOVMYVDXMZS5TDYA","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"N7YPFFNAHFC4TLUFSGH6DJZLM4","additional_properties":{},"content":"There were speakers, led by Maryland congressman Jamie Raskin. But it was clear that people made the effort to be there simply to gather and form part of the swell of human opposition. It was the same in Chicago, Boston and New York, where the crowd on Fifth Avenue reportedly stretched for 20 blocks.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GAS4XHEZK5E2DAT737D4R4XZ7I","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Disgust. I don’t know what else to say” said Cathy O’Donnell when asked what had compelled her to fly in from Ohio for the event. She was there with her sister Alison and their friend Jenny.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XOMDOHGCBRESJG326TBKW4UNSI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I’m gonna be seventy soon,” O’Donnell explained.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GJJBICC5UBG2THFWBBPJQOTJDU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The only thing I want for my birthday is for him to be gone. This is not ok. My father fought in World War II against the fascists. All of what they are doing – destroying the government, taking things from people, it makes me sick. I can’t sleep at night. It’s just terrible. I have been protesting in Columbus and I thought, well, the place I want to be today is in DC.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"K6J6KEYIEJGNDNZBZDYGICSR34","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"2YQHBVJXOFCUXOLWSN3O5M3XVE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The trio are long-time friends. As we talk, fears for the future of US education – “They are banning books, telling teachers what to teach,” said Alison – the integrity of elections and the right to simply participate in future protests emerge as their chief concerns.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4CQWYKFGJJF7RDMIKQZA4TEHVI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I used to think it was hyperbole,” her sister said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V2K4PX37NFHIVPVQ7Q2QH67724","additional_properties":{},"content":"“But I can’t imagine that I am living in a story from the history books. I am actually afraid whether or not we will still be voting in 2026. And America is not just the United States. There is talk about stuff like this, about them bringing in anti-protesters to invoke violence so that they can use the insurrection act.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4743XMAGTZCNDN7SI7HCXNIMQI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Some people think that will be soon; by the end of April,” agreed Jenny.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AHN7HIS4DNCZVGA7QUIR7YOFMI","additional_properties":{},"content":"From the vantage point of the National Monument, the Mall was a river of people and placards running as far as the Capitol Building. The slogans were funny, profane, despairing, defiant, and the vast majority were devoted to protests against perceived attacks on the constitution, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk/\">Elon Musk</a>‘s shadowy role, the ineffectiveness of Congress and innumerable signs and sketches portraying president Trump in Nazi Germany regalia. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"PZIULXGY3VEV7AQJXNVLWL4ILU","additional_properties":{},"content":"The absence of any reference to the ongoing global alarm over Trump’s newly unveiled tariff policy was striking. It was as though, for this crowd, the prospect of higher prices and plummeting pension plans was the least of it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LVVNT5MHMJGZHDCE4DNCERSP2A","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Smiths flew in from Montana to be in Washington. They were there specifically to give voice to what they see as the appalling treatment by the Trump administration of Canada.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VG2I53W5KVGJBJSYNTI36XOVXI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We love Canada,” was Byron Smith’s simple explanation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I2YXEAL4OFFNPA3OOBT54Y2Q3Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We have had nothing but goodwill from them and to them. It’s just ridiculous and insulting and horrible that we are treating them that way.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"HJXJEGSFTBG6VNUMSFUBOB5CVE","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"E656I3OKO5FX5IZS3UCZ46FPFE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We get all our good booze from Canada!” chips in Kelly Smith. “Which comes from Europe. Which is way better than America’s. Sorry America!”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5CRFDILI5VCVDBZVVBLJ3OUE4E","additional_properties":{},"content":"We chat about life in Montana – the global popularity of the modern western show Yellowstone; the mind-blowing landscape, the brutal winters. The Smiths have been living in a cabin built by Byron’s father half a century ago. The lifestyle there is sublime, remote, tough and intensely local. Montana is, in presidential elections, a tick-box Republican state now. Since 1948, it has returned only Lyndon Johnson and Bill Clinton as Democrats in elections for the White House.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OOZFACKJHJF3DLS56SVWZCT2R4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“My grandfather was a miner in Butte, Montana,” Byron said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5MUHRBKXOZHXHBA73WZPANAU5I","additional_properties":{},"content":"“They were abused and that’s when the state was solidly Democratic. And I am not against outsiders at all but when people come in with a lot of money, such as our new senator...”","type":"text"},{"_id":"WM5FQ2XSSZESPNBDWPWVQ36L64","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Because people come with a lot of money and just buy it,” Kelly said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SRBIRXODPJB4FE5OTMLB7J27RI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“People are out there driving their tractors and they are listening to these shows – it is not like BBC; it’s just some station they can get out on the field ... and they get brainwashed.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"QT74V2M5QNF2PJPUWIS37CLHBU","additional_properties":{},"content":"About a 15-minute walk away, Laura Loomer, the prominent far-right Trump loyalist and podcaster whose meeting with the president led to the immediate firing of six National Security Council members on Friday, spent her afternoon posting videos of details of the bus companies “used today to bus Muslim and radicals leftist protesters into Washington”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CCDUJNREVJFI7NYVALPHFB3ENE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The president himself, meantime, was at his golf course enjoying an elite tournament in Doral, Florida, seemingly unmoved by the smoke billowing from the stock exchange mechanisms whose buoyant health he traditionally regarded as a symbol of popularity. 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But after what has been a chastening week for the Republican administration – <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/04/02/wisconsin-election-gives-democrats-glimmer-of-hope-as-trump-tariff-decision-looms/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/04/02/wisconsin-election-gives-democrats-glimmer-of-hope-as-trump-tariff-decision-looms/\">a comprehensive defeat</a> in the high-profile Wisconsin supreme court election followed by the unnervingly severe stock market response to the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/04/03/donald-trump-us-tariffs-liberation-day/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/04/03/donald-trump-us-tariffs-liberation-day/\">roll-out of the tariff-inspired ‘Liberation Day’</a> – the president cannot be unaware of Saturday’s demonstrations. 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This is the path I chose – to help people,” he says. “Allahu akbar,” God is great, he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WGWF266KRZEMRK3XWEFVPX6N7I","additional_properties":{},"content":"In the backdrop, a commotion of voices from distraught aid workers and soldiers shouting commands in Hebrew at each other can be heard. It was not clear what they were saying.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NELHWLRN55B37EZJKTGIUCJCZY","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Palestine Red Crescent Society spokesperson, Nebal Farsakh, said in an interview from the West Bank city of Ramallah that the paramedic who filmed the video was later found with a bullet in his head in the mass grave. His name has not yet been disclosed because he has relatives living in Gaza who are concerned about Israeli retaliation, the UN diplomat said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ELPVCUYC2RCZ3GXAERHMFNLG2A","additional_properties":{},"content":"At the news conference, the president of the Palestine Red Crescent Society, Dr Younis Al-Khatib, and his deputy, Marwan Jilani, told reporters that the evidence the society has collected – including the video and audio from the incident, and forensic examination of the bodies – contradicted Israel’s version of events","type":"text"},{"_id":"6TDQTIOZFRGVTBU77LNHMTGXBQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The deaths of the aid workers, who first went missing on March 23rd, has drawn international scrutiny and condemnation in recent days. The UN and the Palestine Red Crescent said the aid workers were not carrying weapons and posed no threat.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PRXY7NNSBNCGRKRJLINCUP3SYM","additional_properties":{},"content":"An Irishman in Israel: Is it better for my Israeli daughters to grow up in Tel Aviv or Dublin?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"JCBETZGQ2NFMXDTUNYN6MTMSN4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Their bodies have been targeted from a very close range,” said Mr Khatib, adding that Israel did not provide information on the missing medics’ whereabouts for days. “They knew exactly where they were because they killed them,” he said. “Their colleagues were in agony, their families were in agony. They kept us for eight days in the dark.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"CXKMCMUOS5E2LG2ZJVB7WJ3YHY","additional_properties":{},"content":"It took five days after the rescue vehicles came under attack and fell silent for the UN and Red Crescent to negotiate with the Israeli military for safe passage to search for the missing people. On Sunday, rescue teams found 15 bodies, most in a shallow mass grave along with their crushed ambulances and a vehicle marked with the UN logo.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YLHAZW6BOZ2R5NTTXCPISRI23Y","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"IYPOUWBKJJD2PNQCMN5L7T2KEE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The area where the convoy stops in the video was captured in a satellite image a few hours later and analysed by the Times. At that point, the five ambulances and the fire truck had been moved off the road and clustered together.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3CH7XLKSJVDZXFWBAADXICH6UA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Two days later, a new satellite image of the area showed the vehicles were apparently buried. Next to disturbed earth are three Israeli military bulldozers and an excavator. Additionally, bulldozers erected earthen barriers on the road in both directions from the mass grave.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HQ54X6YRPNHBNJPB3SHB4DJS5U","additional_properties":{},"content":"One member of the Palestinian Red Crescent is still missing, and Israel has not said whether he is detained or has been killed, Mr Khatib said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J6E5FAK7U5EA5NITILEULHWAME","additional_properties":{},"content":"IDF conducts ground operations in Shujaiyeh neighbourhood of Gaza city","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"3X3QPCTDFJGSDDFJVRK34HXBA4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Dr Ahmad Dhair, a forensic doctor who examined some of the bodies in Gaza’s Nasser Hospital, said four out of the five aid workers he examined were killed by multiple gunshots, including wounds to the head, torso, chest and joints. One paramedic employee of the Red Crescent in the convoy was detained and then released by the Israeli military and provided a witness account of the Israeli military shooting at the ambulances, the UN and Red Crescent Society said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PRRD77IEQNBO3AZMT7GGIW7DBM","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"FZKDKXUIKZG35KAX77LGDBJAAI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Dylan Winder, the representative of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to the UN, called the incident an outrage and said it represented the single deadliest attack on Red Cross and Red Crescent Society workers anywhere in the world since 2017.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J57BMFSZFFF3NHCLMDXFQCBAFI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Volker Türk, the UN’s high commissioner for human rights, told the council that an independent investigation must be conducted into Israel’s killing of the aid workers and that the incident raises “further concerns over the commission of war crimes by the Israeli military”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"T3PJZJIU6REDBCKK2LCWS3SL34","additional_properties":{},"content":"This article originally appeared in <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/world/middleeast/gaza-israel-aid-workers-deaths-video.html\">The New York Times</a>.","type":"text"}],"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"Video contradicts Israel’s version of events, which said the vehicles were ‘advancing suspiciously’ without headlights or emergency signals"},"display_date":"2025-04-05T11:38:15.614Z","headlines":{"basic":"Video emerges of aid workers killed in Gaza under gunfire barrage, with ambulance lights on","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"CYWFOHM7XO5HH7ZUIOTDLBGTLQ","auth":{"1":"590eebb97c1bdc84067778052717549921535efd6a0b2a8a35d7416de4c7edb7"},"focal_point":{"x":3116,"y":2047},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/CYWFOHM7XO5HH7ZUIOTDLBGTLQ.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Middle East"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/middle-east/2025/04/05/video-emerges-of-aid-workers-killed-in-gaza-under-gunfire-barrage-with-ambulance-lights-on/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/middle-east","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Middle East"}}}},{"_id":"GGWXL4OXJJHV5B5I5AKU7OP7FU","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":987,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/6b53fceb-323c-461b-8290-42c45c592281/versions/1743850620/media/73cd6eb4fc0dc0c69480ce9b40df50aa_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/world/us/2025/04/05/theodore-mccarrick-disgraced-cardinal-defrocked-over-sexual-abuse-dies-at-94/","content_elements":[{"_id":"54ZKAM3TRBGPBKTIGS67ANH37M","additional_properties":{},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/theodore-mccarrick/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/theodore-mccarrick/\">Theodore E McCarrick</a>, the former archbishop of Washington and the highest American prelate of the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/catholic-church/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/catholic-church/\">Roman Catholic Church</a> to be accused of sexually abusing minors and seminarians – a charge that stripped him of his ministry, his place in the College of Cardinals and his priesthood, reducing him to the status of a layman – has died. He was 94.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SX3LRW4RWRHENK5YIG6T7G5IHU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Cardinal Robert W McElroy, archbishop of Washington, confirmed the death in a statement, which provided no further details. A statement by the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/vatican/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/vatican/\">Vatican</a> said he died on Thursday in Missouri, where he had been reported to be living.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TJGVXCKJSBEM3LBIG4U26OLCUU","additional_properties":{},"content":"The accusations against the former cardinal, who had helped shape many of his church’s policies for responding to its sexual abuse crisis, were shocking but hardly incredible when they came to light in 2018, after a church investigation concluded that he had molested a teenage altar server in 1971 and 1972 while he was Monsignor in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/new-york-city/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/new-york-city/\">New York City</a>. Thousands of priests before him had faced charges of abuse, and the church had paid victims hundreds of millions in settlements.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L5DSAXZVGJF7HAFBQG3KBOCWTY","additional_properties":{},"content":"In 2012, Cardinal Bernard F Law, the archbishop of Boston and America’s senior prelate, resigned amid revelations that he had protected paedophile priests for years.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R643TAPV5NBGXJSON3ZL2PUL5U","additional_properties":{},"content":"Although McCarrick promptly resigned his ministry “at the direction of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/pope-francis/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/pope-francis/\">Pope Francis</a>”, church officials said, he contended that he was innocent, saying he had no recollection of the reported abuse. He co-operated with the church’s inquiry and did not contest its findings. “I am sorry for the pain the person who brought the charges has gone through, as well as for the scandal such charges cause our people,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VHBGYRSHPVAHXFSOVTYUBGJ62E","additional_properties":{},"content":"Other sexual misconduct allegations against him soon emerged. Cardinal Joseph W Tobin of Newark said that during a McCarrick ministry in Metuchen, New Jersey, in the 1980s, when McCarrick was bishop of the diocese there, three adults accused him of improprieties that led to two financial settlements. And former priests said he had had sexual contact with dozens of New Jersey seminarians, who called him “Uncle Ted”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4MISUWGCH5FCLEP4FJZ7F2K6OI","additional_properties":{},"content":"In 2018, as the allegations against McCarrick widened, the Vatican, moving expeditiously to contain a scandal at the highest levels of the church, announced that Pope Francis had accepted his resignation from the College of Cardinals, suspended him from priestly duties and ordered him into a secluded “life of prayer and penance”, pending the outcome of a canonical trial in early 2019.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VR4PRWG6MBDVPAZ5EMLUATCJ6Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"He temporarily remained a priest, with the title of archbishop, but was stripped of his highest honour, his designation as a cardinal, and church officials said he would no longer be called on to advise the pope or travel on his behalf.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AJSPVQPJ4FGYXK4F2BTDW2KPCU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Resignations from the College of Cardinals for any reason are extremely rare – the last one, by a French prelate in 1927, was over political tensions with the Holy See. McCarrick was said to be the first cardinal in history to step down because of sexual abuse allegations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XSHHFSSSPZPVQI5XTQZLXAKGCM","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"JU7663I7H5CNRMVRTQTSWLLKPI","additional_properties":{},"content":"In a final ignominy, the Vatican announced in February 2019 that Francis had <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/former-cardinal-expelled-from-priesthood-over-sex-abuse-allegations-1.3796637\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/former-cardinal-expelled-from-priesthood-over-sex-abuse-allegations-1.3796637\">expelled the archbishop from the priesthood</a> after the canonical trial had found him guilty of sexually abusing minors and adult seminarians over decades.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4CLIUF2EENESBC57YDBLVML6ZY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The Holy Father has recognised the definitive nature of this decision made in accord with law,” the Vatican said of the sentence handed down by the church’s doctrinal watchdog, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which also rejected an appeal by the defendant.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YZQX7UFMP5AFRBB2IKHMGCOGPU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Vatican officials said it appeared to be the first time that a former cardinal in the United States had been defrocked, or returned to the laity and stripped of all priestly identity, and the first time a former cardinal had been laicised for sexual abuse. Indeed, while hundreds of priests had been laicised for sexually abusing minors, few of the church’s leaders had faced severe discipline.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NP63FZAWYFCKJLIGCL753IIEK4","additional_properties":{},"content":"In late July 2021, criminal charges were lodged against the former cardinal for the first time, accusing him of assaulting a 16-year-old boy in 1974 at a wedding reception for the boy’s brother on the grounds of Wellesley College in Massachusetts. The name of the victim, now in his 60s, was redacted in a complaint.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VYIG46PBIVDG3JCU5MSPAE5R7M","additional_properties":{},"content":"Former US cardinal Theodore McCarrick charged with abusing minor","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"7ZPYJ6YBMVEK7ESEDW4AADGK64","additional_properties":{},"content":"Filed by the Wellesley police in Dedham District Court, the complaint charged McCarrick with three counts of indecent assault and battery on the boy on June 8, 1974, during a walk together on the college grounds and later in a cloakroom in the hall where the wedding reception took place. Each count carried a penalty of up to five years in prison. An arraignment was set for September that year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FJZQMDXN7RF37IAYMDOCDRJ6LU","additional_properties":{},"content":"To the frustration of many prosecutors, and victims and their families, McCarrick avoided punishment time and again because statutes of limitations had made cases difficult to pursue. But the Wellesley charges were allowed to proceed because of a feature of Massachusetts law: The clock on the statute of limitations stopped when McCarrick was not in the state.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZOZKFJBBJSZNNQ63UTYCJNATXU","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"7WXGTNIJDNAYXIU3M6U2RYFNKE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The accuser told investigators that he had been assaulted by McCarrick repeatedly over many years into adulthood in New York, New Jersey and California. In addition to the accuser’s criminal charges, several lawsuits were filed in New York and New Jersey in recent years by men accusing McCarrick of sexually assaulting them when they were minors.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AYV2RPDIUVCHLLZF724MTFJLN4","additional_properties":{},"content":"On April 17, 2023, as the public furore over the litany of accusations against McCarrick seemed to be fading, he was charged in a second criminal complaint with sexually assaulting a 19-year-old in 1977 at a home on Geneva Lake in southern Wisconsin, where they were both guests. Prosecutors said the victim was swimming off a dock when McCarrick and another man entered the water and fondled his genitals without his consent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RKMM3FKQS5EDHJJDEIML4HJSLQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The complaint said that the victim, who was not named, also claimed that McCarrick had sexually assaulted him on numerous occasions and in other states, first exposing himself to the victim when he was 11. A lawyer for McCarrick, Barry Coburn, said he had no comment on the new charge or on the ongoing Massachusetts case. Both cases were able to proceed because McCarrick was not a resident of the state, and statutes of limitation did not expire once he left the states.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6XOYAP5ZYVFOVMRIGT7BTM3BMM","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"G7LPWZYMUFCY5L5PCMHEMFKOF4","additional_properties":{},"content":"An investigation by The New York Times in 2018 revealed that members of the church hierarchy had known for decades about accusations that McCarrick had preyed on men who aspired to the priesthood, sexually harassing and touching them. In addition, a 60-year-old man, who called himself only “James” in his contacts with the Times, but who subsequently identified himself publicly as James Grein, told the newspaper and Vatican investigators that McCarrick, a close family friend, had begun to abuse him in 1969, when he was 11 years old, and that the abuse had continued for almost two decades.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LDFZPXQKSJE73O5LCZDEPYIKOY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Many of the questions about how McCarrick was able to avoid exposure for his crimes seemed to have been answered by a Washington Post investigation in late 2019, showing that starting in 2001, he had sent cheques totalling more than $600,000 to 100 powerful Catholic clerics, including Vatican officials, some of them directly involved in assessing misconduct claims against him. The cheques were drawn from a special charity account of the Archdiocese of Washington, where he began serving as archbishop in 2001, the Post said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CHRKY2C2EJTEOHYPR4YLDKMZPE","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"UP65UZLVA5Q5SJ526YTDLOB7N4","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"3GMKXLMF75FKNEQ6GQBH4MOLDM","additional_properties":{},"content":"In November 2020, the Vatican released a report detailing how the disgraced former prelate had risen through the church hierarchy despite long-standing allegations of sexual misconduct. The report, based on an investigation commissioned by Pope Francis, in which he largely absolved himself, put fault chiefly on his predecessors, Pope Benedict XVI, and in particular on Pope John Paul II. It said John Paul had ignored explicit warnings about sexual abuse by McCarrick, choosing to believe his denials and “misleading and inaccurate” accounts by several American bishops. Three of the four bishops, it said, found that McCarrick had shared a bed with seminarians and young adult men, but said they were not sure there had been sexual contact.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JV5V7HOU6BCFBM6TC52CX6S37U","additional_properties":{},"content":"Fluent in Spanish, French, Italian and German, McCarrick – an advocate for progressive social causes who also reinforced church dogma – served as John Paul’s emissary on human rights missions for years, travelling to war and disaster zones for Catholic Relief Services and to developing countries to assess religious freedoms.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YU5OQUCXYREYVM7ZTFBOTJX6SM","additional_properties":{},"content":"He was often exposed to danger. He reported atrocities in Lebanon, Rwanda and Kosovo; was detained by gunmen in Bosnia; toured China for the US State Department; and assessed eastern Europe for the church after the cold war. He met Fidel Castro in Cuba and went to Vietnam seeking greater religious freedoms for its people.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DMFPU7I32VETZJOJZZJQJA27HU","additional_properties":{},"content":"After decades as a Vatican troubleshooter, he was appointed by John Paul in November 2000 to preside over the Archdiocese of Washington; he was soon named a cardinal. He was 70, five years short of normal retirement age, but his diplomatic skills and friendships with President Bill Clinton and other VIPs made him a natural choice for the hub of American and world political affairs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PFAT227SUFGOBPAE3JLOCMTFQU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Over the next five years, he became a popular spiritual leader of 560,000 Catholics in 140 parishes in the District of Columbia and five Maryland counties, including 200,000 Spanish-speaking and 100,000 African American Catholics. He was also one of the most visible Catholic churchmen in United States, appearing on public affairs shows and profiled and quoted in magazines and newspapers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AUHKG6V62VGOFGOU3JDF7NOW5M","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"AZJAGLHKX5AVBMZXINKQV6NOHI","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"3N4MIEIUMRFLJBOFDJBOIOU6XQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"TGLLC2PL35ASVIJRX3FTZT6EI4","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"KW3AGOHO5NGCHAFVIWWHKWSS5M","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"MKMTX5T3DZDVVKTJBTQ2ZKBI5E","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"EFTZMNEDGFF7XANGSAFO4KA6IM","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"HIXBR2KIUNATZMTRN6WHR7VNUA","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"NQN4LVNVPRG4VLON4ECWYWKPZU","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"UG5EQC4EVVBB5AJIF5B6BCTS44","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"NTNJD7JENNHLZHOR3ONDRW5CYY","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"J7C7OG5T2VFRXJDMZGYF3FA5SU","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"GUPDILYWMRFCFAS3V6BI554TOA","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"DFR3XE25HNBGNNUUPMN3GZNL4Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"A3ITAD7UHBG25LS47YFJUNWVDQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"7GZUHDYB7ZBTDB55APPEDNWFZQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"MJK2L6XUT5AQLCJQGB4AF6AUCM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Theodore Edgar McCarrick was born in New York City on July 7, 1930, the only child of Theodore Egan McCarrick and Margaret (McLaughlin) McCarrick. His father, a ship’s captain, died of tuberculosis when the boy was 3, and his mother worked in a Bronx auto parts factory. He was an altar boy in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan, where he grew up.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZIGDCTSIIZHALPNSUVTTNCKRBY","additional_properties":{},"content":"He went to Fordham Preparatory School, then spent a year in Switzerland studying languages. He also resolved to become a priest. He attended Fordham University and St Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy in 1954 and a master’s in history in 1958. He was ordained by Cardinal Francis Spellman of New York in 1958.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FSVBP7HVSBGAHOYNIDSW2GI46E","additional_properties":{},"content":"At The Catholic University of United States in Washington, he earned a master’s in social science in 1960 and a doctorate in sociology in 1963. From 1965 to 1969, he was president of the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico. Recalled to New York, he became an education aide to Cardinal Terence Cooke for two years and his private secretary for six years.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MWSNN3PCN5BK7OBF6USVMTJYOA","additional_properties":{},"content":"In 1976, he met Cardinal Karol Wojtyla of Poland, the future Pope John Paul II, who was visiting New York as part of a trip to attend the International Eucharistic Congress held that year in Philadelphia. In 1977, Pope Paul VI named him auxiliary bishop of New York, and in 1981, John Paul made him the first bishop of Metuchen, a new diocese in New Jersey, where he founded parishes and outreach programmes for Black and Hispanic Catholics.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OUKTBJSITNBV3DBKMAZQCSH6VQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Named archbishop of Newark, New Jersey, in 1986, he presided for 14 years over 1.3 million Catholics in four counties. He developed programmes to help HIV victims and combat drug abuse. In the 1990s, after the fall of Soviet communism, he visited Poland, Romania, Russia and war-torn republics of the former Yugoslavia.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2U6PQJUTLZDDVPJLO3JXLPIR64","additional_properties":{},"content":"McCarrick investigated human rights violations on two missions to Bosnia. In 1992, he saw destroyed towns and throngs of refugees, and under rocket and artillery fire he was nearly taken hostage at a border crossing. In 1994, he inspected war-crime scenes and was detained by Serbian gunmen. He also went to Rwanda, where more than 800,000 Tutsi had been slaughtered by Hutu militias. Clinton presented him with the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights in 2000.","type":"text"},{"_id":"22ECVKSDY5EDZCAYTH6HQ65WMU","additional_properties":{},"content":"After retiring in 2006, McCarrick lived in Washington, occasionally travelling abroad as an unofficial Vatican ambassador. He spoke at a graveside service for Senator Edward M Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery in 2009.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6GSYVMUQZBCORABP2VZLXOYAP4","additional_properties":{},"content":"In 2013, he passed out while celebrating Mass at St Peter’s Basilica in Rome, was diagnosed with a heart problem and had a pacemaker installed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"22VGQO5GWRH3JJLU4PGXLFMRFE","additional_properties":{},"content":"On June 20, 2018, he was thrust back into the spotlight when the Archdiocese of New York announced that he had been removed from the ministry after an inquiry affirmed accusations that he had long ago sexually abused an altar boy at St Patrick’s Cathedral.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WNUFL2U3ERDPXIT2AR2LVWPVKY","additional_properties":{},"content":"The allegations had been made months earlier by the victim, a married businessman in New Jersey who asked to remain anonymous, to the archdiocese’s Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Program, which since its inception in 2016 had paid out $55 million to settle sexual abuse cases out of court.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M4ZXH5KJMFFTNAPHEYZGMQCMJA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Patrick Noaker, a lawyer for the man, said that in 1971, his client had been a student at Cathedral Preparatory School and Seminary in Queens, hoping to become a priest. He was selected to serve at the Christmas Mass at St Patrick’s Cathedral, a prestigious honour, and had been summoned to St Patrick’s to be measured for a cassock.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A3IP2WLJUFFGXP3ASLVKY6DT3Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"In the cathedral sacristy, McCarrick, at the time a Monsignor who was Cooke’s personal secretary, began measuring him. Noaker said that the Monsignor, “under the guise of measuring his inseam, unzipped his pants, and sexually assaulted him,” adding, “The kid had just turned 16, and kind of pulled back, and McCarrick was a little surprised by that.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"64UHZQKRUFFYPJX5IIVRMI566I","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Let’s not tell anyone about this,” the Monsignor told the student, Noaker said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ICS4AFMP5NBSPJ2CWKV5M2TQKE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Over the following year, he said, McCarrick occasionally saw the youth and praised his looks. Selected again in 1972 to be a Christmas Mass altar server, the victim was measured by another man, but McCarrick cornered him in a bathroom, Noaker said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EKHIPH3BA5HGXN4RKO75SDAKIU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“He just came in, grabbed him, shoved his hand into his pants and tried to get his hand into his underwear, and the kid had to struggle and push him away,” the lawyer said. “These were significant sexual assaults.” He said the events had lasting effects on his client, whose life, and plans for the priesthood, “fell apart.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"P3HHGN4L2BBENGPOPQT5MUNMBU","additional_properties":{},"content":"A statute of limitations prevented prosecution in New York, but the cardinal was barred from contact with young people in the Washington Archdiocese, where he lived at a Little Sisters of the Poor retirement home.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7PLMEEAWAZDKRHASC7WNNZJW6M","additional_properties":{},"content":"Pope accepts US cardinal’s resignation following sex abuse scandal","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"BLSK4H57YJEWBGJG3XVLDU6BAU","additional_properties":{},"content":"As others came forward with accounts of sexual abuse by the cardinal against seminarians, the Vatican announced on July 28, 2018, that Pope Francis had accepted his resignation from the College of Cardinals. Later, prohibited from engaging in any public ministry and pending the outcome of canonical charges against him, he was sent to live at the Capuchin St Fidelis Friary in Victoria, Kansas. In 2021, he was reported to be living in Missouri.","type":"text"},{"_id":"65Q3CMKJEZEUJETI6AJWSWMMAM","additional_properties":{},"content":"On February 16th, 2019, the Vatican announced that McCarrick had been found guilty in the canonical trial of several crimes: “Solicitation in the Sacrament of Confession, and sins against the Sixth Commandment with minors and with adults, with the aggravating factor of the abuse of power.” It also said McCarrick had been laicised, stripping him of all priestly identity and revoking church-sponsored resources like housing and financial benefits.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HD2XLLYAQ5CO7DVKLXNM4YVFS4","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"2PNGPNYHI5EIXMLPQ4MBQEYO3A","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"TDGS4YMOE5B2PNNIKQODWBZG6Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"6ZSU36RUAZFQLO7EE2ZRQ3K6N4","additional_properties":{},"content":"This article originally appeared in <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/us/theodore-mccarrick-dead.html\">The New York Times</a>.","type":"text"}],"credits":{"by":[{"name":"Robert D. 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The largely grassroots antigovernment demonstrations have grown steadily since the collapse of the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/hamas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/hamas/\">Hamas</a>-Israel ceasefire a month ago.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N2CWRZ7ZIVHENGACNMGKSS6JLE","additional_properties":{},"content":"But make no mistake, this is no anti-war movement, let alone an act of humanitarian solidarity with the civilian population of Gaza. These are demonstrations demanding a total cessation of hostilities in exchange for the return of all remaining hostages held by Hamas, 29 of whom are believed to be still alive in tunnels after almost 550 days of captivity. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"7MB7APUWU5ACPBYY4MGIA2HFII","additional_properties":{},"content":"The fate of Gaza, including the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/middle-east/2025/04/02/gaza-strip-israel-hamas-war/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/middle-east/2025/04/02/gaza-strip-israel-hamas-war/\">grim plight of Palestinian children</a>, continues to barely register on Israeli television channels. Apart from the left-leaning <a href=\"https://www.haaretz.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.haaretz.com/\">Haaretz</a> newspaper, the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/middle-east/2025/03/23/gaza-strip-lebanon-israel-hamas-war-latest-news/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/middle-east/2025/03/23/gaza-strip-lebanon-israel-hamas-war-latest-news/\">grim milestone of 50,000 Palestinian deaths</a> passed almost without comment in the mainstream news media last week. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"U5LCXPGWG5D7ZGMP6P3DN7GTP4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Irish surgeon returns from Gaza: ‘Every night there were more children brought in dead’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"VC44CUQ3CFEEDAZH2W6SQFFWNQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Last week I brought my eight-year-old daughter to the largest of the most recent antigovernment demonstrations, where an estimated 40,000 Israelis gathered in Habima square in the heart of Tel Aviv. We marched the 2km from our home with families from our neighbourhood, the mood ebullient, at times raucous. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"KEISW54DYZAHDKYI5PWGJASZQY","additional_properties":{},"content":"The atmosphere in the square was darker. At times it was palpably angry at the failure of the Netanyahu government to secure the release of the remaining hostages. The focus of many of the speeches, including that of the leader of the opposition Yair Lapid, switched seamlessly between the plight of the hostages and the government’s so-called “judicial overhaul”. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"TNGL3JP5GJBNJB5XYYYGE5GAFE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The architects of that overhaul have been accused of subverting Israeli democracy by gutting the oversight powers of the Israeli judiciary and centralising authority – including the appointment of Supreme Court judges – in the hands of the government. Signs in Hebrew and English included “Save our constitution”<i> </i>and “Stop this crazy dictatorship”<i>.</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"6OHDLE4PYNF6PHGTSHKMCKMX74","additional_properties":{},"content":"Truth be told, this is less a political battle over the management of the judiciary, than a battle between an old and new Israel. The Israel of yesteryear, the Israel of the demonstrators is arguably a fight to preserve the status quo and the privileges of the secular, largely <a href=\"https://hms.harvard.edu/news/ancient-dna-provides-new-insights-ashkenazi-jewish-history#:~:text=About%20half%20of%20Jewish%20people,the%20Rhineland%20in%20western%20Germany.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://hms.harvard.edu/news/ancient-dna-provides-new-insights-ashkenazi-jewish-history#:~:text=About%20half%20of%20Jewish%20people,the%20Rhineland%20in%20western%20Germany.\">Ashkenazi</a> middle class. This is an Israel that professes to be progressive but has long given up on proffering serious solutions to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and instead has largely resigned itself to the “management” of the occupation. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"IWBTZVTZPBF7ZJACHBBIWCDA2A","subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"KF3UE66ZG5DSVM3BDGSQB3BKW4","additional_properties":{},"content":"The demonstrators nevertheless present themselves today as the heroic, plucky street defenders of Israeli democracy against something darker. That something is indeed darker, but it has little to do with the arcane machinations of how Supreme Court judges are appointed. This is a government whose ministers <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/02/israel-announces-intention-seize-large-areas-gaza-strip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/02/israel-announces-intention-seize-large-areas-gaza-strip\">talk openly</a> about annexation, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/middle-east/2025/02/18/israel-sets-up-body-to-facilitate-emigration-of-palestinians-from-gaza/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/middle-east/2025/02/18/israel-sets-up-body-to-facilitate-emigration-of-palestinians-from-gaza/\">transfer</a> and ethnic cleansing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OYGOYQVDKRGC5IHQB3ITJFAYWA","embed":{"config":{},"id":"acast_podcast-24509","url":"/"},"subtype":"acast_podcast","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"7TWAHBYTYZBVRKEW32BU7YG7GU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Netanyahu, already under indictment for corruption, was embroiled in a fresh scandal this week over the funnelling of funds from Qatar via the PM’s office to Hamas. But despite the escalating demonstrations and renewed calls for his immediate resignation, the prime minister’s grip on power seems more potent than ever. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"NZWJNK7K7VC77OBYZ3BV435CQU","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Likud party of Binyamin Netanyahu may languish at 20 per cent in the polls, but the wider coalition continues to have the support of more than four in 10 Israelis. With the return to government of the far-right party of firebrand ex-minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, Netanyahu has a comfortable majority in the Knesset. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"CT45Q7S2C5FKZI7RYFMN3MCGHM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Palestinian paramedics shot by Israeli forces had hands tied, eyewitnesses say","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"3VIDDHYF4JAT5E436P4BWGY2RA","additional_properties":{},"content":"The prime minister is unlikely to be fazed by 100,000 Israelis on the streets, the overwhelming majority of whom would have never voted for him anyway. Netanyahu is also likely to find comfort that the demonstrations have yet to reach the dizzy heights of the summer of 2023, when up to 500,000 Israelis took to the streets across the country.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RLB4HYKU5BCBVHRAF25VS5TSYI","additional_properties":{},"content":"As I stood in Habima Square last Saturday clasping my daughter’s hand and she energetically waved an Israeli flag in a sea of swaying flags, screaming from the top of her little lungs “dem-o-cra-tia”, I couldn’t help but think, that this chant, the rallying cry of the anti-Netanyahu demonstrations two years ago now rang hollow. Shouts of “dem-o-cra-tia” and accusations of judicial sabotage now seemed like a hangover of a different era, disconnected from the war on Gaza. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"FZU3LZUFLBDHHLICIZZSJ4XLVY","additional_properties":{},"content":"The images of that war, let alone images of dead Palestinian children, were nowhere to be seen – not that I had expected to see any – but posters with “Save our constitution” in the context of the death of 50,000 Palestinians felt profoundly insular and frankly bizarre.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IBL5BQT4MVARRGBAF3OXYX5EP4","additional_properties":{},"content":"I felt a pit in my stomach, and couldn’t help but think to myself: why am I here? Not just in this square, rallying to the defence of the Israeli judiciary – a pillar of the Israeli occupation – but why am I here at all, in Israel, with my two young Israeli daughters? And that despite the undeniable rise in anti-Semitism and a visceral hatred of all things Israeli in Ireland, would it not be better for them to grow up in Dublin?","type":"text"},{"_id":"VSFDUHLDP5EDJF5PAAQ3R2A6KE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<i>Paul Kearns is a freelance journalist from Dublin who lives in Tel Aviv</i>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Paul Kearns"}]},"description":{"basic":"World View: The grim milestone of 50,000 Palestinian deaths passed almost without comment in Israel"},"display_date":"2025-04-05T06:31:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"An Irishman in Israel: Is it better for my Israeli daughters to grow up in Tel Aviv or Dublin?","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"5469"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"O27UI4LQL6KNTK3GJGFT7YFASM","auth":{"1":"56ada9ce4535e6bfda0953864d48183c0bfb3d2964d3f157e625d0d0a09d9db6"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/O27UI4LQL6KNTK3GJGFT7YFASM.jpg"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Opinion"},{"name":"Abroad"},{"name":"World"},{"name":"Middle East"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/2025/04/05/an-irishman-in-israel-is-it-better-for-my-israeli-daughters-to-grow-up-in-tel-aviv-or-dublin/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Opinion"}}}},{"_id":"FEZ57RHJNZBUND7GURSQ5JRR7U","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":716,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/6c046978-7c75-4536-8bae-c535b0ff704a/versions/1743758375/media/4fd5e107eb6d837ac10ed5ab10de1872_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/world/asia-pacific/2025/04/05/we-try-to-assist-the-seed-of-belief-popes-deal-with-communist-party-draws-criticism-from-some-catholics-2/","content_elements":[{"_id":"IGZWR5QLEFDB7FE3FBS3GI3ZDI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776512},"content":"The <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/catholic-church\" target=\"_blank\">archbishop</a> processed up the aisle behind a group of priests, deacons and altar servers, one of them swinging a thurifer as it pumped out thick gusts of incense. Behind them, a great organ thundered from the loft, as one of the cathedral’s 10 choirs led the congregation in an introductory hymn.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RLJBF45CQRBS3H3JOPREKIHDGQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776514},"content":"This was high Mass at <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/china\" target=\"_blank\">Beijing</a>’s North Cathedral, a late 19th-century church near the city’s financial district built in the French Gothic style in the shape of a cross with an elaborate grey marble facade. There are holy water stoups inside each entrance, stations of the cross on the pillars lining the nave, votive statues in alcoves and side altars, and confessionals and a baptismal font at the back of the church.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YHQPSRSZPRDURHZ5MAAMSLJADI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776515},"content":"The church sits in a large compound and the courtyard outside features two gold-roofed pavilions and other Chinese architectural features including 60 carved lions. The stained glass windows show scenes from the history of the Catholic Church in China and one of the most popular shrines inside features a Chinese Madonna and child.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QDPB5WDE5ZHABLDMFVPIPFP6N4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776516},"content":"“It’s a combination of the West and the East, the Catholic Church and the Chinese culture,” said Fr Simon Zhu, who has been a priest at the cathedral since 2014.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VQW5RYBFE5AQTENGUFTNLUBT6A","additional_properties":{"_id":"FHKX4ZZE5JGDPMRYT43XC5QMZI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"KKMNUALFQNAIHKKSCDDM3DRST4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776517},"content":"“We feel very blessed to have such a design. Even 100 years ago, the missionaries already started inculturation or Sinicization, the combination of Catholic culture and Chinese culture, Catholic thinking, plus Chinese thinking, and combining the two together.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"IFW773WL4VEYBFWORQBFNZVWWY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776518},"content":"The principle of inculturation, adapting Christian teachings to local cultures, has a long tradition in the Catholic Church and the Jesuit Matteo Ricci blended Catholic faith with Chinese thinking in the 17th century. But the word Sinicization also refers to Xi Jinping’s policy that “religions in China must be Chinese in orientation”, incorporated into socialist society and independent of foreign influence.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZBWI7MQK7BGA5BDMKZDWLON54E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776519},"content":"The archbishop of Beijing, Joseph Li Shan, is also the president of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association (CCPA), the representative body for Catholics officially recognised by the Chinese Communist Party. Most of China’s roughly 10 million Catholics attend officially sanctioned churches such as the North Cathedral but a substantial minority belong to the so-called “underground church”, attending masses in unapproved venues and private homes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7MWOKIZ56FA3NKWLTASYJCFGBI","additional_properties":{"_id":"ING5LMUJPBFPVH7LPKWELZNB5I"},"content":"‘The feeling burned inside him still’: Love, death and superstition across the boundaries","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"7FAOHQ73UZGZRGJCGRYOASKXXU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776520},"content":"Under <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/pope-francis/\" target=\"_blank\">Pope Francis</a>, the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/vatican\" target=\"_blank\">Vatican</a> entered into an agreement with China in 2018 aimed at ending the division between the two Catholic communities by regularising the appointment of bishops. But the agreement, which was renewed last October for four years, has drawn criticism from some Catholics who fear it cedes too much influence to the Communist Party.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X4UTIPQQSFCVBKSO4ZNBPLDHSI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776521},"content":"The liturgy at high Mass at the cathedral was indistinguishable from that in any Catholic church in Europe and the archbishop’s sermon focused on the importance of faith and repentance. His only reference to any political issue was at the start of Mass when he said he hoped that China and the Vatican would soon establish diplomatic relations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IHXDZXNUB5GS5EUBTDRQTDUC3U","additional_properties":{"_id":"HNJ3YU25LJBQBL3237J3P3HT4M"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"OMBCD756VFHNLLW3FO5LTDW5Z4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776522},"content":"The cathedral parish has five priests and one deacon, and in a convent behind the church live 50 nuns from the Congregation of St Joseph, a French order that has been in Beijing for more than 150 years. Although the Beijing diocese is more than 700 years old, created by an Italian Franciscan missionary in 1307, Fr Zhu describes the Catholic Church in China as a developing church.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3GZUAGZAQRHWTO4LJQWRNY57IQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776523},"content":"“We would challenge our ministers, our church servers to watch how the developed church does things. Of course, number one, the standard for the Catholic Church, that’s Rome. So do whatever Rome does,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NER42GTGC5HWZJC7NRFPYSAKJM","additional_properties":{"_id":"AUULPXALFBDSBGOLAID3ZIRQM4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"WHWICDI5D5ABHEJNYWPJ4UVW5A","additional_properties":{"_id":"3LCQBJZ5TNETZH2NTFLHIOZBUE"},"content":"Vision of Pope Francis has signalled shift in how Vatican views women in leadership","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"MF4NAH65YRGM3FE3F43G4EG25M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776524},"content":"A small Chinese flag on Fr Zhu’s desk was the only symbol of the state I saw at the North Cathedral and his conversation was peppered with references to the pope and his guidance to parishes. The cathedral has three groups undergoing the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults the official Catholic process for joining the Church.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FPYJKY4UTNEJFP67N3IQKSPENQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776525},"content":"“Anybody can come here and say, I would like to learn more about becoming a Catholic and we just assist. To be a Catholic or to be a Christian in this country is also God’s calling. We just try to assist to make the seed of faith, the seed of belief, grow toward maturity,” Fr Zhu said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UKQPBXY64VC7JB4AZUPG62I55Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776526},"content":"The Chinese Communist Party is officially atheist, forbidding its 99 million members from practising religion and the early years of the People’s Republic of China saw the exile of foreign missionaries and the arrest of priests and bishops. After the foundation of the CCPA in 1957, Pope Pius XXII said anyone who took part in the consecration of bishops without the Vatican’s approval would be excommunicated.","type":"text"},{"_id":"47YND2JOTVCL3DQZKMLTKQLKV4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776528},"content":"Chinese Catholics who remained loyal to Rome formed the underground church but after 1966 the Cultural Revolution saw the systematic suppression and destruction of all religion.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7V4RTIJZOBG3PEPWTPKIJMZNKE","additional_properties":{"_id":"3SXDTL2NMZAT3LU4PUZU6YDTII"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"GIOWHPNAM5D2LOCSLS6UFPEEEA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776529},"content":"Deng Xiaoping’s liberalisation brought a lighter touch to the regulation of religion and from 1981 Catholics were no longer obliged to pledge independence from the Pope and the Holy See. Restrictions tightened again in 1994 when all places of worship had to be registered with the government, opening the way for the arrest and prosecution of priests and bishops in the underground church for violating the regulation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7NCDJ4RNZBBERL7NVP7GZIKIT4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776530},"content":"Meanwhile, bishops consecrated in the patriotic church without papal approval were not recognised by the Holy See while bishops in the underground church were seen by the Chinese authorities as illegitimate. The 2018 Provisional Agreement on the Appointment of Bishops, the text of which has never been published, was designed to regularise the status of bishops with an agreed system for approving them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IZ3KTMGGBFGFDHEKBHXQ7WYSDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776531},"content":"This meant that bishops would be nominated by the Chinese authorities but the Vatican would have a veto over their appointment. Pope Francis immediately readmitted to “full, ecclesial communion” eight bishops from the patriotic church who had been appointed without Vatican approval and some bishops from the underground church were recognised by the Chinese authorities.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NZASRTKEERCU5NPCYDCEBRXJQA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776532},"content":"Ten bishops have been appointed under the new system since 2018 and the Vatican has yet to object formally to anyone nominated by the Chinese authorities. After the agreement’s renewal last year, the Pope said “the results are positive, and we are working with goodwill”, adding that he was pleased with the Vatican’s dialogue with China.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G4RHXTAXTBBKZOURRLQ64PB43A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776533},"content":"Sergio Ticozzi is a Hong Kong-based Italian priest and an expert on the church in China whose books include China and the Catholic Church: Through Mutual Eyes. He believes the agreement is a very positive and effective channel for communication and dialogue, if both parties have a clear mutual understanding of what they are talking about but that China and the Vatican have different understandings of the terms at the heart of the agreement: bishops and appointment.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2IPJ52J2FNAN7HC7MJ52HISSVE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776535},"content":"“For the Chinese authorities bishops are considered just public state officials, to be ‘democratically’ elected, while for the Vatican, they should be religious heads of a diocese or local church with a ‘sacred’ or divine authority. Consequently, the choice of the episcopal candidates by Chinese authorities is based mainly upon being a politically reliable person and obedient to the government/party, while for the Vatican they should have moral, doctrinal and pastoral qualifications,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7RLHHOOKBVHMPGEAHZD22BXUXY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776536},"content":"“As far as the ‘appointment’ is concerned, the Vatican understands it as the handing down to the candidate of God’s authority upon a diocese, but for the Chinese side it simply means Vatican’s ‘agreement or approval’ of the elected candidate.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KFAGOKSNNRARFFTAWP2NZMQVKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776537},"content":"Both the official church of the majority of Chinese Catholics and the underground church are in full communion with Rome and the agreement’s supporters hope that it will help to bring the two communities together. The Holy See has told priests in the underground church that they should not be forced to register with the Chinese authorities but Fr Ticozzi says that they are under great pressure to do so.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6NSIP7X2JNATZIGLJZJRFHLYPA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776538},"content":"“The Chinese authorities want clearly to eliminate this section of the church, and exploit the ambiguous and silent attitude of the Vatican to achieve their objective. They openly make use of the Sino-Vatican agreement for this purpose: they do not show great concern about providing bishops for the more than 30 vacant dioceses, but prefer to propose their own episcopal candidate for dioceses which already have unofficial bishops, in order to force the Vatican to order the latter to accept the government solution, which can be rather unjust,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R5VDYUP65FEZLJMVAD2BDJW2EA","additional_properties":{"_id":"HRUGBYNRA5FSLP55L42NUGQENY"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"LFUOAULYJBEA5ASIKF6GQV6KPE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776539},"content":"The Vatican is one of only a handful of states in the world that have diplomatic relations with Taiwan rather than with the People’s Republic of China and Beijing would like to change that. Some in the Vatican see the establishment of diplomatic relations with Beijing as a desirable next step in the process of normalisation of which the 2018 agreement was a part.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5ES47U7K7FCGNM6V3V2GN6T6GY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776540},"content":"Fr Ticozzi is pessimistic about the future of the church in China, noting a dimming of religious fervour among younger generations and a lack of spiritual guidance from above.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6NO6W6DYNNEXPJIE4QWT5E2TXU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776541},"content":"“The official emphasis will be on formal appearances, on external show of ceremonies, on the political interpretation and role of the clergy, since bishops and communities are required first to obey the government’s orders,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FWHCXT54IVEKHKABILFW6GQFGY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776542},"content":"“The official reports speak about various religious celebrations, construction of new churches, ordination of new priests and religious profession of new nuns, spiritual retreats and pilgrimages, religious symposia and study meetings. Several priests and sisters are truly very committed. But, the number of baptisms of adults is not high, bishops are kept busy by the authorities in political meetings, tours and banquets, lay people often are left by themselves without a solid catechesis and spiritual formation.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"RWNNTBCTFFBTJIYBSDJCGEN4M4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776543},"content":"Cindy Yik-Yi Chu, a historian at Hong Kong Baptist University and the author of a number of books on the Catholic Church in modern China, is more upbeat. She believes the fact that there are no longer any illicit bishops in the Chinese church is a big step forward that will enable more dialogue.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H2QHFX45PFGERHUH4BDQFWGWEU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776544},"content":"“It’s very slow. But I think the Pope wants it very much and wants to have dialogue. Even before he became pope he wanted to have dialogue with the Chinese church,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PKHNGJHJAVDCRJQWUJ7VHLADWI","additional_properties":{"_id":"QZKAIPCSE5DEZGSEHVADSTIHKQ"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"TVBQ4IXIHBEGNJ3P2Z3VWPQ5P4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776545},"content":"“I think that he was interested in working with the Chinese people because it’s a large population and there had be so many conflicts along the way. I think that’s the reason. It’s not something diplomatic or something like that. I think it’s just out of sincerity.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"XRDLR4LAFNEVRKJJZS7KRKIXFI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776546},"content":"Prof Chu acknowledges the sense of being abandoned felt by some in the underground church but argues that, since the pope still accepts them as Catholics, they have not been forgotten. And she rejects the argument that the church should not engage with the Communist Party.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UWYNIP4M7BAATAIIXIMATPEJ3M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776547},"content":"“Should we just continue to hate them? That doesn’t do any good for the people,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z7E2G55YINARBDV3XKEWYLOGNU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776548},"content":"Back in the North Cathedral, Fr Zhu was feeling optimistic too, noting that the convent has six new novices this year and that vocations for the priesthood are increasing steadily. When he returned from the Philippines in 2014, he was one of only a handful of priests in the diocese but now there are 91 and he says the change is visible.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2LLFURYD4ZBUPJP4KCHPJYXK2M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776549},"content":"“Every year, we get around two priests in the diocese of Beijing. An increase of two priests per year, that’s pretty good,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JBOXH7CFLZDDDE5PDD43VPN36U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776550},"content":"“I think there are some good signs. 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I’ll use their call signs, because the names of enlisted men are not supposed to appear in newspapers. Frosty, Hrynia and Yakut are my brothers-in-arms from another platoon. Their harrowing escape under fire from beneath a collapsed building on the front line was the most important thing that happened to my company in March.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XYP5ONRWHNAUBECMAATPCVDOAU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980425},"content":"Frosty’s cold demeanour earned him his nom de guerre. Hrynia is a diminutive of George, and Yakut is named after Yakutia, far-eastern Russia, because his eyes are slightly slanted like those of the Mongols who once ruled over <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/ukraine-war/\" target=\"_self\">Ukraine</a> and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/russia/\" target=\"_self\">Russia</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MVZ5R5G5YRBQ7G5SGJMDEXEUEM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980426},"content":"Their infantry squad were sheltering in the basement of a house in the ruined frontline village where my friend Denys was killed in early February. Another soldier was killed when the vehicle sent to retrieve Denys’s body was ambushed. The Russians bombed the house, and it collapsed on top of them. The last time I wrote, we were talking to them over walkie-talkies. Skilful drone pilots dropped food and water to them through a small hole at night. The hole was at most 30cm wide, not big enough for a soldier wearing a helmet and flak jacket to climb through.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3M5ZO6D3RBDBJGDOEVJDLEJ6AQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980427},"content":"Communications were sporadic, so we planned their escape in advance. Half the crossroads village is held by the Russians. Ukrainian infantry hold the other half. The Russians are trying to break through, so they can attack Slovyansk, a few dozen kilometres away. There is only one civilian left, an old man who moves between two or three houses, like the characters in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/writer-andrey-kurkov-tells-ukraine-s-story-it-s-my-duty-this-is-my-front-line-1.4822617\" target=\"_self\">Andrey Kurkov’s Donetsk novel, Grey Bees</a>. I can’t tell how old he is, because he is wrapped up against the cold, but I know he works for the Russians because I watch him on the drone feed, taking food to enemy soldiers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MVQGJ5XDAFDWJODLGLV5LKAIKE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980428},"content":"We managed to drop small, folding infantry shovels through the hole leading into the basement. Our men survived underground for a month, until mid-March, in terrible conditions. It reminded me of miners who spent months underground in Chile when I was a teenager, except that the soldiers were under near constant artillery and aerial bombardment. It was impossible for us to rescue them, so they had to dig themselves out.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ICNPFHDLYFC55FV4SKSHFMV3R4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980429},"content":"There are more than 100 people in our company, and all of us felt very nervous. We hide our emotions, but you were always in a state, like there’s a rock inside you. You don’t sleep well. You keep looking at your messages. The suspense was exhausting.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G572D6IORNBOLKOQM2XJMKRKSY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980430},"type":"image"},{"_id":"EF45BL4HLJD3TOBHBGU2K2ESG4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980431},"content":"They climbed out in mid-March, just before midnight. We had stopped communicating because we didn’t want to alert the Russians. But Russian night vision drones saw them and dropped gas cannisters. We know now that they killed Denys with Novichok, the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/chemical-weapons-body-confirms-uk-findings-on-skripals-attack-1.3458706\" target=\"_self\">nerve agent that was used against the Skripals in the UK in 2018</a>, and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/nerve-agent-used-to-poison-navalny-found-in-siberia-hotel-room-tests-show-1.4357520\" target=\"_self\">against Alexei Navalny in 2020</a>. It was Novichok they dropped on our infantry squad as they fled. If they hadn’t been in the open and wearing chemical masks, it would have killed them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OWWEDCZWXRCRJP7WGFJXY66KSU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980432},"content":"They had to walk five kilometres on mined roads to the pre-arranged evacuation point. When they finally called to say they were out, the sense of relief was enormous. It wasn’t like the movies, with everyone hugging and crying, because we were each in our separate positions, watching the whole situation, and we continued working. Someone dispatched a car filled with medics, and we had to make sure it wasn’t attacked. I was watching the Russian lines in case they tried to take advantage of the rescue to break out. Concentrated as I was on my work, I felt overjoyed that none of my comrades were killed and no one lost arms or legs, which is always the danger with minefields.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KR5G66C4CVHSRPKZYQZQHGYFQE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980433},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"LU6G2IC4HBDTJC4657RVUYRUVM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980434},"content":"When the car finally reached the infantry soldiers, they were in terrible shape, shell-shocked and suffering from chemical poisoning. They were taken straight to the military hospital in Dnipro, so we haven’t seen them yet. Dnipro is far behind the front line but nowhere is safe. Just last night, the Russians killed four people in Dnipro with attack drones. Frosty, Hrynia, Yakut and their comrades are undergoing treatment and rehabilitation. They’ll be given time off with their families. I only hope they won’t suffer permanent damage from the nerve gas.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZMNWQM2H45FZJJPBH364VHQWXA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980435},"content":"‘Denys was skinny and muscular, with fair hair and blue-grey eyes. He was killed near Donetsk in February’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"QD5DMAMATRBTPNQHLK7GORYTNA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980436},"content":"I write from my mother Tamara’s apartment in the suburbs of Kyiv. When I arrived home, I could tell she was on the verge of crying. She hadn’t seen me since last August, but she didn’t cry because she knows I hate that. I’ll let her cry when I take the train back to Donetsk.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3KXLMLTF3JCADORRWSHZ2NGVHY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980437},"content":"I’d asked Tamara to book me an appointment with the hairdresser on my first day home. I had my blue hair dyed back to my natural dark brown. That night, I went to the theatre to see Medealand, a play based on Euripides’s tragedy, about the way women are underestimated everywhere in the world.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VXPQGAPVVNAPPHX77E34VKYGOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980438},"type":"image"},{"_id":"FUG2JZCO2ZHKPKK6TGVBUPH24U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980439},"content":"The director of the play is my friend Katya, who was a student activist with me in the early 2010s. When we demonstrated on the Maidan in the winter of 2013/2014, Katya was the head of our woman squad and her husband, Mykhailo, was the commander of the 16th regiment of the Euromaidan self-defence force. To think we wore cyclists’ helmets and carried plywood shields then! The Russians are far more lethal than <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/ukraine-s-fugitive-ex-president-viktor-yanukovich-convicted-of-treason-1.3769670\" target=\"_self\">Victor Yanukovych</a>’s riot police. Remembering events of 11 years ago, I measure the immense distance we have travelled.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IADZZYYKPBGPTPEEUXNE24DA5U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980440},"content":"The following evening, I attended the presentation of a book about Ukrainian authors describing their writing techniques. The male moderator and the woman author were in my class at Kyiv-Mohyla, Ukraine’s most prestigious university. It made me dream about the books I’d like to write, if the war ever ends.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JYUFPEDMSVB6RGUDMGRXDV6I3I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980441},"content":"On the third day, I met with a production team who invited me to work as an unpaid consultant on a television series about the army.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R2YW2UTDHZDYLPXAEQHQUA65DA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980442},"type":"image"},{"_id":"L4X2VHAAR5CAFPOSMCACUO34X4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980443},"content":"Hairdressers, theatre, bookshops, television ... On the front line, you could forget such things exist. I tried to pack as much normal life as I could into my five days’ leave.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VCVI4ZVPIFBLHFVA6FAHKLFYLQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980444},"content":"Back in Donetsk, I just purchased our first four fibre-optic drones for my platoon, the Hellish Hornets, thanks to a generous donor in Paris who sent us €3,500. They’re manufactured in Ukraine and are connected to the drone pilot by a very thin fibre-optic thread which transmits the image. This means the Russians cannot jam them, because there is no electromagnetic signal. I used to give our drones names, but I don’t do it with those destined for kamikaze missions, because there’s no point getting attached to them! Fibre-optic drones have only been around a few months. The Russians got them first and they have more than we do.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UMLKT6DGQZCUZGAZHYULESJ5NU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980445},"content":"After more than a month of “peace negotiations”, I can’t say we are any closer to peace than before. There were some truly scandalous moments in the Oval Office at the end of February. I of course support <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/volodymyr-zelenskiy/\" target=\"_self\">Zelenskiy</a>, but I couldn’t help thinking Ukraine would face the consequences and it would not be pleasant.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PQJ4XGFQ6JERNKTXTK7SXIAKMU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980446},"content":"Funnily enough, the thing that irritated me most was the snide way Trump and the Maga journalist Brian Green <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/02/28/trump-accuses-zelenskiy-of-lacking-gratitude-and-gambling-with-world-war-three/\" target=\"_self\">mocked Zelenskiy</a> for not wearing a suit. The US always presents itself as open-minded and tolerant, as a country that doesn’t judge on appearance. It seemed hypocritical and petty.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TFCSCXLATRFRFBNW6MPASCJ5CQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980447},"content":"I saw the interview where Steve Witkoff, Trump’s negotiator, says that eastern Ukraine should be given to Russia because its inhabitants speak Russian. An American in Texas posted a video saying 70 per cent of his town speak Spanish, so why don’t we give it to Mexico?","type":"text"},{"_id":"MZ65TYALJRFB7DGPIB4YYY2HSE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980448},"content":"Apparently, the Americans have rewritten the minerals agreement that Zelenskiy had agreed to sign in February, and the new version is even more predatory. It seems like we are being used because we are at a disadvantage.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LX7SV4QNZFELXL6BBXRPIJPMLM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980449},"content":"I don’t think the war will end, but it will stop for a while. After every announcement about a ceasefire, Putin steps up the shelling and bombing. It’s his way of saying he doesn’t want to end the war. He keeps piling on new conditions. I think Putin is testing Trump, to see how far he can go and how many advantages he can get.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J5SYBSI6F5BBNLV7KKCTHT6UUI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980450},"content":"Kremlin says it’s working on Ukraine peace after Trump says he is angry with Putin","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"ATD4UGIE4FDX7O7QO3D2KG2KEA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980451},"content":"On March 30th, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/30/trump-pd-off-at-putin-threatens-tariffs-on-russian-oil-if-moscow-blocks-ukraine-deal/\" target=\"_self\">Trump said he was “getting very angry” with Putin</a> and threatened to impose tariffs on countries who buy Russian oil, like China and India.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P6LTHZ44VVDNZOR76BDZDHRXDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980452},"content":"Within hours, Trump threatened Zelenskiy with “big, big problems” if he doesn’t sign the minerals deal. He talked about his “good relationship” with Putin, saying, “the anger dissipates quickly if he does the right thing”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5RBQMJM2IFCX5OWNISXFOMUPLM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980453},"content":"I tell myself that the Trump administration will not last forever. Trump cannot destroy everything the US has built up over centuries. I remain optimistic. There are still a lot of scenarios possible.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7VRLACRZKNBTRPGMCC6XYILJCI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980454},"content":"<i>How Good It Is I Have No Fear of Dying: Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko’s Fight for Ukraine by Lara Marlowe is published by Head of Zeus.</i>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Lt Yulia Mykytenko and Lara Marlowe"}]},"description":{"basic":"Women are underestimated everywhere in the world. 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Tuxedoed and relaxed, Biden had shaken off the haunted, vacant expressions that defined his final months in office.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HAHVXFCE6FFKXLFNH37ZKWBVPU","additional_properties":{},"content":"But still, the secrets and the tattletale whispers will not stop. Two new books on last year’s unprecedented presidential election share one word in their respective titles: “wildest”. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"QBXV52Y67BBX7I4WSARYZY37VQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Much of the drama of that story inevitably revolves around the mad and macabre three weeks starting with Biden’s jaw-dropping debate performance in Atlanta and his decision, after a soul-searching weekend of warm, spitting rain at his Rehoboth Beach summer home, to exit the race. 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The hot gossip comes from inside sources rather than direct interviews with the key protagonists: that Nancy Pelosi tried to dissuade Biden from taking Trump on in a direct debate; that the president himself was champing at the bit, both because he believed he could best Trump and because, even then, the data was showing an alarming drop in his public support and that he needed to make a dramatic statement.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UKIVA3NZZ5C23HSJLLYPDTWUYE","additional_properties":{},"content":"He did that in Atlanta, but in the most catastrophic way possible. One of the most damning passages in Chris Whipple’s book, Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History, chronicles the days leading to that CNN debate, as told by Ron Klain, the former adviser who returned last summer to help him prepare. Halfway through a session in the presidential cabin in Aspen Lodge, Biden took a break, went outside and lay on a pool lounger and instantly fell asleep through pure exhaustion.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S43UUKUGZNFFVGHT7DRZO5T66Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We sat around the table,” Klain recalls in the book. ‘[Biden] had answers on cards, and he was just extremely exhausted. And I was struck by how out of touch with American politics he was. He was just very, very focused on his interactions with Nato leaders.‘”","type":"text"},{"_id":"7JS7YWQD7NEIZKWBMOTGCQ4UZI","additional_properties":{},"content":"It was always Biden’s contention that his on-screen vacuity was indeed attributable to exhaustion and a cold. He had been travelling intensively in Europe and then appeared in Los Angeles for the fundraiser during which George Clooney first became concerned that Biden no longer possessed the vitality required to continue, leading to his infamous New York Times opinion piece. 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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt mused in the briefing room about the subject. “I think journalists in this room should be asking about whether or not the former president of the United States, whom I think we can finally agree was cognitively impaired, as evidenced by his disastrous debate performance ... did the president even know about these pardons?” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"UQPEJJTW7BEAFLN4NFQELOJLPI","additional_properties":{},"content":"A year ago, her predecessor, Karine Jean-Pierre, faced almost weekly inquisitions about the state of her president’s mental acuity. 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It might be more sensible for him to just let sleeping dogs lie and trust time and the future biographers to evaluate his 50-year legacy rather than his one-night nightmare. “A real man of integrity,” Washington said after the show.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EQUEGRRYQNHGHBKJNGEKFJRXAI","additional_properties":{},"content":"There’s that line Biden, in the darkness of the theatre, would have heard Washington deliver as Othello: “Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it without a prompter.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"OGPZOLDXVJCU3EJUY3OLL2CJIE","additional_properties":{},"content":"He didn’t, and he will never stop paying the price.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Keith Duggan"}},"name":"Keith Duggan"}]},"description":{"basic":"With the former president said to be working on a memoir, two new books offer damning details of the fragmentation of faith in him before last November’s US 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When the commission was negotiating with the UK in its Berlaymont headquarters in Brussels, an Irish delegation was often holed up in a room two or three doors down the hall, to allow EU officials to pop in to get quick feedback mid-discussion.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5WCLTRDTCHIGEVBC5MMV56OYT4","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"DKXXBR2GGRA2TELUVMU5AMSTRU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Harris has been in regular contact with European trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič, who is taking point on tariffs. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"NFOPMCRMOBGWRI5XEFHKBF3PIE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Harris and the Slovakian politician have spoken on the phone several times in the last fortnight. However, Dublin is just one of 27 capitals that Sefcovic has to try to keep happy and up-to-date. 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Since then, each continued supporting the democratic cause.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QHSZ7G54YND3HFBDN6FB7MVTVA","additional_properties":{},"content":"For Dr Min (32), that meant fleeing to the jungle to offer battlefield triage to rebel forces who were fighting the army. But when the earthquake last week devastated his home city, Mandalay, he knew he had to cross combat zones to check on his family and help his friend group of doctors again.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B3N5GOWMWRC57J2DSRJG3KH7MA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I prayed the whole way back,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7STNIF2WNJHK7O3YCYLYZMZ7QI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Min returned in time to watch his four friends’ bodies being pulled from the rubble of a 12-story apartment block, the stench of mass death simmering in the tropical heat.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M2PKSFYIZVFULBIJEQZTOWHGAI","additional_properties":{},"content":"It’s a measure of Myanmar’s collapse that the generals have come to see healthcare providers as enemies of the state. The junta has closed at least seven private hospitals in Mandalay, the country’s second-largest city, that were seen as sympathetic to the resistance. It has jailed doctors and nurses.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WHYCO67EFEU4BUFG4BKNY2K4WE","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"D4RTXBFXHVGEDGKTVVENYJEFLQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Nevertheless, Min joined a group of medical volunteers and rushed to the stricken city. Residents were clawing through the debris with bare hands, spurred by the cries and then the whispers of the trapped. Eventually, the sounds ceased. One day, a mother and her four-month-old daughter were pulled out alive. Min administered first aid. The baby died.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SRSJUSOBQJF3FOENUYYAVAEBLA","additional_properties":{},"content":"At the 12-story apartment block, there were only bodies, Min said, including the four friends who had joined him in defying the coup.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NGCQBO2KOFD37C2IO27M2OP3KI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“It was heartbreaking to see them on stretchers, not breathing,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HPHOQKGHUZHN7K6KR5NH3PBI7A","additional_properties":{},"content":"Before the coup, Min, who is being identified by part of his name for his security, led a normal life. His girlfriend was a nurse. He drove a Honda hatchback and took holidays at a beach in Thailand. Influenced by his father, a teacher who listened secretly to BBC Radio during an earlier era of military rule, Min supported the democratic opposition, which won elections in 2015 and 2020.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4ZOLG77WRRDINN7L5TRUZVPZGQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I was really happy back then,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AOHOKDQXKZHH5JA3MD33LK7RGI","additional_properties":{},"content":"In February 2021, the military jailed Myanmar’s elected leaders. Min joined peaceful protests that sent hundreds of thousands of people into the streets. The junta responded by unleashing snipers. The public hospital Min worked for refused to send ambulances to collect the casualties. So he joined a civil disobedience movement, which saw bin collectors, auditors and doctors alike boycotting the new military regime.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AXU72DNLNRHMBH3CVFNHCUIBBE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Min and his friends began treating civilians targeted by the junta. There were many single gunshot wounds, all to the head, some in children, he said. Once, Min helped an old woman into a private ambulance with flashing lights, only for soldiers to strafe the van with gunfire.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NPG6ZQWT7RCMVNB6LPUHHX2FGQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"After the protests, Min escaped to a jungle where professionals like him – lawyers, accountants, doctors – formed an armed struggle against the junta. He learned how to sleep with the noise of night insects and how to dig a latrine. The unit started with 80 soldiers. It has lost about 20 on the battlefield.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J7BTY3PTLJDGTNNSTYP3WQDV7Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"When the earthquake struck, rebel groups had been advancing against the military, which has fortified the big cities, Mandalay included. Despite pleading for international assistance with the quake damage, the junta has siphoned off supplies to the capital, Naypyitaw, and set up roadblocks to prevent volunteers from entering towns and more remote areas.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IHB72DDPUNGORMCP7LE6W7HULE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The military junta is once again using a humanitarian crisis to assert its authority at the cost of thousands of lives,” said Charles Santiago, the co-chair of a Southeast Asian collective of lawmakers dedicated to human rights.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OQXKM65EHBFOFKB55X5TQIKIAU","additional_properties":{},"content":"There is little chance that anyone is still alive in the wreckage of Mandalay, although one man was rescued after five days. Disease now threatens. Unnerved by aftershocks and unable to return to their destroyed homes, residents are sleeping where they can, in the shadow of the city’s tiered palace or in open fields. The junta’s soldiers occasionally kick them out, forcing them to find new shelter. Food and water are running low.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UF2ZNYH2CVHCLHB7ATS7O6OEMQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The junta cares more about shutting down hospitals and blocking doctors than saving lives after the earthquake,” Min said. “They are not acting like humans.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3TJ555B25JAFJEVIYR5IIZXE3A","additional_properties":{},"content":"After watching more bodies emerge from the rubble, Min took a break. There were, he feared, no more lives to save.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GXUJZ2OC3FFVLPA3P4WFMT6MNM","additional_properties":{},"content":"He passed buildings listing at strange angles. He avoided the growing piles of rubbish, walking down a familiar lane toward his family home.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2UXANE4RGNEC5LWPZR4UHB6O6U","additional_properties":{},"content":"It was still standing. His family spilled out to greet him. Everyone was alive. 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Now there might be even more reason to do that,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5OIIZSO5CJBZZJOYOHLJO6MIFU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714048977},"content":"Chris Lambe, originally from Leixlip, Co Kildare, is a climate consultant who has been based in the US for several years. “From a consumption perspective, the tariffs don’t bother me,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PR4ILUSP7FGNXFNMAJ5M2XPDLI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714048978},"type":"image"},{"_id":"4E5MFGI3PFBYRGXQ2VE4OTNVCU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714048979},"content":"“There’s a reasonable American alternative for most things, the exception maybe being wine. What bothers me is this is a manufactured crisis. Completely unnecessary, but to what end? With Trump, you always have to try to guess the endgame. 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People will “pay anything to have something from home”, she says. “They don’t really care what price it is so long as they’re getting it.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"DQN7R2UYTBCKZKKXDFJLJMOINY","additional_properties":{},"content":"At the Eire Pub across the street, where they serve Guinness and a wide variety of Irish whiskeys, Co Kerry native John Curran, and a bartender at the establishment for more than a decade, is not too worried either. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"4FXRYDJYS5A5FBHFXDYGH5H7WI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I don’t think it’s going to last long,” says Curran of the newly imposed tariffs. “I think this is all going to come out in the wash.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"N7XJSMYALFGCRACS7B7HJZPTSI","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"FILHPPR7BZBRXHPMUVJJ7YRE7E","additional_properties":{},"content":"At Casali’s Market next door, manager Mohammed Zaman says business is already bad. 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However, he said the State now needs to focus on factors that we can control, including improving our competitiveness and investing in infrastructure”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CHDUU6AHIVGFRGSMMMW27FSSVU","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"VQTOR4QUMRAH7H4ZN6BVDQXZWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863276},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743661362935},"id":"timestamp-70633","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"7QJYA4ZQSFHDLGXQI7BOYSHW6A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331138},"content":"What we are expecting this morning","type":"header"},{"_id":"DMW2ZWBNKJH7FJ2NZ2QAZBTWVU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863278},"content":"Tánaiste Simon Harris will be speaking at around 7.30am giving his first detailed reaction to the tariffs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4BMY6UTZKJDL7HREGKZKDXRUOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863279},"content":"The European Commission is expected to also set out this morning the process by which the EU will respond to the tariffs, and begin to scope out the retaliatory measures that will be taken.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BGMQKKBRPZDNFF5MZ3NTCZFHNA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863280},"content":"Already most of Mr Trump’s cabinet has been out (mainly on Fox News) giving details of measures and future measures. Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary, has been chiding the EU over the trade barriers on US agricultural products.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PVJ45SGH4REH7NAWJC7ZJ2V66I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863281},"content":"He has come out with this outlandish statement.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZCSTPXMY4ZG45I2HW5AA4FZHMY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331143},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"KBETXD6IIZB2TGXEWFXVFNSZMA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863284},"content":"Two words come to mind. Hormones. Chlorinated.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4N5ZTTGWJBFDTLXD66ULT7JVXI","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"VDNRVNIJ2VH6NM6I3YDD7F32TE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863287},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743661955704},"id":"timestamp-55961","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"SQHU23XIL5EQJG2XILLQVH3CCM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331147},"content":"Here’s how The Irish Times has covered the overnight news.","type":"header"},{"_id":"YTKF4TWZ4BEE7ERK3DJNGGZKIY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863289},"content":"The <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/04/03/trump-promises-new-dawn-for-us-economy-as-eu-says-it-is-prepared-to-respond-with-countermeasures/\" target=\"_self\">main story</a> by Pat Leahy this morning focuses on the statement by <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/ursula-von-der-leyen/\">Ursula von der Leyen</a> that the EU is prepared to respond with countermeasures if talks to Washington fail.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XTIDTQ43MND2RCYGMB6W4VLPQI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863290},"content":"While the 20 per cent tariff will be broadly applied to Irish exports, there does seem to be a reprieve for the significant pharma sector there.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RE5YM3XNEJBCZFT5AYO67ZMNCA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863291},"content":"“Material released by the White House last night suggested that pharmaceuticals may not be covered by the so-called “reciprocal tariffs”, which would be a considerable relief to Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CLQM2QVAFFB4BPFP5PI3MSXSDY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863292},"content":"“Mr Trump has previously said the pharma sector could be subjected to specific, dedicated tariffs, though there was no mention of this in his speech.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"P3FY33GDMJH3LLS5YGBQHKCUCM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863293},"content":"Cliff Taylor’s <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/04/02/trumps-tariffs-what-do-they-mean-for-ireland/?\" target=\"_self\">analysis does not mince its words</a>. “It will take some time to play out. But there is no doubt that the sweeping tariffs announced on Wednesday evening in the White House pose a significant economic threat to this State and particularly to investment, jobs and tax revenues.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3HVB25647NEYBANOI7TJVC26WU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863294},"content":"He also teases out the implications the disparity between the tariffs imposed on Ireland and those levied on the UK (20 per cent versus 10 per cent) will have on the Windsor Framework.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F7GEH4CDPRBKLG52TQUR6FTUNU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863295},"content":"US correspondent Keith Duggan has <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/04/03/donald-trump-us-tariffs-liberation-day/\" target=\"_self\">a wonderful article evoking the showmanship of Trump</a> but also saying his instincts deserted him. He particularly honed in on the “sad little chart” held up by Howard Lutnick for all the class to see.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6NDEHMLSYRA37KJZNWTPKSX6FQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863296},"content":"Finally, the political digest (published soon) will look at how an economic announcement was made to look like an amateur drama group’s production of the ‘The Greatest Showman’.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EGXCGBQH25EZHEJR2U2OYLWQEU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863297},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743662607677},"id":"timestamp-4754","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"DMRFNG3UXBFRJAQEFVIK25G3BE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331157},"content":"Ibec’s Danny McCoy highlights implications which tariff disparity with UK will have for Windsor Framework and for Northern Ireland","type":"header"},{"_id":"EWK6I6LJA5CIZGF342E2Q7AIWE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863300},"content":"<i>Vivienne Clarke writes: </i>Danny McCoy of Ibec has warned that Trump’s tariffs could have implications for the Windsor Framework.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B4VRJ4LO3BDZZJMMB5WBGHJ75U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863301},"content":"“I think that one thing we have to really see though is the fact that the UK have a 10 per cent tariff and the EU 20 per cent. This has implications for the Windsor Framework and for the no border on the island of Ireland,” told RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland","type":"text"},{"_id":"HDA5WADU4NDTBMFMJML5RNICWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863302},"content":"“I think this is a very serious issue. And it’s not just what Trump has done, it’s how we retaliate back. If the UK do nothing and the EU come with a 20 per cent tariff, that’ll make it even more complicated.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"UWB5RXM52VEYLPKHR4YFJXKJ7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863303},"content":"When asked what he wanted the Government to do in response to the tariffs, Mr McCoy said: “We’ve been here before with Covid and with Brexit and so some of the measures that we know is state supports are going to be required for those whose demand will go down quite dramatically as a result of these price movements.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KXGDT5YTNNFGDPOUQFRVSP5R3Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863304},"content":"“Their workers may need to go on short-time working, we need to have the welfare payments to keep them attached to their employer, not to put them into unemployment. So these kind of shocks that we get, we thought we might get with Brexit, with ports being closed etc. We have the arsenal to do it, we’ll be talking to the Government in the next couple of hours and again tomorrow on many of those different forums. So I think the Government and business can work through this, I’d be calm enough on that front.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"WYMIG4MBYNH23FYFWEB4BLS4ZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863305},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743663246172},"id":"timestamp-7171","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"XYYZWG7PKVEOLCGGSZ2TI2WSUI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331164},"content":"The infamous Chart","type":"header"},{"_id":"N4GQKXBIRVFSTCIV5VBNTWW2WY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863308},"content":"So Mr Trump and his cabinet based the actual percentage level of tariff on individual countries on what the US perceived as the trade barriers imposed on it by those countries. Mr Trump said that the US would be reasonable and apply only half.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4F7N5LG7NFCKFLIO43UUMUONHU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863309},"content":"It seems that many of the countries that supply clothes and textiles to the US were hardest hit, some with extraordinarily punitive tariffs. They include Myanmar which is trying to respond to the catastrophic damage and huge death toll caused by last weekend’s earthquake.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7AA4B4XKUZDSFKIXXDMPEI35RY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863310},"content":"Vietnam was hit by 46 per cent; Cambodia by 49 per cent, Sri Lanka and Myanmar by 44 per cent, Madagascar by 47 per cent, and Laos by 48 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UJQNYDQORMGAPR3BDRLWJKSTTU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863311},"type":"image"},{"_id":"U4EMYMM3YFEKRCTDVZQXZTXVN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863312},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743663743274},"id":"timestamp-4382","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"3332R3JLRFBJRCL755T5PK7MFI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331170},"content":"Sinn Féin warns against any knee-jerk reaction","type":"header"},{"_id":"CG3673UWUJFGNEBPVZSN7HWKLM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863314},"content":"Vivienne Clarke reports: Sinn Féin’s finance spokesman Pearse Doherty has called for cool heads and a focus on Irish national interests.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DJFVAM5N3ZDCXEQN3DM43R6CCU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863315},"content":"There should not be a knee-jerk reaction, he told RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland. The Irish Government has a role to play here, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JKS3CZNBCBHTLH56ZZY6MXMEXM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863316},"content":"“EU counter measures could be as damaging, we need to be very careful. A tariff anywhere on the island of Ireland would not be good,” he said in response to the different tariff imposed on the UK.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ATEFKPOPNBEILFCBZ24MZQ7EX4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863317},"content":"“What we’re seeing very clearly is what all the economists have looked at, which is Donald Trump’s tariffs are going to be damaging for the Irish economy, for jobs, for the public finances, but the countermeasures will also be damaging if they are put in place by Europe. So they will push up prices for Irish consumers, they will risk more jobs in Ireland, and they will reduce the finances that we have in terms of tax take, in terms of the public finances.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5QAXBT2LTVG3FAA2FWWHWFGVIE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863318},"content":"“This has to be resolved and we need to look at the policy of de-escalation and the only reason you should counter our continent’s countermeasures is if you believe that it would bring the American administration to the table and allow for a de- escalation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KULADE6CTJCABCZWXKDJATZRMY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863319},"content":"“We have to have a clear eye at what is important. We need to focus on Irish national interest. Remember, while we do have influence in relation counter tariffs, we will not be able to dictate it. So we could have a situation where countermeasures from Europe could actually be as damaging as what Donald Trump has announced. So we have to be very very careful here and not knee-jerk into any situation in relation to this.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TQ2WUAOYJBAOZKQHZ4OJYM5WH4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863320},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743664099230},"id":"timestamp-89850","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"NRC4WNBNA5F67EE63EBLEFXFBY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331178},"content":"Political Digest","type":"header"},{"_id":"CMDDZBMYN5BDHNFRO4Y7BDNV5M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863322},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/04/03/ireland-on-alert-after-trump-imposes-tariffs-but-relieved-over-pharma-exclusion/\">The Inside Politics Digest</a> has been published and takes us through last night’s announcement and its implications.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TIBFZLKTN5BJJJAT3TI2QSMN4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863323},"content":"Like Keith Duggan’s piece, it also looks at Trump’s shabby showmanship.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QGAXNQ4ZPZH47EC6MT2MM2OGVI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331181},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"PAWXQ777URBDZIHNOJK2DRCXHE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863325},"content":"Read the entire digest <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/04/03/ireland-on-alert-after-trump-imposes-tariffs-but-relieved-over-pharma-exclusion/\" target=\"_self\">here</a> or in your inbox.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C7OZ7ZEJCKDC5TU3JWAR4QPN7A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863326},"type":"image"},{"_id":"65O4JK5PWRESFH6IE5WCFR4VWQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863327},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743664807411},"id":"timestamp-25848","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"E6M5NLR2H5AWBA5CVPQ2IPXOYM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331185},"content":"European Union response to US tariffs","type":"header"},{"_id":"VA2TGWSMW5CKJHG7MPBK4SFS7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863329},"content":"The EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen is now speaking live about how Europe will respond to the tariffs of 20 per cent tariff imposed by the Trump administration on exports to the US.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X724EKUXCBDM7CA6CNH6RYX5GQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863330},"content":"In a long statement she has been saying that the tariffs are a big blow and the “consequences will be dire for millions of people around the globe.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"SXUA23U7EZE2HCWTHX7CR62UYA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863331},"content":"She said that some of the countries that will be affected most are among the poorest countries.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7YHG56CKGFCD5PQ47K6K5E6YLY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863332},"content":"She has vowed that Europe will respond and will protect its interests and values.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AOHZZQOW7RFPPBEWMCZR7LXIJ4","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"CHTL4YIHIRAF7BLDATTXORET7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863335},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743665623640},"id":"timestamp-20678","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"OK5ILFUN7BFAXBTDLK66RX4HY4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331192},"content":"China promises to take ‘resolute countermeasures’.","type":"header"},{"_id":"LR5XHV257JEARPCDJRYT7K5ISY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863338},"content":"<i>Denis Staunton reports</i>: China vowed to respond to Donald Trump’s move to impose an extra tariff of 34 per cent on the country’s exports to the United States, yet stopped short of announcing retaliatory levies for now. “China firmly opposes the move and will take resolute countermeasures to safeguard its legitimate rights and interests,” the country’s commerce ministry said in a statement.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5O63JNITJ5EL7GWRX4OHTWNAPI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863339},"content":"Market analysts estimate the 34 per cent tariff announced on Wednesday brings the new effective tariff on Chinese goods entering the US as between 65 and 70 per cent. Notably, Trump also ordered the abolition from May 2 of an exemption on duties for packages valued below $800. That is likely to have impact the likes of Temu and Shein. The US is China’s biggest export market but its share has diminished in recent years as exports to southeast Asia and other parts of the Global South have grown.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GRIOJJ6WNRHY3BHVORQJJXKUBM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863340},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743665741670},"id":"timestamp-31208","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"EQZC7POQ5ZCD5GK4ETNFXW4C4Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331196},"content":"Michael O’Leary describes tariffs as “insane” and predicts a recession in the US.","type":"header"},{"_id":"HQ7HZRLZX5HBZL5XJU6MJWHC7Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863342},"content":"<i>Vivenne Clarke reports: </i>Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary has said that America has shot themselves in the foot the same as the UK did with Brexit.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CMK4EAVVNJFCBEH6MDHCMISOFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863343},"content":"“The sooner they get intelligent politicians back in power the better” he told Newstalk Breakfast.","type":"text"},{"_id":"23OLXFACNBENTI7JIPOJRQN4C4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863344},"content":"“I have little doubt that the idiotic tariffs are doomed to fail. But we shouldn’t underestimate Trump’s ability to move and change his mind. And I suspect there will be lots of changes in these tariffs in the coming days.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4SLKPCMSMZAITJPB5TLAEVMNUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863345},"content":"“We’re entering a period of huge uncertainty, we are entering a period where US consumers are going to be the victims of this insane tariff scheme. All we can do in Ireland and in Europe is continue to trade with each other.","type":"text"},{"_id":"77CRFLZGYBG2LHOYHOAZ75OS64","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863346},"content":"“I think it also puts pressure on the European Union and Ireland to be much more competitive. We can’t afford to be shooting ourselves in the foot with these kind of idiotic measures when Trump is doing such damage to the worldwide economy.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"I2XGTASERJG3TN55TUXFOO3NQI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863347},"content":"Mr O’Leary said it was inevitable that there would be reciprocal tariffs from the EU","type":"text"},{"_id":"B5YLO3WVQ5G4POGYKETIWG7R6A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863348},"content":"“Europe has to have some response. Europe has a big trade deficit in manufacturing. Europe will move closer together in terms of trade ties.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TAP5XBC7VNARFFIUG3YWLAMN64","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863349},"content":"Mr O’Leary also predicted that the tariffs would result in a recession in the USA.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VTWDDVCXUVH2HDGKDZ2HSMJUIU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863350},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743666345665},"id":"timestamp-78920","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"QJULETDMVBBB5DSOALCDKXJHMY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331206},"content":"Brush up on Your Leaving Certificate Calculus","type":"header"},{"_id":"3JZDKNGKONC7RFOEW3URWZOUXY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863353},"content":"A shock reacquaintance with Greek symbols as the US undersecretary for Trade released the formula used by the US to arrive at its tariffs. As Gavin Reilly, Virgin Media’s renaissance man notes, the starting point for the calculations is the trade deficit, not the actual tariff applied by those countries.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SQXAG66V7RHRBLGLGJ4LWF23TE","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"2KGX7U4IK5A7DKOP7E2VJZVLO4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863355},"content":"For a further discussion on the maths of it you can follow this Twitter discussion.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DP6BEDAZ7JAZZOIEBJHPHVSNXU","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"7G3HMVXR2RCENNNHOFQ4KE2NFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863357},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743666810016},"id":"timestamp-76034","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"CQFKDMXQRNBBLIRUSRB4TDMTMM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331212},"content":"Negotiations to ramp up between EU capitals and commission","type":"header"},{"_id":"TIIJBKEF25ERZC3AWS23QN2PLI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863359},"content":"Trump has put his cards on the table and now the European Union will have to decide how firmly to respond, <i>writes Europe correspondent Jack Power.</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"YSO6TB2SGBFR7CBPMMPCJUCJGM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863360},"content":"European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen this morning said there seemed to be “no order in the disorder” of Trump’s tariffs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PYXEVXZDJBGDNPJK5UL7TZIGLA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863361},"content":"The European Commission, the EU executive body that sets the bloc’s trade policy, had already been preparing to hit €26 billion worth of US goods with tariffs, in response to import taxes Trump previously levied on steel and aluminium last month.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YMO3L5RTRVBM5ACP2B74WUNZN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863362},"content":"What US products and industries will be targeted has been the subject of intense lobbying. Ireland has pushed back against plans to hit US bourbon with tariffs, for fears that would draw even higher tariffs on things like Irish whiskey in retribution. France has also raised concerns, to protect its exports of wine and champagne from steep tariffs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NRS2R2A5M5CTVOB25KOPABEDHY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863363},"content":"There is some talk in Brussels circles that this lobbying effort to remove bourbon from the products targeted in EU counter-tariffs has been successful. One source said EU states would likely vote on a final list of US products to hit next week.","type":"text"},{"_id":"STNUZF2BTZG4ZKMK2OQZ6LK3TU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863364},"content":"In response to Trump’s wide ranging 20 per cent tariffs announced yesterday, the commission will put together a further package of tariffs on US trade.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EOU3623G7BCEBMGTFTCFCVFSBA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863365},"content":"The tariffs on all EU imports did not include pharmaceutical exports, however import duties aimed at that sector are expected to follow at some point.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LDO3UWLIX5H2ZDAUAG7434DYHI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863366},"content":"Pharmaceuticals account for a huge portion of Ireland’s exports to the US. The Government will want to keep pharma trade out of the fray as long as possible. That will mean lobbying to make sure EU retaliatory tariffs do not hit US pharma exports. Ireland will have some friends here, Belgium, Denmark and others are likely to share the same view.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HGQDJ3ZMLFE4NLE4RQ6Y3CQEYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863367},"content":"Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Simon Harris will sit down with other EU trade ministers on Monday. The manner of the response to US tariffs will dominate the agenda.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YKQJPRZTIZA5VAG2AUVCTHMWHA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863368},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743667250008},"id":"timestamp-18270","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"626PQAQ6WNA4VDP3XMKGCYLGTA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331223},"content":"Tánaiste says working assumption is that US tariffs will be applied on pharmaceuticals","type":"header"},{"_id":"WCA72YD3DNENZHGUDYTB5QN5GA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863370},"content":"Tánaiste Simon Harris has said it is the Government’s “working assumption” there will be further US tariffs focused on pharmaceuticals.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KOVMED6ZPNH2RHCZEEPTV2ASFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863371},"content":"Speaking outside Government Buildings this morning, Mr Harris said that Mr Trump had to be taken at his work. Mr Trump had said he intended to impose tariffs on the EU, said Mr Harris, and has done that. He said the president has also vowed sectoral tariffs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KYTSIUWTBREC3HLGJMVKB2TP6A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863372},"content":"“He’s also been very clear that there’s a number of sectors that he wants to take specific measures in relation to. Steel and aluminium, he’s already done. The car industry he’s already done and he’s indicated semiconductors and lumber and pharma.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3567UMWO3VAINOEQD5DR2QLQRQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863373},"content":"“Therefore, my working assumption has to be that there will be further measures directed at pharma, or at least that that’s the intention of the US administration,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OSXNJHQERVFNTCYTPHJ7O6ZNDU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863374},"content":"Mr Harris said that 80 per cent produced by pharmaceutical companies in Ireland were not finished products. “They’re commodities that actually go back into US factories, create jobs for people to pay taxes there.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"T6C36BOQJVFY7BEJGJANMPUMJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863375},"content":"There is also a concern that part of the retaliatory measures being considered by the EU include tariffs on pharma.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WKRPA2PSABHEPGBBANS54HRNVY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863376},"content":"Mr Harris pointed out that a number of EU countries also have strong pharmaceutical presences, including Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BQX7QLJLHRD7RM3YQRFV4PFJPA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863377},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743667764905},"id":"timestamp-13311","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"LHZVTYVKFJFZJMSJB7CW7RDMRY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331232},"content":"Time for Europe to strengthen itself says McGuinness","type":"header"},{"_id":"YC23RPWQPFAOZABEDJG3WSCBPI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863379},"content":"Former EU Commissioner Mairead McGuinness has been speaking to RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, <i>write Vivienne Clarke.</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"UFG5DRRSDJAPVOE5ORVN7XQJAI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863380},"content":"She has said: “We are in a different world, but the order has been upended But we are capable of dealing with this. Notwithstanding the worry, you just have to be calm and measured in the worst of times and these are difficult times.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TJEEWHZM7JCHJPXYAZUWK74GP4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863381},"content":"“I think the EU is already using the time we have, both past and in the future, to avert anything that escalates to a global trade war.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6MFD64P26ZDVLBXT7O3I5CYCTM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863382},"content":"“This is a time for Europe. to realise the new world order and to strengthen ourselves so that we can face into this. And I think that’s what we’re likely to hear later on from the European Commission. But we don’t come to this from a vulnerable position. We are strong and we have to actually believe that and work towards resolving this hopefully through negotiation.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5STJBDYNMRFTJM4XCFZ4YD3TYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863383},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743668104106},"id":"timestamp-29020","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"2JJ5FH5PRFG3JNSXHMWENS2UKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863384},"content":"A brilliant illustration of the new North-South divide.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PK6IV5QZLJHH5GETBFRI33RKHA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863385},"content":"The 10 per cent difference in tariff between North and South is going to be problematic. This post on X from JP Campbell tells it all.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SHQIFI2IY5FH5N3VO337WLTREY","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"ZGI5HNLWERGGVODTSBFRCX66G4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863388},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743668961348},"id":"timestamp-31116","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"P53GY3VNZFAWRPFZAGZYFNO4FM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331242},"content":"Reaction from other European leaders","type":"header"},{"_id":"TSDWNEK67JF2XIWXTT3RMRU2GE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863390},"content":"Italian prime minister <b>Giorgia Meloni</b>, a close ally of Donald Trump, expressed strong criticism of the tariffs saying they were wrong.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7NRN5I247JHD33UYI27OV5HZXI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863391},"type":"image"},{"_id":"EHK3VCWJJJFJXN46PLJFTEMYUE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863392},"content":"“They are a measure that I consider to be wrong and not in the interests of either party.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y4SXG637U5FA5FAI47MHGYWCGM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863393},"content":"She said the focus now was on avoiding a trade war that would lead to the weakening of western economies.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QRD43RQSQBB2NKBMMHEB4KC6PQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863394},"content":"French president <b>Emmanuel Macron</b> has said he will convene a meeting later this afternoon of all the sectors in France that will be impacted by the tariffs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QDAXTUWXXFCHLO44LWJUM6Y64I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863395},"content":"The tariffs went against the principle of free enterprise that has been the foundation of western economies, said Swedish prime minister <b>Ulf Kristersson</b>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IBW3G56KOJC3DDH3RVD4HL34DM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863396},"content":"UK prime minister <b>Keir Starme</b>r said there would be an economic impact from the measures. He said his Government would react with “cool and calm heads”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"APYB2SYOS5FZREPTXUOA4PYHJA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863397},"content":"“Nobody wins in a trade war. That is not in our national interest,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IVICOW47ANCHFFIHYTRCUGKI3Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863398},"content":"Prime minister<b> Pedro Sánchez</b> said Spain remained committed to an open world but would take measures to protect its workers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HCOOFINI5FBRLLM5456F2YEIOA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863399},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743669996211},"id":"timestamp-46625","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"33YYIUDAHNC7FP4FY4EFT4KSLI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331253},"content":"Global trade landscape now changed, says Minister for Finance","type":"header"},{"_id":"5FWDIUV67RCG3NDHFVTGYFX2RQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863401},"content":"Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe has said that “the global economic landscape is changed” in the wake of the US tariffs, <i>Marie O’Halloran writes</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"BCRP6UVNYZDUPKIDNMPYYDFZB4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863402},"content":"Speaking in the Dáil he said his department and the ESRI will begin modelling the impact of the tariffs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KSYENZMGPJBD3FGRSFVHU5OT3I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863403},"content":"He said they would first engage with the EU, engage with companies in Ireland and, hopefully, begin negotiations with the US administration “to see if we can avoid the dark and more damaging scenarios coming to pass”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UMEINAKI5NEVLKXTE6T3APR7EY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863404},"content":"He was responding during finance questions to Sinn Féin spokesman Pearse Doherty and Social Democrats’ Cian O’Callaghan.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4LQ5E3K6PRF65GUCH7IDJWOSFY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863405},"content":"“I’ve been making the point that at the basis of what we know at the moment, we are moving into a scenario of lower growth and lower employment growth.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FZHECRK7C5DV5FMS2HIECWIKNQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863406},"content":"“But I’ve been equally clear, there are other scenarios that could affect us, which is why in the time ahead, what is critical is we look at how we can negotiate with the US to see if we can avoid the dark and more damaging scenarios coming to pass.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6I45MMNA75AVDP4H5ENUY7NKME","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863407},"content":"He said the measures put in place by Mr Trump “are ones that will not only affect the economy of the world, will have a significant effect on the economy of America as well”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PXCCY7LO65CVFJE3N5WKUFHOOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863408},"content":"President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen “has been very clear in outlining the fact that we want to negotiate and we want to see if we can find the scenario in which jobs are not further affected, in which incomes are not further affected”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B7ASSPAV3NGJHBE7K2QIHJDMCM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863409},"content":"Mr Donohoe said that the progress made on inflation had been “jeopardised”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TVCXIBR2XZCAJK36GJNNURDCXM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863410},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743670298517},"id":"timestamp-96223","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"AKZBRBZ4FNHFRAQ3AP3PV7SJ4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331264},"content":"Immediate retaliation would be a mistake, says Bertie Ahern","type":"header"},{"_id":"WJTJ2E4PYRBQDA2PA4QQSPHVKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863412},"content":"Former taoiseach Bertie Ahern has said he hoped the EU does not “jump into retaliation” over the US tariffs, <i>writes Vivienne Clarke.</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"BWUJNEYG5ZBATIGJB2PVW6JBZA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863413},"content":"“That would be a mistake,” he told Pat Kenny on Newstalk.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OKAGBR63KZANFICMIRO42W3JDM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863414},"content":"Mr Ahern said it appeared the US president Donald Trump “isn’t big into detail”, his approach was “almost laughable if it wasn’t so important.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"JUHID4KZRZBVHDH5OW6W6633AQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863415},"content":"The people behind the scenes apparently did not appreciate details either, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IIVTDT7NLFCKPEYZMAEQWV5G5M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863416},"content":"Mr Ahern also said he was still worried about the pharma sector as there could be long term implications.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V6YU3HEZAFDOLF232MVX264RGU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863417},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743672920767},"id":"timestamp-61157","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"DL6A7CWCXJBQXPN4UFHP74ZGZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331271},"content":"Northern Ireland once again on the economic frontline","type":"header"},{"_id":"CDABDE7ZO5HI3IBACSMIRYYTUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863419},"content":"Northern Ireland once again finds itself on the economic front line thanks to the difference in tariffs applied on either side of the border, <i>Freya McClements</i>, <i>Northern Editor, writes</i>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A5RGWJAUPJA3JMJBCJHNV5BQGU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863420},"content":"As part of the UK, Northern goods exported to the US face a 10 per cent tariff, whereas those from the South – part of the EU – face 20 per 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Post-Brexit, under the Windsor Framework, goods coming into Northern Ireland are treated as imports to the EU, which means any reciprocal tariffs imposed by the bloc on US goods will affect the North as well – potentially creating a point of divergence between Northern Ireland and Britain.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AHZAITVL2RHVBAXPMW3HYUPTAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863423},"content":"It remains to be seen what the political implications of all of this will be, though this would certainly be problematic for unionists; equally problematic will be what, on the face of it, appears to be the creation of an economic border – at least in regard to US exports – on the island of Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7HJYHQJX4ZBTXHELSPDZNAG6EM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863424},"content":"Speaking this morning, the North’s Minister for Finance, Sinn Féin’s Caoimhe Archibald, said the imposition of tariffs were “deeply regrettable” and warned a trade war would “only fuel inflation and risk recession.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"VV7SCM7NXVDNDNZCOQDP54I3TI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863425},"content":"She has spoken this morning to the Tánaiste Simon Harris and the UK Trade Secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, and ministers will discuss the tariffs at a meeting of the Northern Executive at Stormont later this morning.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SZL4NZ4LRNEG5BFUW7PTGOQ5HI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863426},"content":"Ms Archibald outlined five key asks of the British and Irish Governments.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OUUJ2IXUXZFY7DXXZTWS5NCUVQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863427},"content":"“First, to keep the north’s unique circumstances in mind in trade negotiations and in terms of any countermeasures.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L5ZY3ERO6NGLZD7YLDB7UVTXJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863428},"content":"“Second, to act in concert, and to minimise divergence between Britain and the EU.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M4JS3IEIIBEYHL3NNFJW3YPO7E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863429},"content":"“Third, to provide a properly resourced advice service for businesses so that they can understand how tariffs affect them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XNS7KJGJQJDPLOXHDQPRRV35GU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863430},"content":"“Fourth, to improve existing trading initiatives such as HMRC’s duty reimbursement and waiver schemes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3QC6343RZZFR5MX5IGVSRZM4IU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863431},"content":"“Finally, to bring forward an economic package that protects our international competitiveness,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZOKMAME26FDZHLASP6XNAYABSQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863432},"content":"Suzanne Wylie, the Chief Executive of the NI Chamber, which represents around 1,000 businesses in Northern Ireland, said time was needed to “unpick the detail and digest the implications” but there was “no doubt that these tariffs will have ramifications for businesses in Northern Ireland.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"SRSMFMJTF5GUHCA4E3G2HJ3CFI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863433},"content":"She said it was time for “calm heads and careful, constructive assessment” and asked that “Northern Ireland and its unique circumstances are adequately considered as both the UK and EU prepare to respond.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"J6MFUPG2FVDM3DSPDLT7AEWYW4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863434},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743673662891},"id":"timestamp-79278","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"4OOZOC3OBBBUDBN6DNBMALXM2A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331288},"content":"EU may hit tech giants in tariffs response","type":"header"},{"_id":"GJDB4IYSQ5BAFIMI32SR7N22GE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863436},"content":"The European Union should not rule out targeting US tech companies in the bloc’s retaliation to sweeping tariffs announced by Mr Trump, a senior MEP has said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OR6IPNN2V5A5JP3LVYIVB7OKP4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863437},"content":"<i>Here is Jack Power’s report:</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"W36DKXWI4RHABD3L6LJHH7AOJE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863438},"content":"Bernd Lange, the chair of the European Parliament’s trade committee, said tariffs on digital services and tech giants, would be one way to increase the pressure on the US to come to the negotiating table.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2YPJZTH3D5E4JICW2X2WYEAPCQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863439},"content":"Speaking on Thursday morning, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said there seemed to be “no order to the disorder” of Mr Trump’s plans.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KY3RV74L5BHW5D6RB74DWG4CFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863440},"content":"The head of the EU’s executive arm, which is responsible for the bloc’s trade policy, said it would respond with a series of countermeasures to protect European interests.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2LHEPSOYYFH7JCWGHSSK7YZC5Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863441},"content":"The commission had already been preparing to hit €26 billion worth of US goods with tariffs, in response to import taxes Mr Trump previously levied on steel and aluminium last month.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HY7MZZ5KGBEDHJSSJ43WBEYKLA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863442},"content":"The exact US products to be targeted has been the subject of intense lobbying. The Government has pushed back against plans to hit US bourbon, due to fears Mr Trump would respond with even higher tariffs on Irish whiskey in retribution. France has also raised concerns about bourbon, to protect its exports of wine and champagne from steeper tariffs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ROBX7E4CUZE43CA2VC727TKXNQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863443},"content":"The EU is preparing a further package of retaliatory levies, in response to the vast US tariffs announced on Wednesday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YR4GROTUBJCTDMNKNAGXKTSEEQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863444},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743673880002},"id":"timestamp-70312","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"FUK6L25Q7NDQRPAB3ENP6C3DTM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331298},"content":"Statement from the British Irish Chamber of Commerce on US Tariffs on EU and UK Imports","type":"header"},{"_id":"ZH77K25SENBIBCQ4CMIBLFO4V4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863446},"content":"The British Irish Chamber of Commerce has expressed deep concerns about the decision of the US Administration to impose tariffs of 20 per cent on EU imports and 10 per cent on UK imports.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IZFBH5IPAFAXTNCWCBD4XRBU3Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863447},"content":"“These measures threaten to disrupt trade flows, impact businesses on both sides of the Atlantic, and undermine the long-standing commitment to open and fair trade.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GQEJF3ZK4JDJFOUZPFGAIOEUHQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863448},"content":"“It is imperative that the EU and the US engage in urgent dialogue to resolve this disputes,” it has said in a statement.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7RVUWFA3KRCVVKSJSFKXGKI6NA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863449},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743673955695},"id":"timestamp-61362","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"5RCUU6VTZBBPDP7TFYUZSPUSIA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331303},"content":"Simon Harris says clear heads needed to negotiate tariffs","type":"header"},{"_id":"4AIMYKQ3DBBWVNCUWCKVSN43YU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863451},"content":"The laws of economic gravity will kick in now that the “moment of chaos” has passed, Tánaiste Simon Harris has said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GD6QESNISRCRDGO5H5GHQWBLFE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863452},"content":"He has been speaking on RTÉ radio’s Today with Claire Byrne show.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4TU33QRFSVFRLJQ76ACCYIKOCQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863453},"content":"Vivienne Clarke reports that Mr Harris has acknowledged that Mr Trump was determined to have his moment, and he did that on Wednesday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ITQ62XB4FRGWJB2SBY5VHRINII","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863454},"content":"“Once that moment came, economic gravity and the laws of economic gravity would have to kick in and that there would be a need for mature, calm negotiation on a way forward.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TUKEOLYJIVHJLA26TGZQZL6IAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863455},"content":"“And in what was a very grim and dark moment for global trade last night, I think the only slight, tiny glimmer of hope in that difficult situation was even an acknowledgment from the US president himself that there was now scope for negotiation and engagement, and that’s what needs to happen.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EA23N6OLHVAAXJVNJKU77AMVL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863456},"content":"He did warn again that the ‘Big Bang’ of Wednesday night did not mean it was all done, and that his sense was that pharma tariffs were still on the agenda. He said the fact that they were not announced this week means that the EU has a little time on its side.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HALGYD4YKBBAHCT3G5RBR3VFB4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863457},"content":"“Ireland I think has been successful in making the point at a European level that pharma is not just about the Irish economy it’s actually has a very significant impact on the European economy,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UTFNXY7VPNC7JJO5FWEHVF67WQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863458},"content":"The big pharma companies were not in Ireland just because of the corporation tax, they were here because of access to the EU market with 60 per cent of their products going to European markets, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"36A5QOCQNZDN3LHVPRKISQ4P4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863459},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743675674174},"id":"timestamp-19217","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"NUPICALEANBSXBWBD3IXGZVWLM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331313},"content":"How can Ireland and the EU respond?","type":"header"},{"_id":"E3UC4R6M5FBGVHHGV3KQPMALHE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863461},"content":"Perhaps the ‘wait and see’ stance is best. Many senior politicians in the Union seem to want to see what impact the announcement by Mr Trump will have.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H5J7OSK3TRBOLFGZKBNA277QLE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863462},"content":"The immediate reaction has been a fall in European stock markets but that does not provide a medium-term indicator. There have been warnings including those from Ursula von der Leyen who has said the global economy may “massively suffer” as a result of the tariffs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LGQ2E4Q23RGSXHTXFCXRB7BMQI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863463},"content":"Already the EU is close to announcing a raft of measures in response to the first round of tariffs on steel and aluminium.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7GWZXKDTJRFLZC5CRYUBI4KZ4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863464},"content":"Already, on Thursday, we see governments begin to question the basis of the calculations used by the US to determine the tariffs. China, in particular, has challenged it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L6W7W55HGNEZJIKVSYWD3HHADM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863465},"content":"In advance of a meeting of EU trade ministers on Monday, there is a clear appetite for negotiation – some EU States believe that, true to Mr Trump’s reputation as a dealmaker, what was announced last night represents an opening gambit. It is noteworthy that the Executive Order signed in the White House last night did leave room for negotiations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N725NRXXMRHLRJDOKUB37267JQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863466},"content":"There are differences among EU States as to the response needed. There are fears in some States, including Ireland, that the proposed tariff on US Bourbon whiskey, will trigger retaliatory sanctions against EU-origin alcohol and food in an escalating trade war.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y5ZFXSTWBFAHPETYZRZYWIILI4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863467},"content":"There is also the difficulty for Ireland of the differential rate of tariffs between this State and the UK, especially Northern Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RFQEVW4EDVAQBM2HEXP44CJE64","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863468},"content":"Generally, the EU has said it will not stand idly by. That will mean, in the absence of agreement, reciprocal tariffs. There is also some talk of the EU applying anti-coercion measures. These can place restrictions on goods and services, and also on intellectual property rights and foreign direct investment. This is very much seen as the nuclear option and is unlikely to be deployed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BD5UDJZMCVFQ5H73JLX2KHNSCM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863469},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743676641650},"id":"timestamp-17312","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"L5Y4RQB255E7HGU5HVGJAS3ZFU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331323},"content":"Russia, Belarus, Cuba and North Korea not on tariff list","type":"header"},{"_id":"3N4IFZ2GOJC7XHI4DOPIEX2G4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863471},"content":"There were a number of notable exclusions from the global tariffs announced by the US. They included Russia, North Korea, Belarus and Cuba.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KKY6E4TPHNEJTOY7EXTGQG66AQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863472},"content":"All of those countries are already subject to punitive sanctions, and trade restrictions. The White House said on Wednesday night that those are so high that they “preclude any meaningful trade” with the US.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5QLLHOE3FJGMVDXHTCRLLJICUI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863473},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743676918842},"id":"timestamp-17913","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"DYXS5GRUPBCJHO5WIO4SEQBLWA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331327},"content":"Further caution expressed by Paschal Donohoe in Dáil","type":"header"},{"_id":"YAMRUAY5FJHARMUXNIJ5ZPZVWA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863475},"content":"Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe has warned businesses that there are limits to what the Government can do to support them, <i>Marie O’Halloran reports.</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"KD2VWR6JW5F2NFVE4KCYIAOLZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863476},"content":"He said that as well as taking initiatives to deal with the US “I also do need to be honest and clear regarding setting expectations of what we can do”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B32254AVG5DRVMCFEGC2NGJOGE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863477},"content":"In terms of trade for Ireland alone “that’s tens of billions of euro. If that is affected in any way, no Government can put in place measures that can take the place of that trade.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"LL75MP4Q6FCATAABR5YKFQ4XXY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863478},"content":"But he said that based on “what is currently happening”, the forecast is “for a lower level of growth, but for our economy still to have very high levels of employment”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YAP3T6QV3JBO3ONVS4EVV6DZ24","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863479},"content":"Speaking in the Dáil during finance questions he said the Government would engage with businesses through organisations like the IDA and Enterprise Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M5LKWU6RWVFTXDERH5ZNAKZCNM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863480},"content":"“What we will have to do is engage with companies individually and see how we can assist them in finding new markets or dealing with negotiation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6DCF2BEPDFDADOBUF5TBU4FGBI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863481},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743677336426},"id":"timestamp-92627","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"2FQOCFWIZFGBFCFDXYYCM357DY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331335},"content":"THE ASTI Coercion Instrument – what is the EU’s nuclear trade weapon?","type":"header"},{"_id":"UJLMM5MYFRF3RO2OPCD347WNJ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863483},"content":"Tánaiste Simon Harris was asked this morning about use of the Anti Coercion Instrument (ACI), <i>writes Jack Horgan-Jones.</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"IQFOR2GAR5AE7KHPWUIKHGUDWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863484},"content":"The EU developed it a few years ago, partially, in response to Chinese action against Lithuania over support for Taiwan as a way of hitting back against “deliberate economic pressure” against the bloc or its member states. It entered into force in 2023.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BPI2BLC7TVFY7LLTBAESZJFN2Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863485},"content":"It is an extraordinarily powerful tool, variously referred to as the “big bazooka” or “the tariff equivalent of a nuclear bomb”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4PGSRU4PGNF6NLMQNOTRVT4BDA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863486},"content":"“It can be as broad as it likes, as deep as it likes, as long as it likes, as short as it likes – it’s a totally flexible instrument,” was how one Irish Government figure summed it up in recent weeks.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QYGDKPKXF5BF5G4IVDNG4IMIRI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863487},"content":"What does that mean in the real world?","type":"text"},{"_id":"AVNX6KNBEJF2DBGFZGSQPOPIKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863488},"content":"Well, it’s quite extensive, to put it mildly. It can target trade in goods or services, impose measures affecting the access of foreign direct investment to the Union, financial markets, aspects of intellectual property rights, access to EU markets and public procurement, restrictions on access by banking and insurance entities or placing certain chemicals, sanitary and phytosanitary goods in the EU, export controls and more – including targeting individuals connected to supposedly coercive jurisdictions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J7ARI7ULIVHVRK2HEAYI4CZLKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863489},"content":"The EU views the ACI as a weapon of deterrence, outlining that it will “be most successful if there is no need to use it”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A2KNDA6XFVDAXIDYPNE7FX45WM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863490},"content":"Before deploying it, the European Commission has to first start an examination of the existence of economic coercion, either off its own bat or following a request. This can take up to four months, and if the Commission proposes, the European Council (heads of government in member states), has 8-10 weeks to act. The proposals would have to be confirmed by a qualified majority. The framework envisages a further period of engagement with the coercive actor, before adopting measures “as a last resort” – and only with the support of a committee composed of representatives of Member States. If this is approved, the Commission has three months to impose measures.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2EZ76WNL4ZBHLDDD74JFER6GQI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863491},"content":"Nonetheless, even announcing or hinting at the early stages of using the ACI could be seen as escalatory – something Dublin is strongly urging against.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YETXX2T2IVAO5EWVGFSJWMCWSM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863492},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743678454317},"id":"timestamp-20558","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"SD2KCEKGIBCWNDPF4KCVPE7LHI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331346},"content":"Heard and McDonald Islands hit with US tariff of 10% despite being uninhabited.","type":"header"},{"_id":"DYL7WM43TNHP5ASO52IKPR4EUM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863494},"content":"A 10 per cent tariff placed on uninhabited islands in the Antarctic Ocean is the most bizarre takeaway from Liberation Day. The islands, Australian territories in the Antarctic, do have a large population of Penguins, however.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SALHOM6AGJGSJMIFDMRHEEKDRQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863495},"content":"There has been a lot of amused, and bemused, reaction on social media.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CP5FIG745VBEBCDPA25MVWDN5U","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"D6MU3F5S4BBPLCBJLP3ARHP2BE","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"3DD6CWDQZJHDNEP7RKXELKSSRY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863499},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743678733684},"id":"timestamp-77702","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"43ECGLI6PVC5FDT6X7MO753LEY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331352},"content":"EU officials fearful that pharmaceuticals could be next","type":"header"},{"_id":"JKRFFP42CNAPNFN4MGCEM6DWBI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039889},"content":"Ireland should be wary of breathing any “sigh of relief” that pharmaceutical exports were not hit by Trump’s across-the-board tariffs, a senior European Commission official has said. <i>Jack Power is reporting on this development.</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"YX2BYR64ARFZPMIMGWYHUPOOW4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039890},"content":"The EU executive believes everything still points towards the US administration preparing to follow-up with specific tariffs targeting the pharma sector. “We do fear and suspect pharmaceuticals are next”, one commission source said on Thursday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IZE6DFM2UZHGNCTWHSYEGQ6BKU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039891},"content":"Pharma products account for a huge amount of Ireland’s large trade flow to the United States. Mr Trump has frequently spoken about bringing the manufacturing facilities of Irish-based pharma companies back to the US.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y2LYAX6ZTVDPXO2XNRCNQVQ5OM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039892},"content":"Trump had singled out steel, cars, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and timber as strategic sectors he wants to protect domestically, by levying tariffs on imports from abroad.","type":"text"},{"_id":"22L5EGPED5CAXH65YMDGBNRE3Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039893},"content":"The White House previously slapped 25 per cent tariffs on imports of steel, aluminium, cars and car parts, sold from Europe and elsewhere to the US. Expected tariffs on pharma exports to the US from Ireland and other EU states would probably be set at similar levels, the commission source speculated.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AI3SVBDJ4RFINIEBLFFS6SDIOU","additional_properties":{"_id":"FOCZ5OAP2FHSLI7ZDZN62GUH4U"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743680610821},"id":"timestamp-45064","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"IZDBS66D3JG6XIDZFUXDROG6TM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331359},"content":"Harris again emphasises need to be calm in response to tariff hikes","type":"header"},{"_id":"LQC7AYF5EFG75ASLKGDPMEFICM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039896},"content":"Leaders’ Questions in the Dáil has unsurprisingly been dominated by this issue. Tánaiste Simon Harris, who is taking the questions today, gave a variation on what he said to Claire Byrne earlier on RTÉ.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QUFXQQZMZFBSRGSYTIFVADCBPA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039897},"content":"<i>This is Marie O’Halloran’s report from Dáil Éireann.</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"KY2THSNCOBFU7JZSMPC6BK6FFE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039898},"content":"Mr Harris said the US president was “determined to have a moment of chaos” in terms of the announcement of the biggest change in terms of trading approach in probably a century.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZOD6EHOIENB7XKF6TPA6C24YIU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039899},"content":"“He’s had his big bang moment” with tariffs and charts and “now it’s time for calm and measured response”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4MG7LEJTX5CPRE6QYCZOAJ7U6A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039900},"content":"“What now needs to happen is negotiation and if I have to try and find some sliver of hope in a very grim and dark situation it is that there were references both by President Trump” and the Secretary of Commerce “about negotiations”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LFR43R4IEJFWTFNWNKXYSPH4VQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039901},"content":"He was responding in the Dáil to Sinn Féin finance spokesman Pearse Doherty who said that last night the world was “subjected to US trade aggression and to add insult to injury we had to watch the US play the victim”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3XYTDTIOARH4ZL6CLWVSIMPCDA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039902},"content":"During Leaders’ Questions he said the average EU tariff on US goods is 5 per cent but “fact and reality took a back seat last night” when the US president “went on to claim that the EU imposes tariffs of 39 per cent”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"65S27PIQJBAYXMXMDE72F7PGQM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039903},"content":"Mr Doherty added that “what Trump did last night was an act of sabotage”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R7IMXHYF6VHF5NXH2NUJDXWUG4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039904},"content":"He called for the convening of the North-South Ministerial Council without delay.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EW2W7FK7CFFYRIIPXGRTOV4OOM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039905},"content":"“We need to have a laser focus on the things that we can control” and “we also need to protect our all-Ireland economy”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MU3WTCNP2VHHPA4O56PQLRGDIM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039906},"content":"Mr Harris said he had spoken this morning to the North’s Minister for the Economy and held a video call with the First and Deputy First Ministers and the Minister for the Economy yesterday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FJFAFM5BBBCH5CAIJ75ETSF7E4","additional_properties":{"_id":"AQYKYPMZSNFMNEXOHFVMBSLPB4"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743680877920},"id":"timestamp-747","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"FTDLKU7NGZBRJJKYDGHALBNNHI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331372},"content":"EU Commissioner Michael McGrath in Dublin for meeting with Taoiseach","type":"header"},{"_id":"DSFTMUHP4VG3ZMAO67RWACS3IU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039909},"content":"The Commissioner for Democracy, Justice, the Rule of Law and Consumer Protection is in Dublin today for a meeting with the Taoiseach, and also his erstwhile boss, Micheál Martin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FR6CAHRLYVDTBLAZDXVNGVMCFU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039910},"content":"They will have much to discuss, but we expect the subject matter to be the impact of tariffs. Both politicians are due to hold a joint press conference at 1.30pm.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4WACE74EDZAA5MH3G2O6Y77NPE","additional_properties":{"_id":"CFD4P3AQEJCOZABQO5TNXZGIRY"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"UKSHY2VYY5FZNFRYVA45DSK2F4","additional_properties":{"_id":"DAG6KUFSJFFXLGV7PYLP5E7QPM"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743681254217},"id":"timestamp-64521","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"AKHCW5OWLNETXDZ3TX2FBABFSM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331377},"content":"The view of the Economist on Liberation Day – it’s not good.","type":"header"},{"_id":"ZAKJSONA2BEAPM7KOZPGTAEGFE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039914},"content":"The Economist has used clever word play for its cover headline, branding Wednesday’s announcement in the White House Rose Garden as ‘Ruinaton Day’.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QZAWX77L6NBI3PU3HCKYR4MQAI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039915},"content":"It goes on to say that almost everything President Trump said abut history, economics and trade during the press conference was “utterly deluded”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YWB7GRS4GRGLPORRYIUNVHPJ4U","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"SLMCK5VDINEPRIAPYHXDWQABK4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331381},"content":"Von der Leyen to hold strategic dialogue with pharma industry on Tuesday","type":"header"},{"_id":"U7VNWW3CYJGJ3OLY33UFUI77MU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039918},"content":"Tánaiste Simon Harris has been fielding questions about tariffs in the Dáil, <i>writes Marie O’Halloran.</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"W7HDKZTHKZCSRGLH4KA4GMYDJE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039919},"content":"He warned that “we shouldn’t fool ourselves” that pharma will not be included in the US President’s tariffs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B4FRX7VVRBH5BAR4XBHNRNZSDU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039920},"content":"Simon Harris told TDs that pharmaceuticals were exempted from the US administration’s list last night.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7VCQ3PYMORFF7CG6ZZQVA4ZS2I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039921},"content":"“But we shouldn’t fool ourselves that there aren’t further plans in relation to sector specific measures, including pharma,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I3ARVHURVFDUVHAXD4NK6EUTUU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039922},"content":"He told the Dáíl that EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will hold a strategic dialogue with the pharmaceutical industry next Tuesday. Mr Harris said this was an important step.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RPG4W6JDWJDZVATWP6MFWJXMUI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039923},"content":"Labour Party TD Duncan Smith said the tariffs imposed risk “plunging us all into a global recession”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SVVJLNWYDNF73INU5QOD2LJBNU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039924},"content":"Hitting out at the US president he said he “exhibited zero economic rationale for pursuing this approach or perhaps proved why he is one of very few people who issued a plan that ended up bankrupting a casino”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LFZWSTQCUBFXBCFACB4UVQWHL4","additional_properties":{"_id":"RC5M5ZWRW5FQLGF6SVAQHAO7UQ"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743682267445},"id":"timestamp-98982","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"MXMMYX5CA5AMRIOW55VVKHQSYM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331390},"content":"US charged EU €4 billion more in tariffs in 2023 than were levied by the Union.","type":"header"},{"_id":"2DBXZJ2YRRAWJFPP4D47UAN5PE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743684524127},"content":"There is an interesting fact sheet from the EU setting out all the facts about trade, services, VAT and tariffs as they apply in the Union, and also in the States.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TIE2SDEDTBFQVGJQWSL244EBVI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743684524128},"content":"<a href=\"https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_25_541\" target=\"_blank\">You can find it here</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WONP56JKE5BZRGAM3SJ36IQNYQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743684524129},"content":"There are some very interesting facts. For one the EU enjoyed a trade surplus of €157 billion in relation to goods in 2023. However, the US had a surplus of €109 billion in terms of services. When goods and services were combined, the EU had a surplus of €48 billion.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4DGDZGDGMFFQ7KIZ7YDFWCUMXY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743684524130},"content":"The fact sheet also discloses that the EU collected €3 billion in tariffs from the US in 2023 but, in the same year, the US collected €7 billion in tariffs from the EU- some €4 billion more. It also debunks the notion that VAT is a tariff, setting out that the tax is applied universally to all goods in the EU States, irrespective of their origin. The tax is applied equally to goods from inside the EU and goods from outside the EU.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JCGJC2J55NH2JGQCFA6HYNV2CI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743684524131},"content":"It is the equivalent of the sales tax in the US, which applies to EU goods as well as to American-produced goods.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NOZJ3JCQUVAUTOT45ZJ4YFDRAI","additional_properties":{"_id":"ZDUMTNM6MVG3RDFZSL7RYFIQPY"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743683829933},"id":"timestamp-37752","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"SJPJ6BUWCBAQJPH7NNOGL3AKUU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331397},"content":"The Other Big (and Sad) News in Ireland today – death of Mick O’Dwyer","type":"header"},{"_id":"6T7YLVBX2JAUHLB656NSII4TN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743684524134},"content":"The Tánaiste has described Mick O’Dwyer as one of Ireland’s greatest GAA icons, <i>Marie O’Halloran reports.</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"JGMU64VGDRBODGG2K4ISVERKI4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743684524135},"content":"The Dáil discussion on the US tariffs was briefly interrupted for tributes to GAA legend Mick O’Dwyer, who has died at the age of 88.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CCF62LSMIJCIVOEX4YXQURV7GE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743684524136},"content":"Tánaiste Simon Harris said “it is with tremendous sadness that we’ve learned of the passing of one of Ireland’s greatest GAA icons.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W23EM2QTWVBQDFUA3VDQSKAP5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743684524137},"content":"“His contribution to Irish sport, to community life was extraordinary, and particularly in his native county of Kerry though we do like to claim a bit of him for the great joy he brought us in Wicklow and to many other counties.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4CETENXGIBAKTKIAP74AJHY7JY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743684524138},"content":"“I think of him, his family today on his passing and all of his The GAA family as well. May he rest in peace.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"RFOZMMCUTVE4LF3GM4BHRLKSMI","additional_properties":{"_id":"PO7M6DYGKJBY7HRSEBUF3NVMQE"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"RKGI4CQ4OVA5FOMKHWLZ7JLJZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743684524140},"content":"Earlier during finance questions TDs also paid tribute.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6Y4EIZWZAFETTF5CESFCUKJW6Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743684524141},"content":"Fianna Fáil North Kildare TD Naoise Ó Cearúil. He too said he was a GAA legend, “particularly in Kerry, but we have a great fondness for him in Kildare for delivering two Leinster titles and getting us to an all-Ireland final.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RA72VCMIYFHCFLXFH2664FZOQE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743684524142},"content":"“I was quite young at the time, but they’re very positive memories, and just acknowledge him and his contributions to Irish society over those many years.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"7ITWCI5WD5D5JB5PTXGKPBTYHQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743684524143},"content":"Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe said “May he rest in peace. I know many members of the GAA family in Kildare will be feeling particularly sad today.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2XPFOBUNK5CWPOEAOS2Z6GYNOM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743684524144},"content":"Fine Gael Wicklow-Wexford TD Brian Brennan recalled involvement with him in Wicklow GAA. “I was sponsor, and he was manager, and one of the most amazing characters I’ve ever come across. And the legacy he’s left in the GAA world is priceless.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"WBPO4VSD25G6ZLD7V6MQKRTE5Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510718},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743701234191},"id":"timestamp-95011","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"ONCHPVFUD5D3ZF3OOFLJVRIUFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510719},"content":"Minister for Public Expenditure <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/jack-chambers/\" target=\"_self\">Jack Chambers</a> has compared US president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_self\">Donald Trump</a>’s tariff regime to the circumstances which precipitated the Great Depression.","type":"text"},{"_id":"26EGTZEXLBB2FHUDIHNRSC6BTI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510720},"content":"He said the extent of the tariffs that was announced by Mr Trump has not been seen for 100 years.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QMF6CLRYOBFWVKNYHZMYOFIJ64","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510721},"content":"He said Mr Trump’s announcement, which includes a 10 per cent baseline tariff on all imports along with higher rates for many countries, will be “a great disrupter to the trading environment”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XUSF6DW3FBDRZF5XR7QMLMBAT4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510722},"content":"Speaking to reporters in Dublin, he said: “If you look at the fundamentals of what’s being imposed, it’s going to have a serious impact on consumer confidence, it’s going to have an impact on investment confidence, potentially increases costs and inflationary impacts on ordinary citizens – all of that yields great uncertainty.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MRMTY6HEOVDXHC55NMOV5UHTQM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510723},"content":"“The last time the scope or extent that this was tried globally in trading terms was around 1930, which led to the Great Depression. In fact, the tariffs that are being imposed now are in excess of that.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KQS6R7C5WZEKDL6DQLLI7X77NQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510724},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743702721456},"id":"timestamp-11335","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"7NON3SZ7ONG67FHLR7UNBGSDCU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510725},"content":"Taoiseach Micheal Martin has said the US may not have understood the complexity of tariffs on EU pharmaceuticals when it was first suggested.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SNTGPTMIFZHZXBJ6JG5S6JQDWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510726},"content":"Pharmaceuticals are exempt from the global tariffs announced by Mr Trump on Wednesday, but may form part of further measures.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FPZKB2XAJRF5XJHUFJRIMQIH5Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510727},"content":"Asked whether he believed the tariff exemption would be temporary, Mr Martin said: “We don’t know that. I think what’s happening there is it’s much more complex than might have been originally thought on the US side.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LDDWSWAVDBAFPBOBTGCFN4EMH4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510728},"content":"“There are a lot of complex supply chain issues. Also the cost of medicines would go up immediately for American citizens.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BBXUDLOZLRA2LLZZ4W2KV7CV64","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510729},"content":"Speaking to RTE’s Six One News, he said pharmaceutical goods produced in Denmark, Belgium and Ireland were often intermediate products that required further work in the US.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KRGHVSEXFVFYTAA72YF7PVPEAI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510730},"content":"Other issues included the investment already put into EU factories for compliance, and the skilled workforce required.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DJ2NAKKEMZALJJAHEYA32TGD54","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510731},"content":"“You can’t relocate them overnight and so the US could end up doing more damage to its own companies,” he said. “I don’t think that’s what they want.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"LSKSQ6FWIJBZFM7XCX3WYGSMHU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510732},"content":"Meanwhile, Mr Martin said he did not believe there was a widespread push within the EU for tariffs on US services, but said some of the larger member states may be pursuing that “as a sort of nuclear option on day one.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"GLJAGLZTZZDK3FJNHSLH2FSRLQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510733},"content":"He said the Irish Government was against that, particularly as an initial response.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VQMQGTWQ2ZEZZL6FXF7MO4ZTU4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510734},"content":"“There may be outstanding issues from the American side that we would acknowledge, then maybe we could resolve them by negotiation. There’s no point in doing something without really understanding the unintended consequences that can flow from decisions like this.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"UDZRB5BASRGYZE2O5YF2QJ5WMM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510735},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743703562292},"id":"timestamp-36125","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"A4BCDVQ5JAUEAEFL7MBBUMPKYI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510736},"type":"image"},{"_id":"R3USLEFXI5FMXJ27SZYTSNNGXY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510737},"content":"Italian prime minister <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/giorgia-meloni/\" target=\"_self\">Giorgia Meloni</a> said trade tariffs announced by the US are a mistake, but their impact should not be overestimated and the reaction needed to be carefully considered.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IO5LYOIEZRGIBM3GTY7DHMMPGA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510738},"content":"“We must not fuel alarmism, it’s not a catastrophe,” Ms Meloni said in an interview on Italian state television station RAI.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F2RUPPRQFJHC7LYWRDRQOA3S6M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510739},"content":"“I’m not convinced that the best way to respond to tariffs is with other tariffs,” she added.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JYX6XDTZN5GKLMKFBQE4JNIG3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510740},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743704961379},"id":"timestamp-29973","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"EDLSCQESHW7B3ODBYHW3NZDA24","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510741},"type":"image"},{"_id":"NHSES5J5LFD6HLGBOLTZV62IOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510742},"content":"Global financial markets have been plunged into turmoil as Donald Trump’s escalating trade war knocked trillions of dollars off the value of the world’s biggest companies and heightened fears of a US recession.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HLGW3WMSPNBTVLB43RSU7FJKUE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510743},"content":"As world leaders reacted to the president’s “liberation day” tariff policies demolishing the international trading order, about $2 trillion was wiped off Wall Street and share prices in other financial centres across the globe.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GE3BR3LLRFDPFDUYF5O3ADPWBA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510744},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743706892281},"id":"timestamp-7204","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"D4DEDUHBGFAVLLRIFCYNNZFA2A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510745},"content":"The bad news just keeps rolling in.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UWUMATTDEFGUNHKOWQWTGNXBVY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510746},"content":"Trump’s tariffs are set to increase prices of cannabis products in the US, as many firms rely on Asia for manufacturing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X456UHXQE5AULCXX2HEUMT4WV4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510747},"content":"Items such as tins, vape hardware and specialised glass remain difficult to source domestically, and companies remain largely dependent on Asia particularly China, analysts and executives said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"554DLDQF55GFXC6CXZXSXB7WLI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510748},"content":"“Those relying on exports from nations with tariffs, such as China, will need to take a serious look at how they might absorb the extra costs or alter partnerships,” said Bryan Gerber, CEO of Hara Supply, the world’s largest manufacturer of cones and combustibles.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JXLMWDVFFRBHTJKXXT4EQAHZLE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510749},"content":"Shares of cannabis firms such as Tilray Brands, Canopy Growth, Organigram and Terrascend were trading down between 5 per cent and 10 per cent on Thursday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HUQ4SIY5HRCDPMSB623QXD5OCM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510750},"content":"Most of these tariff costs will be passed to consumers. The higher costs will likely drive more consumers to the illicit market, further denting margins for legal cannabis firms.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YUCDJZG4UNACVA2JUX5Z5SRKTM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510751},"content":"“Most cannabis businesses don’t have the margin flexibility to absorb a 10 per cent-15 per cent increase,” said Mike Forenza, managing partner at AE Global, which makes packaging products for cannabis firms.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FHVRYBGJSBALLDYBXB6LKXS4GA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510752},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743707470592},"id":"timestamp-62910","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"OA3MJKDHONHI3NGNZABNNSE7XQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510753},"content":"Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs could hamstring Big Tech’s billion-dollar efforts to build <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/artificial-intelligence/\" target=\"_self\">artificial intelligence</a> infrastructure in the country, likely undermining a key goal of the administration, analysts have said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SXYEM3V4OFD4HDNIOXOQN23M4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510754},"content":"Mr Trump and technology executives have touted lofty plans by Oracle, SoftBank and others to invest heavily in artificial intelligence since his return to the White House earlier this year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FPVILQPN6ZDEDDDDJGT2VO6LKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510755},"content":"On Wednesday, Mr Trump slapped steep duties on leading technology equipment suppliers including 34 per cent on China, 32 per cent on Taiwan and 25 per cent on South Korea, while imposing a 10 per cent baseline tariff on all imports to the US.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CSWEHBUQSREUPHIPHZTQPYW6CM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510756},"content":"Electronics - which include smartphones, PCs and data-centre equipment - were the second biggest imports last year at nearly $486 billion worth of goods, according to Census Bureau data.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TCHVZQ2OLNHLFO2GH5MDJFB55M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510757},"content":"Bernstein analysts pegged data processing machine imports at about $200 billion in 2024, mostly from Mexico, Taiwan, China and Vietnam.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H4DHDOSVA5CDDAYUUH56ERBMD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510758},"content":"“Capital expenditure by tech giants will get reshuffled: Expect major players in AI infrastructure and consumer tech to reallocate short-term spending away from expansion and toward procurement hedging or sourcing shifts,” said Abhishek Singh, partner at research firm Everest Group.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2SHD3Q7HGNAZPB4SSGFWATVZDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510759},"content":"While semiconductors were exempted from Wednesday’s tariffs, the US is planning targeted tariffs for chips that could come later, a White House official said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5YJFLRVOUFGTLH57AWTHANUJUM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510760},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743708640016},"id":"timestamp-16983","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"O5HASE5GUJCKPOANQA7MF4EXVI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510761},"content":"Speaking to reporters on Thursday amid tumbling US stock markets, Trump said: “I think it’s going very well. It was an operation like when a patient gets operated on and it’s a big thing. I said this would be exactly the way it is.","type":"text"},{"_id":"65RXQC2VRJFFDEYUOH4VRLEZK4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510762},"content":"“We’ve never seen anything like it. The markets are going to boom. The stock is going to boom. The country is going to boom.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"UIVYCPT3AFEIVCA4XVSGXT3VZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510763},"content":"He went on to add: “The rest of the world wants to see is there any way they can make a deal. They’ve taken advantage of us for many years… I think it’s going to be unbelievable…”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3R4D5472GZHWRHW4MG2QBK5DIE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510764},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743708772574},"id":"timestamp-63603","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"P7M5R7KQ52FJFVYQQ7ZAERNQLE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510765},"type":"image"},{"_id":"UEOYAACKQJFZDCL53VDE3PUN54","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510766},"content":"Trump has faced widespread backlash from US lawmakers and global leaders over his tariffs plan, with senior Republican senator Mitch McConnell calling it “bad policy”, while Canada – a traditional American ally – called the tariffs “unjustified” and “unwanted.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5QGVXSHREBDMHM3L4X3TILPURI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510767},"content":"“Trade wars with our partners hurt working people most,” he said. “They are a tax on everyday working Americans. Preserving the long-term prosperity of American industry and workers requires working with our allies, not against them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3A7RH7W77NAINN53X6CDXD3MDY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510768},"content":"“With so much at stake globally, the last thing we need is to pick fights with the very friends with whom we should be working with to protect against China’s predatory and unfair trade practices. That includes what we do on trade.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"XJYJ2KI7GFF35KUVHIYUYEVDNA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510769},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743709329678},"id":"timestamp-2844","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"NAWX6NAYJFG4FNNVSKTU4FNCFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510770},"content":"Apple led a sell-off of tech stocks today, falling more than 9 per cent. Its drop was one of its steepest intraday declines since early 2019, when the company’s shares plunged 10 per cent after it warned that iPhone sales in China would fall short of its expectations at the time.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RRJ6UT3BYFBCHK7FZPX3PTK64Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510771},"content":"Wall Street analysts who follow the company have been looking for signs that Apple will be granted a tariff exemption by the White House, as it did when the Trump administration began its previous round of tariffs in 2018.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MNC4Z7C7N5ASNP2KLQHC2UY77Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510772},"content":"But after Trump’s news conference Wednesday, there was no indication that Apple would receive any relief.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L35SU7UOCJBIDJACHT2NHR7UNQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510773},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743710514336},"id":"timestamp-21495","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"3D4XPIDUBBD7DMKEVLV335ELA4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510774},"content":"More here from our Work Correspondent Emmet Malone on the impact of Trump tariffs on business:","type":"text"},{"_id":"CDW2JDEX4JBWTPTNJFHA3ACCJI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510775},"content":"Thousands of jobs in local businesses working across the country for <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/us/\" target=\"_self\">US</a> multinationals could be affected if the tariffs announced on Wednesday night and any possible retaliatory measures went ahead and caused major disruption to pharma, tech and other multinationals, according to <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/isme/\" target=\"_self\">Isme</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6VXPFWUBHRAYXCMICGUC7CNWBE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510776},"content":"The organisation said that while the majority of small and medium sized businesses do not export to the US, a significant number provide services to large multinational facilities and are in some cases very reliant on those clients.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HOBLUPR62BHLNKRKVE2A6DSXDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510777},"content":"It said it was consulting members on Thursday to gauge the scale of the likely impact in a worst-case scenario.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SKB2ALIUJ5HGDDSWCL6ZG5733Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510778},"content":"“We would have a lot of people who are providing services like that, or employing tradespeople, plumbers or electricians in data centres and the like, or other contracted services, and they could be severely impacted by all of this,” said Isme chief executive Neil McDonnell.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3LRI2HAEBRA2TM6HHASTYKJBPI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510779},"content":"“We would also have a lot of lower-level suppliers into pharma,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WQX4QSU3BJHWBMRQXQG6Y65554","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510780},"content":"“When the pandemic struck we had this one guy whose entire business was getting up early each morning and buying fruit in the markets, then putting it in nice packaging into the offices of Google and other companies like that. 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The new Pay-Related Jobseekers’ Benefit is welcome, but will not be enough to protect certain groups of workers in certain sectors and local economies.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"OGZK7V4FXVCDBE7OZNHOJNFS7Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510785},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743713118464},"id":"timestamp-35338","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"VIAIB5E6WJFGZBSSE3C7PXNUV4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510786},"content":"As world leaders reacted to the US president’s “liberation day” tariff policies demolishing the international trading order, about $2.5 trillion was wiped off Wall Street and share prices in other financial centres across the globe.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RLU75VEMGJGMLHZ7RFXMDEFRYM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510787},"content":"Wall Street shuddered and a level of shock unseen since Covid’s outbreak tore through financial markets worldwide over worries about the damage President Donald Trump’s newest set of tariffs could do to economies across continents, including his own.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q6JCODXOKFD5PJNED42YRMVOYY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510788},"content":"The S&P 500 sank 4.8 per cent, more than in major markets across Asia and Europe, for its worst day since the pandemic crashed the economy in 2020.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JJBBTM2SAZDZLJ7LLBUIFCCAKU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510789},"content":"The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1,679 points, or 4 per cent, and the Nasdaq composite tumbled 6 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H5YJAG2EHZBHZL65T5YOS66O6Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510790},"content":"<iframe title=\"Global markets tumble\" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-6SoKu\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/6SoKu/1/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"494\" data-external=\"1\"></iframe><script type=\"text/javascript\">!function(){\"use strict\";window.addEventListener(\"message\",(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll(\"iframe\");for(var t in a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])for(var r,i=0;r=e[i];i++)if(r.contentWindow===a.source){var d=a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"][t]+\"px\";r.style.height=d}}}))}();\n<\/script>","type":"raw_html"},{"_id":"I7RAL4ICDVCGPHKRECKUXYAQZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510791},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743713234548},"id":"timestamp-90482","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"UKCTN6XAJYB7P242MEY6FSDLS4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510792},"type":"image"},{"_id":"QACGITR6KJG3RDADPJ7B7SHI6M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510793},"content":"President Donald Trump has said he would consider a deal for TikTok where China approves the sale of the short video app in exchange for relief from US tariffs on Chinese imports.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GNCQ26KJH5C3ZIQ6MVX52CPWI4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510794},"content":"Trump said that a deal is close on Tiktok, with multiple investors involved.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CLX4S3JFSZCKLJMUZYWNUF47ZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510795},"content":"TikTok faces an April 5th deadline to reach a deal to find a non-Chinese buyer under threat of being banned from the United States.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LCGLFFBVEFA75BGLGH7CPWSIKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510796},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743714309431},"id":"timestamp-95167","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"CB7423HATVHXRNICWETRRHHNTQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510797},"content":"With that, we are going to bring today’s live coverage of Trump’s tariffs to a conclusion for today.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SNDGW3NPTJAMHEWST7PKUSXMBM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510798},"content":"Tune into irishtimes.com for more of our coverage tonight and tomorrow. Thanks for being with us.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OIXRPYZTGZHF3AMGHHQH5KNIYY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743692035231},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743713640000},"id":"timestamp-53942","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"COOJEBANBVAYTCTYX27SHELODA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510800},"content":"<b>Main Points</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"IVH76QGTY5BFLFJ7XXLP2LQEXY","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"},{"_id":"VUQXCU46VRCWZKETUIXM2XJ74E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510802},"content":"<b>Key reads</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"U4CLM52BCBFSBIYN4YWQC2V5LE","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"},{"_id":"FULOOK2LTVCJNP3LDJKT2SWKU4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743692035237},"embed":{"config":{},"id":"acast_podcast-27520","url":"/"},"subtype":"acast_podcast","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"6F2ZKZIGW5FCVALWDU4IV4WNUE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331449},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743684656414},"id":"timestamp-22489","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"6WH5PEXJCZFLZM5AIES423QX7E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331450},"content":"Ireland “can and will” weather the storm caused by US President Donald Trump’s imposition of 20 per cent tariffs on imports from the European Union, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V4PIIYG6TVBABE5JIP2C4IPBG4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331451},"content":"Cormac McQuinn reports:","type":"text"},{"_id":"6QFX7Y2OMVDS5L4GI745TAJQ6Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331452},"content":"During a press conference at Government Buildings, Mr Martin said: “Ireland believes in open and free trade and that the imposition of tariffs is bad for the world economy.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"GGL43FVXG5FNXB6EKWKERIFGOE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331453},"content":"“I deeply regret the United States decision to impose 20 per cent tariffs on imports from across the European Union. We see no justification for this.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BNSCYL43GVHRXGP7BNM7FSE3TY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331454},"content":"Mr Martin outlined how more than €4.2 billion worth of goods and services are traded between the European Union and the US every day.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RZK5XIML2NEJVDWYWTHNCO5OIA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331455},"content":"“Disrupting this deeply integrated relationship with tariffs and increased protectionism benefits no one,” he added saying: “Tariffs drive inflation, hurting people on both sides of the Atlantic and they put jobs at risk.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5PSESLGK7JENDM7AZUSWE6NQJU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331456},"content":"Mr Martin said Ireland will “now reflect with our European Union partners on how best to respond.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MO2AXJTGPJH4HED2L7WJG5TEEU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331457},"content":"“It is important that our response is considered and measured. Any action should be proportionate, aimed at defending the interests of our businesses, workers and citizens.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"QYZVEUAKFRAVPGNMOV4JZSMUPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331458},"content":"He said: “Now is a time for dialogue and I believe that a negotiated way forward is the only sensible one.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZCAGPIRSPFGU5A6JF6K2ANEJZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331459},"content":"“A confrontation is in no one’s interests.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"36LN3UZCKNBDXBWJEZCYKNPC3Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331460},"content":"According to the Fianna Fáil leader: “Ireland will be a strong advocate for a constructive solution which enhances the existing and strong transatlantic trading relationship.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RW3D2BOV7VC5PKMR6D7N5FX3S4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331461},"content":"“As a small, open economy and as a country that has built our prosperity on a policy of free and fair trade, there is no doubt that the imposition of tariffs by the US will have an adverse impact.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AC7PGOOWFBFL5OKXOPZLRVVSEI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331462},"content":"“Ireland’s priority is the protection of jobs and our economy.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"A4AVJ6K47ZGSZHK5R56WKQYE6U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331463},"content":"Mr Martin also said: “We are starting from a position of strength and our economy is resilient.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y3GRXWAEHNEG3MEATVTYMZMWXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331464},"content":"“It is important that we focus on factors that we can control including improving our competitiveness and investing in infrastructure.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YLWR34SAHBCT7I6UTCODWG7LAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331465},"content":"“By working with Irish-owned companies, with multinationals based here, with our European Union partners, and bilaterally with the United States, we can and will weather this 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where you have uncertainty, you only have losers.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"LTDAB3E53FEANL3TKJX3E22MMU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331470},"content":"He said the Commission’s first message is it is “ready to negotiate” with the United States adding: “There has been engagement between Commissioner [for Trade Maroš] Šefčovič, [US] Secretary [Howard] Lutnick and others over the last number of weeks”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4UR3SF4BKFD2THQM4SGRKH3LVY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331471},"content":"“We are now ready to step up those negotiations over the days ahead.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"X4Z4LAWBAZDP3PANM3HVFP2KDU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331472},"content":"Mr McGrath said: “the second message is that we will continue to diversify our trade relationships.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B7UNYOOBLFC4ZA2P4TA6UK7POI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331473},"content":"“The EU is a powerhouse in international trade, and more and more countries around the world are engaging now proactively with the European Union with a view to entering into trading agreements, because they see the EU as a very safe, trusted and reliable partner that honours its international commitments when it comes to trade.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BKXAGHYMEBA6VJV3WWVL3JXE6A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331474},"content":"He said the Single Market needs to be strengthened and the EU “must address the competitiveness challenges that have emerged in recent years” and close the “productivity gap that has arisen between the EU and the US and China”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BZVSU7DBJ5D3BCEHRGSTHKYDUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331475},"content":"Mr McGrath said that provisional estimates show that “around €380 billion of EU exports will be subject to the additional tariffs” levied by the US.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D6OTGNVFNJD67D7ZLQUZFLQ37M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331476},"content":"This includes approximately €290 billion subject to the 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subsidies.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"N4LJAPIP6JH6HDLF5HCYRX7FMY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331479},"content":"Mr McGrath insisted however that “the EU is not the problem.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XBBZBTVWGNH4ZBOUNT6SS6WYDM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331480},"content":"“The EU is part of the solution because this mutually beneficial relationship has resulted in millions of jobs being created on both sides of the Atlantic over many, many decades, and we want that good co-operation, that strong relationship, mutually respectful and beneficial to continue.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"F7S2OO2LKJEKVC7ALUSZOPY3Y4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331481},"content":"The Commissioner for Democracy, Justice, the Rule of Law and Consumer Protection also said he wanted to “underline is the importance of unity at an EU level”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UIVBO4D2ORG37IU5X2MXA64J34","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331482},"content":"He said “acting as a bloc, the fact that trade is a competence of the European Commission in full consultation and agreement, of course, with the Member States gives us a collective strength that we would not have individually”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X2HNJ5AGPNFANHYHL5W2LCK4VM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331483},"content":"He said: “our greatest prize is access to the EU single market of 450 million people, the largest and the most important single market in the world.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"IE2PPLR6LVBVLP2V4OKWHBI3E4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331484},"content":"Mr McGrath added: “We are entering into this period of uncertainty and turbulence, as a EU from a position of strength.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RHUIDYF2JJBH5PQK2HVL5JW7IA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331485},"content":"“We stand ready to negotiate, but we also stand ready to respond and to defend the interests of European businesses and our member states in the event that negotiations 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here:","type":"text"},{"_id":"f8ff9978-59d0-4152-955f-9a2788b1e7b0","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331489},"subtype":"irish-times-video","type":"video"},{"_id":"QRM4KBYOBNCDHAOBDM37PGTNZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331490},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743686535334},"id":"timestamp-30400","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"YINKX4IWENE5BJWSP6B4G6IOGU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331491},"content":"Trump’s tariffs will cause “serious damage and disruption” to the EU and the global economy, according to Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5WRLXQTCVNC7HAXKZNZBJKJINU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331492},"content":"Speaking on RTÉ’s News at One today, Mr Chambers said as an open trading economy, “Ireland is particularly at risk.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"RS4EZOEPLJBRBFNAXZ45FW64LI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331493},"content":"“What I would say as well to balance against that is that we are coming from a position of strength with full employment, inflation has moderated and we are running surpluses,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CXGSRJH23VBXZMKRO5CQ2SFYAU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331494},"content":"Uncertainty and instability, however, will affect investment decisions and the prospect of increased jobs growth in the coming years, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HT7PLYQ3SNAYJMK32QBHAWRGIA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331495},"content":"“This is the first chapter on what will be a long, protracted degree of uncertainty that we haven’t seen for decades and in fact it’s one of the biggest disruptions to global trade in over 100 years,” he 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Goldman Sachs have both dropped by around 6 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B5FXJY3KHJBDDPAB7AZ7HDZWRU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331500},"content":"The broader S&P 500 index is sliding down too – it’s down 3.3 per cent in early trading. The tech-focused Nasdaq is being hammered, down 4.5 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"74EWSJD34RGZNCH67OR24NRZVE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331501},"content":"This follows heavy losses in Asia-Pacific markets earlier today, where Vietnam’s main share index slumped by 6.8 per cent after Vietnamese goods were hit with a new 46 per cent tariffs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QMGS56KJ7FHMXCTQBIU3CLBWDQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331502},"content":"European markets are deep in the red too, with the UK’s FTSE 100 index is now down 1.6 per cent or 138 points, at 8469 points. – The Guardian","type":"text"},{"_id":"PLB5OXSKT5CDJCO4TTOVNMLFZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331503},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743687983587},"id":"timestamp-65989","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"FQUNXU46BVD3BAZR65LQO75YAI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331504},"content":"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, meanwhile, has rejected the suggestion that Donald Trump will roll back on tariffs, though added the US president is “always willing to pick up the phone.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DVXVP36BARA5DIE3HF6T4YYSL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331505},"content":"When asked by CNN on Thursday if Mr Trump might pull back on implementing the tariffs before they come into effect, Ms Leavitt said:","type":"text"},{"_id":"B724E2UIX5DZZFP42ULNWC25CQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331506},"content":"“The president made it clear yesterday this is not a negotiation. This is a national emergency. He’s always willing to pick up the phone to answer calls, but he laid out the case yesterday for why we are doing this.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3XW25MVMPNBLHLJ4ZFXOIKPUSQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331507},"content":"Separately, Ms Leavitt attempted to allay investors’ concerns saying:","type":"text"},{"_id":"HDBB3R5GWRF6VKF25WKLHSY7PY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331508},"content":"“To anyone on Wall Street this morning, I would say trust in President Trump,” Leavitt said. “This is a president who is doubling down on his proven economic formula from his first term.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BVBVS2FFSNB73DQFXVZPFABR6I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331509},"content":"“This is a common-sense policy. And if these countries wanted to negotiate, if these countries wanted to do what’s right, they’ve had 70 years to do it,” she told CNN.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G2JQ3RMZZBESHEFTZ2PX2XBIMM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331510},"content":"“Instead, they have been ripping off American workers. And President Trump has made it very clear that this is a policy he was going to implement.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"LL3JIZBETRGTDGRP3SGNCDHYAY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331511},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743688286191},"id":"timestamp-37361","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"BQHQMHKO5NBTDEVEUFIK7UMCCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331512},"content":"Ireland will “not be shy” when it comes to its interests and the strategy being devised by the European Union in response to US President Donald Trump’s trade tariffs announcement, according to Taoiseach Micheál Martin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EOFNUJ72EBFN7I5736M7QRMTDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331513},"content":"He also said Ireland is opposed to a digital services tax aimed at US tech companies, an idea floated by France on Thursday, Cormac McQuinn 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jobs will be lost or not be created. “We should only ever countenance counter tariffs if we believe it’s going to take Trump to the negotiating table and that it will lead to de-escalation.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZWC4SRSXLRBZ3PXZT67HXGMTAE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331543},"content":"If we believe what Trump is doing to be an act of self harm, then we shouldn’t rush in to do the same thing from a European point of view.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3KYLQIS6TBCRLCTW3JMQ7KJRGI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331544},"content":"<b>Ged Nash, Labour Party finance spokesman</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"26BRZ5KJENBFJGJHCQP4BS36VI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331545},"content":"In a statement released on Wednesday night, Mr Nash said the EU’s power and agency “Must be used wisely”","type":"text"},{"_id":"WMY5DXCGQJHVRKANIEOAZAA7B4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331546},"content":"“There is an enormous responsibility on the government and the EU to fully 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Ireland needs to negotiate with the US administration. It is vital that the Irish government be a force for de-escalation in this crisis. 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His two younger sisters, Jana (11) and Leen (6), and his mother, Fulla Abu Teir (29), were also killed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SVVOQOORXZHSZNDMHUT3T6Z7RA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Shawqia was dead, too. Her husband, Suleiman, had died early in the war, relatives said, when his heart condition flared up after a nearby air strike.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZTK76SO52RB7VLYMRWN3ATTSNQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We never thought such massive attacks would happen again,” Qasim said two days later at the European Gaza Hospital near Khan Younis. “We thought the fighting had exhausted both sides, and that war wouldn’t start again.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6HBHEAAIHEOVIQ7WHHVFQSZ3RU","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"XEOQJJ4PHFBVNGFMFSBUHN53VU","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Israeli military said that it had targeted a Hamas operative who “stayed inside a building” on March 18th, but did not identify the person or specify whether it meant the Abu Teirs’ home. 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The ministry’s figures do not distinguish between civilians and combatants, though Hamas publicly announced the deaths of several senior officials in last month’s initial attacks.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UH2DF6YLCJBOTHWK6OUT7T4R4U","additional_properties":{},"content":"Israel said it had renewed air strikes on Hamas sites and operatives to force the group to release more Israeli hostages after Hamas rejected new Israeli demands.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5XMPDVADQ5FQVHLSW6MKELND4E","additional_properties":{},"content":"A <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-gaza-bombing.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-gaza-bombing.html\">New York Times investigation</a> found that the Israeli military has loosened its rules around how many civilians it can endanger with each air strike in pursuit of Hamas fighters, who Israel says are embedded among civilians.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VRT3ZRS3R5HOFOKCPIIOC7N73A","additional_properties":{},"content":"On Wednesday, the Israeli defence minister, Israel Katz, announced it would expand its military offensive in Gaza, adding to the threats looming over the population there.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4775K2PVZJB57H6DS2IJHU43FI","additional_properties":{},"content":"In all, Gaza health officials say, more than 50,000 people have been killed since the war began in October 2023, after a Hamas-led attack on Israel that killed about 1,200 people and took about 250 more captive. Israel’s response has crushed entire families, whole neighbourhoods, Gaza’s healthcare system, its educational institutions, its infrastructure and most of its economy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MEU3MA5BRZAKDOSXDOPHVXRBR4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Abdullah, Huda’s 15-year-old brother, knew little of what happened that night two weeks ago. After the air strike, he managed to push aside the broken water tank and heating panel he was trapped under before blacking out, he said two days later. He woke up in the hospital, pain singeing both eyes, his vision still blurry.","type":"text"},{"_id":"K3RLYDQBMVF73B6NAQZ4M7TE24","additional_properties":{},"content":"Nobody had told him yet that Huda was dead, or his parents, or that his brother Maher was in intensive care.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XDS6BKFWSJW6PTB5D6VYD7DATI","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"F2VQS67PMJF27EAGBF2CBLTLAM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Abdullah was the third of five. His father had fallen for his mother, a cousin, when they were still teenagers. In a society where most marriages are arranged, relatives remarked on Mohammed and Asmaa’s visible tenderness toward each other, Qasim, a cousin, said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BKXBLPUCO5EWZPY4QV7TN7D4RU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Family was everything. Mohammed always threw big birthday parties for the children. And when one of Mohammed’s sisters, also called Huda, was recovering from a C-section, Asmaa bathed and cooked for her as if she were her own sister, the sister recalled.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JEBOK3AVNBAW5PXXMBL7AUCINY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Qasim remembered Mohammed bursting with pride when his eldest daughter, Bayan, got married. He jokingly asked Huda if she wanted to get married next, even before graduating, as some Gaza girls did.","type":"text"},{"_id":"34IXINJRUZAY7PVE2XKFSCJZCI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Huda flew into a rage, her sister Amira remembered. She was the kind of kid who doodled “Nurse Huda in the future” in her notebooks. She loved weddings, and shopping, too – for skin care, for stylish dresses. But marriage could wait.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2Q6OCH4TWZANRDIO57AJP5ECSM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Their grandmother was more traditional. Shawqia was the backbone of the family, dispensing home-cooked food and help whenever anyone needed it and relying on her faith for strength, her family said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"53SMEZLPJ5EWZBRYG47DPFEDNA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Before the war, the family looked forward every year to the day before Ramadan, when Shawqia would invite everyone over for a giant meal in the garden before they began their daily fasts for the holy month. Maftoul, a Palestinian couscous dish, was her speciality, her family recalled: No one else was allowed to make it or fiddle with the spices she put in it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TBVQ4VSDTFC5ZD3FOO6EBLXGBI","additional_properties":{},"content":"When the Abu Teirs were sheltering in the southern city of Rafah early last year, Shawqia made a daily habit of visiting every son and daughter’s family in their respective tents to check in, her daughter Huda said. She sat and helped her grandchildren memorise verses of the Koran, feeding them dates and cookies.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3DDV6VFFBZGMXHBPJPMAWSNQ6U","additional_properties":{},"content":"At one point during the war, the Abu Teirs took refuge with another family in central Gaza. Grateful, Shawqia’s husband, Suleiman, promised to repay them when peace returned, their son Nour said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KR4OZBE52VFQRBMDRDOTTONGOQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Suleiman died shortly after. But Shawqia remembered their promise.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J6NAYL4ZAJCDLPMXSW3SJUCNOY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Last month, she made several batches of maftoul and asked one of her sons to deliver them to the family who had hosted them. 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A statement by the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/vatican/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/vatican/\">Vatican</a> said he died on Thursday in Missouri, where he had been reported to be living.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TJGVXCKJSBEM3LBIG4U26OLCUU","additional_properties":{},"content":"The accusations against the former cardinal, who had helped shape many of his church’s policies for responding to its sexual abuse crisis, were shocking but hardly incredible when they came to light in 2018, after a church investigation concluded that he had molested a teenage altar server in 1971 and 1972 while he was Monsignor in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/new-york-city/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/new-york-city/\">New York City</a>. Thousands of priests before him had faced charges of abuse, and the church had paid victims hundreds of millions in settlements.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L5DSAXZVGJF7HAFBQG3KBOCWTY","additional_properties":{},"content":"In 2012, Cardinal Bernard F Law, the archbishop of Boston and America’s senior prelate, resigned amid revelations that he had protected paedophile priests for years.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R643TAPV5NBGXJSON3ZL2PUL5U","additional_properties":{},"content":"Although McCarrick promptly resigned his ministry “at the direction of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/pope-francis/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/pope-francis/\">Pope Francis</a>”, church officials said, he contended that he was innocent, saying he had no recollection of the reported abuse. He co-operated with the church’s inquiry and did not contest its findings. “I am sorry for the pain the person who brought the charges has gone through, as well as for the scandal such charges cause our people,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VHBGYRSHPVAHXFSOVTYUBGJ62E","additional_properties":{},"content":"Other sexual misconduct allegations against him soon emerged. Cardinal Joseph W Tobin of Newark said that during a McCarrick ministry in Metuchen, New Jersey, in the 1980s, when McCarrick was bishop of the diocese there, three adults accused him of improprieties that led to two financial settlements. And former priests said he had had sexual contact with dozens of New Jersey seminarians, who called him “Uncle Ted”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4MISUWGCH5FCLEP4FJZ7F2K6OI","additional_properties":{},"content":"In 2018, as the allegations against McCarrick widened, the Vatican, moving expeditiously to contain a scandal at the highest levels of the church, announced that Pope Francis had accepted his resignation from the College of Cardinals, suspended him from priestly duties and ordered him into a secluded “life of prayer and penance”, pending the outcome of a canonical trial in early 2019.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VR4PRWG6MBDVPAZ5EMLUATCJ6Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"He temporarily remained a priest, with the title of archbishop, but was stripped of his highest honour, his designation as a cardinal, and church officials said he would no longer be called on to advise the pope or travel on his behalf.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AJSPVQPJ4FGYXK4F2BTDW2KPCU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Resignations from the College of Cardinals for any reason are extremely rare – the last one, by a French prelate in 1927, was over political tensions with the Holy See. McCarrick was said to be the first cardinal in history to step down because of sexual abuse allegations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XSHHFSSSPZPVQI5XTQZLXAKGCM","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"JU7663I7H5CNRMVRTQTSWLLKPI","additional_properties":{},"content":"In a final ignominy, the Vatican announced in February 2019 that Francis had <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/former-cardinal-expelled-from-priesthood-over-sex-abuse-allegations-1.3796637\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/former-cardinal-expelled-from-priesthood-over-sex-abuse-allegations-1.3796637\">expelled the archbishop from the priesthood</a> after the canonical trial had found him guilty of sexually abusing minors and adult seminarians over decades.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4CLIUF2EENESBC57YDBLVML6ZY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The Holy Father has recognised the definitive nature of this decision made in accord with law,” the Vatican said of the sentence handed down by the church’s doctrinal watchdog, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which also rejected an appeal by the defendant.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YZQX7UFMP5AFRBB2IKHMGCOGPU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Vatican officials said it appeared to be the first time that a former cardinal in the United States had been defrocked, or returned to the laity and stripped of all priestly identity, and the first time a former cardinal had been laicised for sexual abuse. 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The name of the victim, now in his 60s, was redacted in a complaint.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VYIG46PBIVDG3JCU5MSPAE5R7M","additional_properties":{},"content":"Former US cardinal Theodore McCarrick charged with abusing minor","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"7ZPYJ6YBMVEK7ESEDW4AADGK64","additional_properties":{},"content":"Filed by the Wellesley police in Dedham District Court, the complaint charged McCarrick with three counts of indecent assault and battery on the boy on June 8, 1974, during a walk together on the college grounds and later in a cloakroom in the hall where the wedding reception took place. Each count carried a penalty of up to five years in prison. An arraignment was set for September that year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FJZQMDXN7RF37IAYMDOCDRJ6LU","additional_properties":{},"content":"To the frustration of many prosecutors, and victims and their families, McCarrick avoided punishment time and again because statutes of limitations had made cases difficult to pursue. But the Wellesley charges were allowed to proceed because of a feature of Massachusetts law: The clock on the statute of limitations stopped when McCarrick was not in the state.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZOZKFJBBJSZNNQ63UTYCJNATXU","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"7WXGTNIJDNAYXIU3M6U2RYFNKE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The accuser told investigators that he had been assaulted by McCarrick repeatedly over many years into adulthood in New York, New Jersey and California. In addition to the accuser’s criminal charges, several lawsuits were filed in New York and New Jersey in recent years by men accusing McCarrick of sexually assaulting them when they were minors.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AYV2RPDIUVCHLLZF724MTFJLN4","additional_properties":{},"content":"On April 17, 2023, as the public furore over the litany of accusations against McCarrick seemed to be fading, he was charged in a second criminal complaint with sexually assaulting a 19-year-old in 1977 at a home on Geneva Lake in southern Wisconsin, where they were both guests. Prosecutors said the victim was swimming off a dock when McCarrick and another man entered the water and fondled his genitals without his consent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RKMM3FKQS5EDHJJDEIML4HJSLQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The complaint said that the victim, who was not named, also claimed that McCarrick had sexually assaulted him on numerous occasions and in other states, first exposing himself to the victim when he was 11. A lawyer for McCarrick, Barry Coburn, said he had no comment on the new charge or on the ongoing Massachusetts case. Both cases were able to proceed because McCarrick was not a resident of the state, and statutes of limitation did not expire once he left the states.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6XOYAP5ZYVFOVMRIGT7BTM3BMM","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"G7LPWZYMUFCY5L5PCMHEMFKOF4","additional_properties":{},"content":"An investigation by The New York Times in 2018 revealed that members of the church hierarchy had known for decades about accusations that McCarrick had preyed on men who aspired to the priesthood, sexually harassing and touching them. In addition, a 60-year-old man, who called himself only “James” in his contacts with the Times, but who subsequently identified himself publicly as James Grein, told the newspaper and Vatican investigators that McCarrick, a close family friend, had begun to abuse him in 1969, when he was 11 years old, and that the abuse had continued for almost two decades.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LDFZPXQKSJE73O5LCZDEPYIKOY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Many of the questions about how McCarrick was able to avoid exposure for his crimes seemed to have been answered by a Washington Post investigation in late 2019, showing that starting in 2001, he had sent cheques totalling more than $600,000 to 100 powerful Catholic clerics, including Vatican officials, some of them directly involved in assessing misconduct claims against him. The cheques were drawn from a special charity account of the Archdiocese of Washington, where he began serving as archbishop in 2001, the Post said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CHRKY2C2EJTEOHYPR4YLDKMZPE","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"UP65UZLVA5Q5SJ526YTDLOB7N4","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"3GMKXLMF75FKNEQ6GQBH4MOLDM","additional_properties":{},"content":"In November 2020, the Vatican released a report detailing how the disgraced former prelate had risen through the church hierarchy despite long-standing allegations of sexual misconduct. The report, based on an investigation commissioned by Pope Francis, in which he largely absolved himself, put fault chiefly on his predecessors, Pope Benedict XVI, and in particular on Pope John Paul II. It said John Paul had ignored explicit warnings about sexual abuse by McCarrick, choosing to believe his denials and “misleading and inaccurate” accounts by several American bishops. Three of the four bishops, it said, found that McCarrick had shared a bed with seminarians and young adult men, but said they were not sure there had been sexual contact.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JV5V7HOU6BCFBM6TC52CX6S37U","additional_properties":{},"content":"Fluent in Spanish, French, Italian and German, McCarrick – an advocate for progressive social causes who also reinforced church dogma – served as John Paul’s emissary on human rights missions for years, travelling to war and disaster zones for Catholic Relief Services and to developing countries to assess religious freedoms.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YU5OQUCXYREYVM7ZTFBOTJX6SM","additional_properties":{},"content":"He was often exposed to danger. He reported atrocities in Lebanon, Rwanda and Kosovo; was detained by gunmen in Bosnia; toured China for the US State Department; and assessed eastern Europe for the church after the cold war. He met Fidel Castro in Cuba and went to Vietnam seeking greater religious freedoms for its people.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DMFPU7I32VETZJOJZZJQJA27HU","additional_properties":{},"content":"After decades as a Vatican troubleshooter, he was appointed by John Paul in November 2000 to preside over the Archdiocese of Washington; he was soon named a cardinal. He was 70, five years short of normal retirement age, but his diplomatic skills and friendships with President Bill Clinton and other VIPs made him a natural choice for the hub of American and world political affairs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PFAT227SUFGOBPAE3JLOCMTFQU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Over the next five years, he became a popular spiritual leader of 560,000 Catholics in 140 parishes in the District of Columbia and five Maryland counties, including 200,000 Spanish-speaking and 100,000 African American Catholics. He was also one of the most visible Catholic churchmen in United States, appearing on public affairs shows and profiled and quoted in magazines and newspapers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AUHKG6V62VGOFGOU3JDF7NOW5M","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"AZJAGLHKX5AVBMZXINKQV6NOHI","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"3N4MIEIUMRFLJBOFDJBOIOU6XQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"TGLLC2PL35ASVIJRX3FTZT6EI4","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"KW3AGOHO5NGCHAFVIWWHKWSS5M","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"MKMTX5T3DZDVVKTJBTQ2ZKBI5E","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"EFTZMNEDGFF7XANGSAFO4KA6IM","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"HIXBR2KIUNATZMTRN6WHR7VNUA","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"NQN4LVNVPRG4VLON4ECWYWKPZU","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"UG5EQC4EVVBB5AJIF5B6BCTS44","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"NTNJD7JENNHLZHOR3ONDRW5CYY","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"J7C7OG5T2VFRXJDMZGYF3FA5SU","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"GUPDILYWMRFCFAS3V6BI554TOA","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"DFR3XE25HNBGNNUUPMN3GZNL4Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"A3ITAD7UHBG25LS47YFJUNWVDQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"7GZUHDYB7ZBTDB55APPEDNWFZQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"MJK2L6XUT5AQLCJQGB4AF6AUCM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Theodore Edgar McCarrick was born in New York City on July 7, 1930, the only child of Theodore Egan McCarrick and Margaret (McLaughlin) McCarrick. His father, a ship’s captain, died of tuberculosis when the boy was 3, and his mother worked in a Bronx auto parts factory. He was an altar boy in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan, where he grew up.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZIGDCTSIIZHALPNSUVTTNCKRBY","additional_properties":{},"content":"He went to Fordham Preparatory School, then spent a year in Switzerland studying languages. He also resolved to become a priest. He attended Fordham University and St Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy in 1954 and a master’s in history in 1958. He was ordained by Cardinal Francis Spellman of New York in 1958.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FSVBP7HVSBGAHOYNIDSW2GI46E","additional_properties":{},"content":"At The Catholic University of United States in Washington, he earned a master’s in social science in 1960 and a doctorate in sociology in 1963. From 1965 to 1969, he was president of the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico. Recalled to New York, he became an education aide to Cardinal Terence Cooke for two years and his private secretary for six years.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MWSNN3PCN5BK7OBF6USVMTJYOA","additional_properties":{},"content":"In 1976, he met Cardinal Karol Wojtyla of Poland, the future Pope John Paul II, who was visiting New York as part of a trip to attend the International Eucharistic Congress held that year in Philadelphia. In 1977, Pope Paul VI named him auxiliary bishop of New York, and in 1981, John Paul made him the first bishop of Metuchen, a new diocese in New Jersey, where he founded parishes and outreach programmes for Black and Hispanic Catholics.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OUKTBJSITNBV3DBKMAZQCSH6VQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Named archbishop of Newark, New Jersey, in 1986, he presided for 14 years over 1.3 million Catholics in four counties. He developed programmes to help HIV victims and combat drug abuse. In the 1990s, after the fall of Soviet communism, he visited Poland, Romania, Russia and war-torn republics of the former Yugoslavia.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2U6PQJUTLZDDVPJLO3JXLPIR64","additional_properties":{},"content":"McCarrick investigated human rights violations on two missions to Bosnia. In 1992, he saw destroyed towns and throngs of refugees, and under rocket and artillery fire he was nearly taken hostage at a border crossing. In 1994, he inspected war-crime scenes and was detained by Serbian gunmen. He also went to Rwanda, where more than 800,000 Tutsi had been slaughtered by Hutu militias. Clinton presented him with the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights in 2000.","type":"text"},{"_id":"22ECVKSDY5EDZCAYTH6HQ65WMU","additional_properties":{},"content":"After retiring in 2006, McCarrick lived in Washington, occasionally travelling abroad as an unofficial Vatican ambassador. He spoke at a graveside service for Senator Edward M Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery in 2009.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6GSYVMUQZBCORABP2VZLXOYAP4","additional_properties":{},"content":"In 2013, he passed out while celebrating Mass at St Peter’s Basilica in Rome, was diagnosed with a heart problem and had a pacemaker installed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"22VGQO5GWRH3JJLU4PGXLFMRFE","additional_properties":{},"content":"On June 20, 2018, he was thrust back into the spotlight when the Archdiocese of New York announced that he had been removed from the ministry after an inquiry affirmed accusations that he had long ago sexually abused an altar boy at St Patrick’s Cathedral.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WNUFL2U3ERDPXIT2AR2LVWPVKY","additional_properties":{},"content":"The allegations had been made months earlier by the victim, a married businessman in New Jersey who asked to remain anonymous, to the archdiocese’s Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Program, which since its inception in 2016 had paid out $55 million to settle sexual abuse cases out of court.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M4ZXH5KJMFFTNAPHEYZGMQCMJA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Patrick Noaker, a lawyer for the man, said that in 1971, his client had been a student at Cathedral Preparatory School and Seminary in Queens, hoping to become a priest. He was selected to serve at the Christmas Mass at St Patrick’s Cathedral, a prestigious honour, and had been summoned to St Patrick’s to be measured for a cassock.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A3IP2WLJUFFGXP3ASLVKY6DT3Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"In the cathedral sacristy, McCarrick, at the time a Monsignor who was Cooke’s personal secretary, began measuring him. Noaker said that the Monsignor, “under the guise of measuring his inseam, unzipped his pants, and sexually assaulted him,” adding, “The kid had just turned 16, and kind of pulled back, and McCarrick was a little surprised by that.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"64UHZQKRUFFYPJX5IIVRMI566I","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Let’s not tell anyone about this,” the Monsignor told the student, Noaker said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ICS4AFMP5NBSPJ2CWKV5M2TQKE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Over the following year, he said, McCarrick occasionally saw the youth and praised his looks. Selected again in 1972 to be a Christmas Mass altar server, the victim was measured by another man, but McCarrick cornered him in a bathroom, Noaker said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EKHIPH3BA5HGXN4RKO75SDAKIU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“He just came in, grabbed him, shoved his hand into his pants and tried to get his hand into his underwear, and the kid had to struggle and push him away,” the lawyer said. “These were significant sexual assaults.” He said the events had lasting effects on his client, whose life, and plans for the priesthood, “fell apart.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"P3HHGN4L2BBENGPOPQT5MUNMBU","additional_properties":{},"content":"A statute of limitations prevented prosecution in New York, but the cardinal was barred from contact with young people in the Washington Archdiocese, where he lived at a Little Sisters of the Poor retirement home.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7PLMEEAWAZDKRHASC7WNNZJW6M","additional_properties":{},"content":"Pope accepts US cardinal’s resignation following sex abuse scandal","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"BLSK4H57YJEWBGJG3XVLDU6BAU","additional_properties":{},"content":"As others came forward with accounts of sexual abuse by the cardinal against seminarians, the Vatican announced on July 28, 2018, that Pope Francis had accepted his resignation from the College of Cardinals. Later, prohibited from engaging in any public ministry and pending the outcome of canonical charges against him, he was sent to live at the Capuchin St Fidelis Friary in Victoria, Kansas. In 2021, he was reported to be living in Missouri.","type":"text"},{"_id":"65Q3CMKJEZEUJETI6AJWSWMMAM","additional_properties":{},"content":"On February 16th, 2019, the Vatican announced that McCarrick had been found guilty in the canonical trial of several crimes: “Solicitation in the Sacrament of Confession, and sins against the Sixth Commandment with minors and with adults, with the aggravating factor of the abuse of power.” It also said McCarrick had been laicised, stripping him of all priestly identity and revoking church-sponsored resources like housing and financial benefits.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HD2XLLYAQ5CO7DVKLXNM4YVFS4","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"2PNGPNYHI5EIXMLPQ4MBQEYO3A","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"TDGS4YMOE5B2PNNIKQODWBZG6Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"6ZSU36RUAZFQLO7EE2ZRQ3K6N4","additional_properties":{},"content":"This article originally appeared in <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/us/theodore-mccarrick-dead.html\">The New York Times</a>.","type":"text"}],"credits":{"by":[{"name":"Robert D. 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But the firings of key officials at the National Security Council – and Waltz’s apparent failure to protect them – show how much his standing has dwindled.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TKPMY54435AO7GRYDN5EAJ5XNM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743772418779},"content":"Washington insiders say right-wing activists are targeting Waltz because they view him as a classic neoconservative, out of step with the president’s “make America great again” foreign policy agenda.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DLZ7RY3TOJHSHHABOLLNTNPAOE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743772418780},"content":"They say the Maga camp is particularly troubled by Waltz’s support of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/ukraine-crisis/\">Ukraine in its war with Russia</a>, which they see as an obstacle to the rapprochement Trump seeks with Moscow.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U7J3M7VJIFGTZFEEIWLKYLRWL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743772418781},"content":"“These people don’t stop – when they want you out, they keep going,” said an official from Trump’s first administration. “That’s their playbook.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"JN2ETNOOHNGXNG6FOEXK23H5EY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743772418782},"content":"“You’ll see an effort to weaponise social media and the far-right conservative media to attack Waltz,” the former official added. “And the Russians will jump on that and reinforce it.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5Y7BOTGUPJF77CQC4EJNQ2AH5U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743772418783},"content":"The NSC dismissals on Thursday came after Laura Loomer, a far-right activist and conspiracy theorist, met Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday armed with detailed reports on staffers she accused of being disloyal to the president. 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NSC spokesperson Brian Hughes pushed back on the report, saying Waltz had “never sent classified material over his personal email account or any unsecured platform”, though he acknowledged the national security adviser had “received emails and calendar invites from legacy contacts on his personal email”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LOWPS6WV7ZBE3CNRCSSYODD7PM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743772418788},"content":"The Wall Street Journal also reported Waltz had created and hosted multiple conversations on Signal with cabinet members that dealt with sensitive issues of national security, including separate threads on military operations and how to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WGLZEL5RSREJHKXAOWN5S6TTRM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743772418789},"content":"Hughes said Signal was an “approved, encrypted messaging app” and “any claim NSC officials sent classified information over these channels is false”. 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They say the president regretted his decision to fire national security adviser Mike Flynn in his first term, after Flynn admitted lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GXAZZIVKYRGJ7MVVSYXD3HYZ7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743772418791},"content":"But Waltz could still be in trouble. “He’s living on borrowed time,” said one former White House official in Joe Biden’s administration. “He made the government look like idiots, which Trump would not have liked.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"OUOKZPZVIBHHPB6N636JFRGOWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743772418792},"content":"“He doesn’t have a whole lot of get-out-of-jail-free cards left,” said Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a former department of state official.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FM7SWXE2CREZJMW6DW5KOCDWOI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743772418793},"content":"Trump was reportedly less annoyed by the revelations about the Signal chat than by the fact Waltz had the number of Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief at the Atlantic, stored in his list of contacts.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CGARLZHD65ADVIMOP6ZCKNQUWA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743772418794},"content":"Critics say Waltz did not do himself any favours with the strange explanations he gave for the Signal affair. At one point he claimed Goldberg’s contact was “sucked in” to his phone via “somebody else’s contact”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3RU4ZAHSFZHGXAOQ6PFAZYYDDU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743772418795},"content":"Waltz’s troubles are all the more striking in light of the praise heaped on him when Trump tapped him as national security adviser in November.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YHZHCVZSY5DWNHLFTS2FTAEQI4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743772418796},"content":"Decorated with four bronze stars, Waltz was the first Green Beret to be elected to Congress, and served as a special forces officer with multiple combat tours in Afghanistan, the Middle East and Africa.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2VIS5LKL4NBEXA2MKOTVJJ6QGM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743772418797},"content":"Trump hailed him as a “nationally recognised leader in national security, a bestselling author and an expert on the threats posed by China, Russia, Iran and global terrorism”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UFS6UTCS2RFJ7ASDPXSKR7BJDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743772418798},"content":"“Mike is a very well-rounded guy – very smart,” said Peter Bergen, a security analyst at the New America Foundation, who has known Waltz since 2008.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C6KBSDVRVJAGPD4JVWZEBUD2AM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743772418799},"content":"“He served in the Pentagon, in the White House, as a special forces colonel on the battlefield, was a congressman, and also ran a successful business. 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He denounced the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, and espouses hawkish views on Russia, Iran and China that are anathema to some in the more isolationist Maga movement, with its sympathy for autocratic leaders such as Russia’s Vladimir Putin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6WMOUP7XX5BHHFAK7FXMIFQC5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743772418802},"content":"Waltz said in an op-ed in 2023 that Putin was to blame for the war in Ukraine, “like al-Qaeda was to blame for 9/11” – a view that clashes with some of Trump’s recent pronouncements.","type":"text"},{"_id":"63W6VOLYV5COPDN4SZNWJEAIJU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743772418803},"content":"Compared with the president’s other national security picks, “Waltz is more of a traditionalist”, Miller said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AX4OUBMVYVAZBKETDP76RQHMXA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743772418804},"content":"“There’s still a lingering question mark hanging over Waltz,” said one diplomat in Washington. “The knives are definitely out for him.” – Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2025","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"Maga critics circle around hawkish foreign policy adviser who was at centre of ‘Signalgate’ fiasco"},"display_date":"2025-04-04T13:48:05.298Z","headlines":{"basic":"Mike Waltz under increasing pressure as Donald Trump fires national security officials","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"HYDFPQFMWOM4O5YO3PRNWS7FBM","auth":{"1":"202d400ce9c45dd6a0110fbc9c2ca76d5bc815668d9cbf352aaaeba48141ac18"},"focal_point":{"x":795,"y":507},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/HYDFPQFMWOM4O5YO3PRNWS7FBM.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"US"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/us/2025/04/04/mike-waltz-under-increasing-pressure-as-donald-trump-fires-national-security-officials/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/us","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"US"}}}},{"_id":"DH7HIPKEPFBXVNZ6CIJQIOYU6A","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":302,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/16d87246-e165-4802-a28b-556186d15bb1/versions/1743787255/media/123197be441521e54fef93fc8f3514c3_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/world/asia-pacific/2025/04/04/south-korean-court-removes-impeached-president-from-office/","content_elements":[{"_id":"NM4PM4LBPFGB7FAM4P3OZOQMHU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/south-korea/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/south-korea/\">South Korea</a>’s president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/yoon-suk-yeol/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/yoon-suk-yeol/\">Yoon Suk Yeol</a> has been removed from office, four months after his short-lived <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/asia-pacific/2025/01/15/south-korea-yoon-suk-yeol-president-arrest-impeached-rebellion/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/asia-pacific/2025/01/15/south-korea-yoon-suk-yeol-president-arrest-impeached-rebellion/\">attempt to impose martial law</a> sparked a prolonged political crisis.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G3L4NK2BJ5AITAOK4TIDPNJFU4","additional_properties":{},"content":"The constitutional court on Friday announced in a unanimous verdict that it would uphold parliament’s vote to impeach Mr Yoon last year over his failed power grab, stripping him of office and ending his presidency less than three years into his five-year term.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UFGCZFK7S5ARDF5GZ2HJHULOAU","additional_properties":{},"content":"A presidential election will be held within 60 days. 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He denies any wrongdoing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OBQUKE7MIFDUTGNZGQFWAZABTQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The landmark verdict, which marks the second time a South Korean president has been impeached and removed from office in under a decade, comes as Asia’s fourth-largest economy wrestles with sluggish growth and deepening political polarisation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NY7IGP3AFVD75BJAIYC7IGX6R4","additional_properties":{},"content":"In light of heightened tensions in recent months and violence at some pro-Yoon protests, there was a heavy police presence on the streets of Seoul on Friday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OX4NLQDDKBDB3FRS4XIASBBOOE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The verdict was met with loud cheers from anti-Yoon demonstrators gathered outside the court. “There is hope for this country as we overthrew a dictator and will elect a new leader,” said Ahn Eung-soo, a 72-year-old retiree. “People will have a better life.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3GOLMG55JFGEJIL25PRJWGPNDU","additional_properties":{},"content":"But Kim Young-kyu, a 61-year-old retiree and Yoon supporter, described the court as “politicised” and its ruling as “not logical”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UP6OH5S6WFA43DQ5BHJPLPJ3MA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I will continue to protest for our country,” he said. “Yoon should be at the forefront of our efforts to evict anti-state forces.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"CEASU2XZHZFBXBD767AFHW656Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"Near the court, some Yoon supporters vandalised police vehicles, while others chanted death threats against Lee Jae-myung, the leader of the leftwing opposition Democratic Party and the frontrunner in the race to succeed Yoon. 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I’m not sure we know enough yet to determine how things will work out,” he said, the morning after the United States president announced a 20 per cent tariff on imports from the European Union.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JZDOCOAHXFBZ7EFZ4LM3XTT344","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714048971},"content":"“I feel it’s a waiting game really, it could take a few weeks or months even to notice any effects,” said the shopkeeper who sells Irish produce including Kerrygold, which already retails at about 80 per cent above prices in Ireland due to import costs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E2DIJDPBYZEQRCA6KDRJEHQMRQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714048972},"content":"“Some of our orders, for example, take up to six or eight weeks from when we order them, to [when they arrive on the shelves]”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S4SXECT2F5H75CYUHWC76X4UBU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714048973},"content":"It is not yet possible to determine how much other businesses, such as the bar and restaurant industry, will be affected, with the exporting of Irish whiskeys especially being mentioned in economic conversation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MIKEITZ54NBAHD6X7UZGYKO37E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714048974},"content":"Dubliner Joe Byrne, who has a business interest in a number of bars in Queens and Manhattan, says: “It’s hard to accept it as reality with him [Trump], until it actually happens, and that’s when we’ll get to see these cost differences. 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Now there might be even more reason to do that,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5OIIZSO5CJBZZJOYOHLJO6MIFU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714048977},"content":"Chris Lambe, originally from Leixlip, Co Kildare, is a climate consultant who has been based in the US for several years. “From a consumption perspective, the tariffs don’t bother me,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PR4ILUSP7FGNXFNMAJ5M2XPDLI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714048978},"type":"image"},{"_id":"4E5MFGI3PFBYRGXQ2VE4OTNVCU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714048979},"content":"“There’s a reasonable American alternative for most things, the exception maybe being wine. What bothers me is this is a manufactured crisis. Completely unnecessary, but to what end? With Trump, you always have to try to guess the endgame. What will he use this crisis to achieve?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BACQNUCJD5DSRCK3D3R4U7DXKU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714048980},"content":"Jokingly, he added: “At the same time, I’m glad <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/australia/2025/04/03/trump-tariffs-australia-uninhabited-islands/\" target=\"_self\">he put a tariff on uninhabited Antarctic islands</a>. Those penguins have been ripping us off for years.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"C2WVKBYJFVBL7GHXWDLHHL3BUM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714048981},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"EPRS2DCYFRGMFOKI2AMTXMMKJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714048982},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"EHPX4ALWCBDCPGAK2ZEYK762PU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714048983},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"HS433ZYDNRGUZHORALRVXI6HVA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Further north in Boston, importers of Irish speciality goods are assessing the potential impact of tariffs with a mix of concern and cautious optimism.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L7Z2AXWMF5DYVEDPMKVA4L2ELY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Cindy Quinn, who owns Greenhills Irish Bakery in Dorchester with her husband Dermot, originally from Co Offaly, worries that specialty items like Kerrygold butter are “pricey enough already”. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"GHANLUOOQFF2VP4H4KFBQCFJSM","additional_properties":{},"content":"The bakery specialises in soda bread, scones and tea, catering to the longstanding local community of Irish immigrants in Dorchester centre. Most of the baked goods will not be impacted, says Quinn, save for the treacle in the treacle bread, which she procures from an Irish importer. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"3JYV3TUXXNGFHEA5BHCCAMOGHQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The grocery story also sells a small grocery selection of Irish goods, Barry’s tea being the number one selling item. Customers will likely see an increase in the price, says Quinn. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"KOX2LX2FGVBVVAH6DAKOVLKENA","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"KTYDXWEHAVEX3LGO6OBF3FCVRQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Tricia Burns, the manager of the bakery and originally from Belfast, is less concerned. People will “pay anything to have something from home”, she says. “They don’t really care what price it is so long as they’re getting it.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"DQN7R2UYTBCKZKKXDFJLJMOINY","additional_properties":{},"content":"At the Eire Pub across the street, where they serve Guinness and a wide variety of Irish whiskeys, Co Kerry native John Curran, and a bartender at the establishment for more than a decade, is not too worried either. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"4FXRYDJYS5A5FBHFXDYGH5H7WI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I don’t think it’s going to last long,” says Curran of the newly imposed tariffs. “I think this is all going to come out in the wash.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"N7XJSMYALFGCRACS7B7HJZPTSI","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"FILHPPR7BZBRXHPMUVJJ7YRE7E","additional_properties":{},"content":"At Casali’s Market next door, manager Mohammed Zaman says business is already bad. Casali’s Market sells a wide range of Irish goods, including Kerrygold and Tayto crisps. They also sell Crunchie bars, Maltesers, and other imported chocolates favoured by their Irish clientele. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"7GADACCUD5AZ3JERHVDJEMXPVE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“People used to spend money, right now they don’t spend money,” says Zaman, citing the rising American egg prices. “They don’t have money for Irish candy.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"7RV5QF4CAJFY5OWKO5NVEMQL4M","additional_properties":{},"content":"Dhruv “Lucky” Patel, 40, owner of the Lucky Shamrock grocery store in Quincy, says he and his family have been catering to the Irish community for 25 years, initially in Dorchester. His store sells Kerrygold butter, as well as Donnelly bacon, McCloskey’s baked goods, Green Isle potato waffles and hash browns, among other imports. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"2TC5JOHALJAO5HBG77XX3TJ6GI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“If I want it, I want it,” says Duffy, pushing a cart through Lucky Shamrock full of Batchelors peas, frozen loaves of Pat The Baker bread, and three large tubs of Kerrygold. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"X5O7HTLYHNDUVA4IXYMMZRA5AU","additional_properties":{},"content":"When it comes to butter, her family “won’t eat nothing else”. 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However, he said the State now needs to focus on factors that we can control, including improving our competitiveness and investing in infrastructure”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CHDUU6AHIVGFRGSMMMW27FSSVU","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"VQTOR4QUMRAH7H4ZN6BVDQXZWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863276},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743661362935},"id":"timestamp-70633","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"7QJYA4ZQSFHDLGXQI7BOYSHW6A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331138},"content":"What we are expecting this morning","type":"header"},{"_id":"DMW2ZWBNKJH7FJ2NZ2QAZBTWVU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863278},"content":"Tánaiste Simon Harris will be speaking at around 7.30am giving his first detailed reaction to the tariffs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4BMY6UTZKJDL7HREGKZKDXRUOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863279},"content":"The European Commission is expected to also set out this morning the process by which the EU will respond to the tariffs, and begin to scope out the retaliatory measures that will be taken.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BGMQKKBRPZDNFF5MZ3NTCZFHNA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863280},"content":"Already most of Mr Trump’s cabinet has been out (mainly on Fox News) giving details of measures and future measures. Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary, has been chiding the EU over the trade barriers on US agricultural products.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PVJ45SGH4REH7NAWJC7ZJ2V66I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863281},"content":"He has come out with this outlandish statement.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZCSTPXMY4ZG45I2HW5AA4FZHMY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331143},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"KBETXD6IIZB2TGXEWFXVFNSZMA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863284},"content":"Two words come to mind. Hormones. Chlorinated.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4N5ZTTGWJBFDTLXD66ULT7JVXI","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"VDNRVNIJ2VH6NM6I3YDD7F32TE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863287},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743661955704},"id":"timestamp-55961","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"SQHU23XIL5EQJG2XILLQVH3CCM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331147},"content":"Here’s how The Irish Times has covered the overnight news.","type":"header"},{"_id":"YTKF4TWZ4BEE7ERK3DJNGGZKIY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863289},"content":"The <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/04/03/trump-promises-new-dawn-for-us-economy-as-eu-says-it-is-prepared-to-respond-with-countermeasures/\" target=\"_self\">main story</a> by Pat Leahy this morning focuses on the statement by <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/ursula-von-der-leyen/\">Ursula von der Leyen</a> that the EU is prepared to respond with countermeasures if talks to Washington fail.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XTIDTQ43MND2RCYGMB6W4VLPQI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863290},"content":"While the 20 per cent tariff will be broadly applied to Irish exports, there does seem to be a reprieve for the significant pharma sector there.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RE5YM3XNEJBCZFT5AYO67ZMNCA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863291},"content":"“Material released by the White House last night suggested that pharmaceuticals may not be covered by the so-called “reciprocal tariffs”, which would be a considerable relief to Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CLQM2QVAFFB4BPFP5PI3MSXSDY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863292},"content":"“Mr Trump has previously said the pharma sector could be subjected to specific, dedicated tariffs, though there was no mention of this in his speech.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"P3FY33GDMJH3LLS5YGBQHKCUCM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863293},"content":"Cliff Taylor’s <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/04/02/trumps-tariffs-what-do-they-mean-for-ireland/?\" target=\"_self\">analysis does not mince its words</a>. “It will take some time to play out. But there is no doubt that the sweeping tariffs announced on Wednesday evening in the White House pose a significant economic threat to this State and particularly to investment, jobs and tax revenues.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3HVB25647NEYBANOI7TJVC26WU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863294},"content":"He also teases out the implications the disparity between the tariffs imposed on Ireland and those levied on the UK (20 per cent versus 10 per cent) will have on the Windsor Framework.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F7GEH4CDPRBKLG52TQUR6FTUNU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863295},"content":"US correspondent Keith Duggan has <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/04/03/donald-trump-us-tariffs-liberation-day/\" target=\"_self\">a wonderful article evoking the showmanship of Trump</a> but also saying his instincts deserted him. He particularly honed in on the “sad little chart” held up by Howard Lutnick for all the class to see.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6NDEHMLSYRA37KJZNWTPKSX6FQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863296},"content":"Finally, the political digest (published soon) will look at how an economic announcement was made to look like an amateur drama group’s production of the ‘The Greatest Showman’.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EGXCGBQH25EZHEJR2U2OYLWQEU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863297},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743662607677},"id":"timestamp-4754","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"DMRFNG3UXBFRJAQEFVIK25G3BE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331157},"content":"Ibec’s Danny McCoy highlights implications which tariff disparity with UK will have for Windsor Framework and for Northern Ireland","type":"header"},{"_id":"EWK6I6LJA5CIZGF342E2Q7AIWE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863300},"content":"<i>Vivienne Clarke writes: </i>Danny McCoy of Ibec has warned that Trump’s tariffs could have implications for the Windsor Framework.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B4VRJ4LO3BDZZJMMB5WBGHJ75U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863301},"content":"“I think that one thing we have to really see though is the fact that the UK have a 10 per cent tariff and the EU 20 per cent. This has implications for the Windsor Framework and for the no border on the island of Ireland,” told RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland","type":"text"},{"_id":"HDA5WADU4NDTBMFMJML5RNICWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863302},"content":"“I think this is a very serious issue. And it’s not just what Trump has done, it’s how we retaliate back. If the UK do nothing and the EU come with a 20 per cent tariff, that’ll make it even more complicated.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"UWB5RXM52VEYLPKHR4YFJXKJ7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863303},"content":"When asked what he wanted the Government to do in response to the tariffs, Mr McCoy said: “We’ve been here before with Covid and with Brexit and so some of the measures that we know is state supports are going to be required for those whose demand will go down quite dramatically as a result of these price movements.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KXGDT5YTNNFGDPOUQFRVSP5R3Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863304},"content":"“Their workers may need to go on short-time working, we need to have the welfare payments to keep them attached to their employer, not to put them into unemployment. So these kind of shocks that we get, we thought we might get with Brexit, with ports being closed etc. We have the arsenal to do it, we’ll be talking to the Government in the next couple of hours and again tomorrow on many of those different forums. So I think the Government and business can work through this, I’d be calm enough on that front.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"WYMIG4MBYNH23FYFWEB4BLS4ZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863305},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743663246172},"id":"timestamp-7171","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"XYYZWG7PKVEOLCGGSZ2TI2WSUI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331164},"content":"The infamous Chart","type":"header"},{"_id":"N4GQKXBIRVFSTCIV5VBNTWW2WY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863308},"content":"So Mr Trump and his cabinet based the actual percentage level of tariff on individual countries on what the US perceived as the trade barriers imposed on it by those countries. Mr Trump said that the US would be reasonable and apply only half.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4F7N5LG7NFCKFLIO43UUMUONHU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863309},"content":"It seems that many of the countries that supply clothes and textiles to the US were hardest hit, some with extraordinarily punitive tariffs. They include Myanmar which is trying to respond to the catastrophic damage and huge death toll caused by last weekend’s earthquake.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7AA4B4XKUZDSFKIXXDMPEI35RY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863310},"content":"Vietnam was hit by 46 per cent; Cambodia by 49 per cent, Sri Lanka and Myanmar by 44 per cent, Madagascar by 47 per cent, and Laos by 48 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UJQNYDQORMGAPR3BDRLWJKSTTU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863311},"type":"image"},{"_id":"U4EMYMM3YFEKRCTDVZQXZTXVN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863312},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743663743274},"id":"timestamp-4382","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"3332R3JLRFBJRCL755T5PK7MFI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331170},"content":"Sinn Féin warns against any knee-jerk reaction","type":"header"},{"_id":"CG3673UWUJFGNEBPVZSN7HWKLM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863314},"content":"Vivienne Clarke reports: Sinn Féin’s finance spokesman Pearse Doherty has called for cool heads and a focus on Irish national interests.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DJFVAM5N3ZDCXEQN3DM43R6CCU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863315},"content":"There should not be a knee-jerk reaction, he told RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland. The Irish Government has a role to play here, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JKS3CZNBCBHTLH56ZZY6MXMEXM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863316},"content":"“EU counter measures could be as damaging, we need to be very careful. A tariff anywhere on the island of Ireland would not be good,” he said in response to the different tariff imposed on the UK.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ATEFKPOPNBEILFCBZ24MZQ7EX4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863317},"content":"“What we’re seeing very clearly is what all the economists have looked at, which is Donald Trump’s tariffs are going to be damaging for the Irish economy, for jobs, for the public finances, but the countermeasures will also be damaging if they are put in place by Europe. So they will push up prices for Irish consumers, they will risk more jobs in Ireland, and they will reduce the finances that we have in terms of tax take, in terms of the public finances.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5QAXBT2LTVG3FAA2FWWHWFGVIE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863318},"content":"“This has to be resolved and we need to look at the policy of de-escalation and the only reason you should counter our continent’s countermeasures is if you believe that it would bring the American administration to the table and allow for a de- escalation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KULADE6CTJCABCZWXKDJATZRMY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863319},"content":"“We have to have a clear eye at what is important. We need to focus on Irish national interest. Remember, while we do have influence in relation counter tariffs, we will not be able to dictate it. So we could have a situation where countermeasures from Europe could actually be as damaging as what Donald Trump has announced. So we have to be very very careful here and not knee-jerk into any situation in relation to this.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TQ2WUAOYJBAOZKQHZ4OJYM5WH4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863320},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743664099230},"id":"timestamp-89850","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"NRC4WNBNA5F67EE63EBLEFXFBY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331178},"content":"Political Digest","type":"header"},{"_id":"CMDDZBMYN5BDHNFRO4Y7BDNV5M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863322},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/04/03/ireland-on-alert-after-trump-imposes-tariffs-but-relieved-over-pharma-exclusion/\">The Inside Politics Digest</a> has been published and takes us through last night’s announcement and its implications.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TIBFZLKTN5BJJJAT3TI2QSMN4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863323},"content":"Like Keith Duggan’s piece, it also looks at Trump’s shabby showmanship.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QGAXNQ4ZPZH47EC6MT2MM2OGVI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331181},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"PAWXQ777URBDZIHNOJK2DRCXHE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863325},"content":"Read the entire digest <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/04/03/ireland-on-alert-after-trump-imposes-tariffs-but-relieved-over-pharma-exclusion/\" target=\"_self\">here</a> or in your inbox.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C7OZ7ZEJCKDC5TU3JWAR4QPN7A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863326},"type":"image"},{"_id":"65O4JK5PWRESFH6IE5WCFR4VWQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863327},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743664807411},"id":"timestamp-25848","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"E6M5NLR2H5AWBA5CVPQ2IPXOYM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331185},"content":"European Union response to US tariffs","type":"header"},{"_id":"VA2TGWSMW5CKJHG7MPBK4SFS7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863329},"content":"The EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen is now speaking live about how Europe will respond to the tariffs of 20 per cent tariff imposed by the Trump administration on exports to the US.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X724EKUXCBDM7CA6CNH6RYX5GQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863330},"content":"In a long statement she has been saying that the tariffs are a big blow and the “consequences will be dire for millions of people around the globe.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"SXUA23U7EZE2HCWTHX7CR62UYA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863331},"content":"She said that some of the countries that will be affected most are among the poorest countries.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7YHG56CKGFCD5PQ47K6K5E6YLY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863332},"content":"She has vowed that Europe will respond and will protect its interests and values.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AOHZZQOW7RFPPBEWMCZR7LXIJ4","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"CHTL4YIHIRAF7BLDATTXORET7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863335},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743665623640},"id":"timestamp-20678","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"OK5ILFUN7BFAXBTDLK66RX4HY4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331192},"content":"China promises to take ‘resolute countermeasures’.","type":"header"},{"_id":"LR5XHV257JEARPCDJRYT7K5ISY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863338},"content":"<i>Denis Staunton reports</i>: China vowed to respond to Donald Trump’s move to impose an extra tariff of 34 per cent on the country’s exports to the United States, yet stopped short of announcing retaliatory levies for now. “China firmly opposes the move and will take resolute countermeasures to safeguard its legitimate rights and interests,” the country’s commerce ministry said in a statement.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5O63JNITJ5EL7GWRX4OHTWNAPI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863339},"content":"Market analysts estimate the 34 per cent tariff announced on Wednesday brings the new effective tariff on Chinese goods entering the US as between 65 and 70 per cent. Notably, Trump also ordered the abolition from May 2 of an exemption on duties for packages valued below $800. That is likely to have impact the likes of Temu and Shein. The US is China’s biggest export market but its share has diminished in recent years as exports to southeast Asia and other parts of the Global South have grown.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GRIOJJ6WNRHY3BHVORQJJXKUBM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863340},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743665741670},"id":"timestamp-31208","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"EQZC7POQ5ZCD5GK4ETNFXW4C4Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331196},"content":"Michael O’Leary describes tariffs as “insane” and predicts a recession in the US.","type":"header"},{"_id":"HQ7HZRLZX5HBZL5XJU6MJWHC7Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863342},"content":"<i>Vivenne Clarke reports: </i>Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary has said that America has shot themselves in the foot the same as the UK did with Brexit.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CMK4EAVVNJFCBEH6MDHCMISOFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863343},"content":"“The sooner they get intelligent politicians back in power the better” he told Newstalk Breakfast.","type":"text"},{"_id":"23OLXFACNBENTI7JIPOJRQN4C4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863344},"content":"“I have little doubt that the idiotic tariffs are doomed to fail. But we shouldn’t underestimate Trump’s ability to move and change his mind. And I suspect there will be lots of changes in these tariffs in the coming days.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4SLKPCMSMZAITJPB5TLAEVMNUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863345},"content":"“We’re entering a period of huge uncertainty, we are entering a period where US consumers are going to be the victims of this insane tariff scheme. All we can do in Ireland and in Europe is continue to trade with each other.","type":"text"},{"_id":"77CRFLZGYBG2LHOYHOAZ75OS64","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863346},"content":"“I think it also puts pressure on the European Union and Ireland to be much more competitive. We can’t afford to be shooting ourselves in the foot with these kind of idiotic measures when Trump is doing such damage to the worldwide economy.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"I2XGTASERJG3TN55TUXFOO3NQI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863347},"content":"Mr O’Leary said it was inevitable that there would be reciprocal tariffs from the EU","type":"text"},{"_id":"B5YLO3WVQ5G4POGYKETIWG7R6A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863348},"content":"“Europe has to have some response. Europe has a big trade deficit in manufacturing. Europe will move closer together in terms of trade ties.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TAP5XBC7VNARFFIUG3YWLAMN64","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863349},"content":"Mr O’Leary also predicted that the tariffs would result in a recession in the USA.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VTWDDVCXUVH2HDGKDZ2HSMJUIU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863350},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743666345665},"id":"timestamp-78920","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"QJULETDMVBBB5DSOALCDKXJHMY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331206},"content":"Brush up on Your Leaving Certificate Calculus","type":"header"},{"_id":"3JZDKNGKONC7RFOEW3URWZOUXY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863353},"content":"A shock reacquaintance with Greek symbols as the US undersecretary for Trade released the formula used by the US to arrive at its tariffs. As Gavin Reilly, Virgin Media’s renaissance man notes, the starting point for the calculations is the trade deficit, not the actual tariff applied by those countries.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SQXAG66V7RHRBLGLGJ4LWF23TE","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"2KGX7U4IK5A7DKOP7E2VJZVLO4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863355},"content":"For a further discussion on the maths of it you can follow this Twitter discussion.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DP6BEDAZ7JAZZOIEBJHPHVSNXU","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"7G3HMVXR2RCENNNHOFQ4KE2NFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863357},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743666810016},"id":"timestamp-76034","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"CQFKDMXQRNBBLIRUSRB4TDMTMM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331212},"content":"Negotiations to ramp up between EU capitals and commission","type":"header"},{"_id":"TIIJBKEF25ERZC3AWS23QN2PLI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863359},"content":"Trump has put his cards on the table and now the European Union will have to decide how firmly to respond, <i>writes Europe correspondent Jack Power.</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"YSO6TB2SGBFR7CBPMMPCJUCJGM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863360},"content":"European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen this morning said there seemed to be “no order in the disorder” of Trump’s tariffs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PYXEVXZDJBGDNPJK5UL7TZIGLA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863361},"content":"The European Commission, the EU executive body that sets the bloc’s trade policy, had already been preparing to hit €26 billion worth of US goods with tariffs, in response to import taxes Trump previously levied on steel and aluminium last month.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YMO3L5RTRVBM5ACP2B74WUNZN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863362},"content":"What US products and industries will be targeted has been the subject of intense lobbying. Ireland has pushed back against plans to hit US bourbon with tariffs, for fears that would draw even higher tariffs on things like Irish whiskey in retribution. France has also raised concerns, to protect its exports of wine and champagne from steep tariffs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NRS2R2A5M5CTVOB25KOPABEDHY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863363},"content":"There is some talk in Brussels circles that this lobbying effort to remove bourbon from the products targeted in EU counter-tariffs has been successful. One source said EU states would likely vote on a final list of US products to hit next week.","type":"text"},{"_id":"STNUZF2BTZG4ZKMK2OQZ6LK3TU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863364},"content":"In response to Trump’s wide ranging 20 per cent tariffs announced yesterday, the commission will put together a further package of tariffs on US trade.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EOU3623G7BCEBMGTFTCFCVFSBA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863365},"content":"The tariffs on all EU imports did not include pharmaceutical exports, however import duties aimed at that sector are expected to follow at some point.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LDO3UWLIX5H2ZDAUAG7434DYHI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863366},"content":"Pharmaceuticals account for a huge portion of Ireland’s exports to the US. The Government will want to keep pharma trade out of the fray as long as possible. That will mean lobbying to make sure EU retaliatory tariffs do not hit US pharma exports. Ireland will have some friends here, Belgium, Denmark and others are likely to share the same view.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HGQDJ3ZMLFE4NLE4RQ6Y3CQEYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863367},"content":"Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Simon Harris will sit down with other EU trade ministers on Monday. The manner of the response to US tariffs will dominate the agenda.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YKQJPRZTIZA5VAG2AUVCTHMWHA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863368},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743667250008},"id":"timestamp-18270","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"626PQAQ6WNA4VDP3XMKGCYLGTA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331223},"content":"Tánaiste says working assumption is that US tariffs will be applied on pharmaceuticals","type":"header"},{"_id":"WCA72YD3DNENZHGUDYTB5QN5GA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863370},"content":"Tánaiste Simon Harris has said it is the Government’s “working assumption” there will be further US tariffs focused on pharmaceuticals.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KOVMED6ZPNH2RHCZEEPTV2ASFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863371},"content":"Speaking outside Government Buildings this morning, Mr Harris said that Mr Trump had to be taken at his work. Mr Trump had said he intended to impose tariffs on the EU, said Mr Harris, and has done that. He said the president has also vowed sectoral tariffs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KYTSIUWTBREC3HLGJMVKB2TP6A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863372},"content":"“He’s also been very clear that there’s a number of sectors that he wants to take specific measures in relation to. Steel and aluminium, he’s already done. The car industry he’s already done and he’s indicated semiconductors and lumber and pharma.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3567UMWO3VAINOEQD5DR2QLQRQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863373},"content":"“Therefore, my working assumption has to be that there will be further measures directed at pharma, or at least that that’s the intention of the US administration,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OSXNJHQERVFNTCYTPHJ7O6ZNDU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863374},"content":"Mr Harris said that 80 per cent produced by pharmaceutical companies in Ireland were not finished products. “They’re commodities that actually go back into US factories, create jobs for people to pay taxes there.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"T6C36BOQJVFY7BEJGJANMPUMJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863375},"content":"There is also a concern that part of the retaliatory measures being considered by the EU include tariffs on pharma.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WKRPA2PSABHEPGBBANS54HRNVY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863376},"content":"Mr Harris pointed out that a number of EU countries also have strong pharmaceutical presences, including Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BQX7QLJLHRD7RM3YQRFV4PFJPA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863377},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743667764905},"id":"timestamp-13311","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"LHZVTYVKFJFZJMSJB7CW7RDMRY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331232},"content":"Time for Europe to strengthen itself says McGuinness","type":"header"},{"_id":"YC23RPWQPFAOZABEDJG3WSCBPI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863379},"content":"Former EU Commissioner Mairead McGuinness has been speaking to RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, <i>write Vivienne Clarke.</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"UFG5DRRSDJAPVOE5ORVN7XQJAI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863380},"content":"She has said: “We are in a different world, but the order has been upended But we are capable of dealing with this. Notwithstanding the worry, you just have to be calm and measured in the worst of times and these are difficult times.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TJEEWHZM7JCHJPXYAZUWK74GP4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863381},"content":"“I think the EU is already using the time we have, both past and in the future, to avert anything that escalates to a global trade war.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6MFD64P26ZDVLBXT7O3I5CYCTM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863382},"content":"“This is a time for Europe. to realise the new world order and to strengthen ourselves so that we can face into this. And I think that’s what we’re likely to hear later on from the European Commission. But we don’t come to this from a vulnerable position. We are strong and we have to actually believe that and work towards resolving this hopefully through negotiation.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5STJBDYNMRFTJM4XCFZ4YD3TYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863383},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743668104106},"id":"timestamp-29020","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"2JJ5FH5PRFG3JNSXHMWENS2UKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863384},"content":"A brilliant illustration of the new North-South divide.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PK6IV5QZLJHH5GETBFRI33RKHA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863385},"content":"The 10 per cent difference in tariff between North and South is going to be problematic. This post on X from JP Campbell tells it all.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SHQIFI2IY5FH5N3VO337WLTREY","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"ZGI5HNLWERGGVODTSBFRCX66G4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863388},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743668961348},"id":"timestamp-31116","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"P53GY3VNZFAWRPFZAGZYFNO4FM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331242},"content":"Reaction from other European leaders","type":"header"},{"_id":"TSDWNEK67JF2XIWXTT3RMRU2GE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863390},"content":"Italian prime minister <b>Giorgia Meloni</b>, a close ally of Donald Trump, expressed strong criticism of the tariffs saying they were wrong.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7NRN5I247JHD33UYI27OV5HZXI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863391},"type":"image"},{"_id":"EHK3VCWJJJFJXN46PLJFTEMYUE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863392},"content":"“They are a measure that I consider to be wrong and not in the interests of either party.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y4SXG637U5FA5FAI47MHGYWCGM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863393},"content":"She said the focus now was on avoiding a trade war that would lead to the weakening of western economies.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QRD43RQSQBB2NKBMMHEB4KC6PQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863394},"content":"French president <b>Emmanuel Macron</b> has said he will convene a meeting later this afternoon of all the sectors in France that will be impacted by the tariffs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QDAXTUWXXFCHLO44LWJUM6Y64I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863395},"content":"The tariffs went against the principle of free enterprise that has been the foundation of western economies, said Swedish prime minister <b>Ulf Kristersson</b>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IBW3G56KOJC3DDH3RVD4HL34DM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863396},"content":"UK prime minister <b>Keir Starme</b>r said there would be an economic impact from the measures. He said his Government would react with “cool and calm heads”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"APYB2SYOS5FZREPTXUOA4PYHJA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863397},"content":"“Nobody wins in a trade war. That is not in our national interest,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IVICOW47ANCHFFIHYTRCUGKI3Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863398},"content":"Prime minister<b> Pedro Sánchez</b> said Spain remained committed to an open world but would take measures to protect its workers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HCOOFINI5FBRLLM5456F2YEIOA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863399},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743669996211},"id":"timestamp-46625","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"33YYIUDAHNC7FP4FY4EFT4KSLI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331253},"content":"Global trade landscape now changed, says Minister for Finance","type":"header"},{"_id":"5FWDIUV67RCG3NDHFVTGYFX2RQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863401},"content":"Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe has said that “the global economic landscape is changed” in the wake of the US tariffs, <i>Marie O’Halloran writes</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"BCRP6UVNYZDUPKIDNMPYYDFZB4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863402},"content":"Speaking in the Dáil he said his department and the ESRI will begin modelling the impact of the tariffs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KSYENZMGPJBD3FGRSFVHU5OT3I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863403},"content":"He said they would first engage with the EU, engage with companies in Ireland and, hopefully, begin negotiations with the US administration “to see if we can avoid the dark and more damaging scenarios coming to pass”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UMEINAKI5NEVLKXTE6T3APR7EY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863404},"content":"He was responding during finance questions to Sinn Féin spokesman Pearse Doherty and Social Democrats’ Cian O’Callaghan.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4LQ5E3K6PRF65GUCH7IDJWOSFY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863405},"content":"“I’ve been making the point that at the basis of what we know at the moment, we are moving into a scenario of lower growth and lower employment growth.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FZHECRK7C5DV5FMS2HIECWIKNQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863406},"content":"“But I’ve been equally clear, there are other scenarios that could affect us, which is why in the time ahead, what is critical is we look at how we can negotiate with the US to see if we can avoid the dark and more damaging scenarios coming to pass.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6I45MMNA75AVDP4H5ENUY7NKME","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863407},"content":"He said the measures put in place by Mr Trump “are ones that will not only affect the economy of the world, will have a significant effect on the economy of America as well”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PXCCY7LO65CVFJE3N5WKUFHOOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863408},"content":"President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen “has been very clear in outlining the fact that we want to negotiate and we want to see if we can find the scenario in which jobs are not further affected, in which incomes are not further affected”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B7ASSPAV3NGJHBE7K2QIHJDMCM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863409},"content":"Mr Donohoe said that the progress made on inflation had been “jeopardised”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TVCXIBR2XZCAJK36GJNNURDCXM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863410},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743670298517},"id":"timestamp-96223","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"AKZBRBZ4FNHFRAQ3AP3PV7SJ4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331264},"content":"Immediate retaliation would be a mistake, says Bertie Ahern","type":"header"},{"_id":"WJTJ2E4PYRBQDA2PA4QQSPHVKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863412},"content":"Former taoiseach Bertie Ahern has said he hoped the EU does not “jump into retaliation” over the US tariffs, <i>writes Vivienne Clarke.</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"BWUJNEYG5ZBATIGJB2PVW6JBZA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863413},"content":"“That would be a mistake,” he told Pat Kenny on Newstalk.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OKAGBR63KZANFICMIRO42W3JDM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863414},"content":"Mr Ahern said it appeared the US president Donald Trump “isn’t big into detail”, his approach was “almost laughable if it wasn’t so important.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"JUHID4KZRZBVHDH5OW6W6633AQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863415},"content":"The people behind the scenes apparently did not appreciate details either, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IIVTDT7NLFCKPEYZMAEQWV5G5M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863416},"content":"Mr Ahern also said he was still worried about the pharma sector as there could be long term 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Post-Brexit, under the Windsor Framework, goods coming into Northern Ireland are treated as imports to the EU, which means any reciprocal tariffs imposed by the bloc on US goods will affect the North as well – potentially creating a point of divergence between Northern Ireland and Britain.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AHZAITVL2RHVBAXPMW3HYUPTAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863423},"content":"It remains to be seen what the political implications of all of this will be, though this would certainly be problematic for unionists; equally problematic will be what, on the face of it, appears to be the creation of an economic border – at least in regard to US exports – on the island of Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7HJYHQJX4ZBTXHELSPDZNAG6EM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863424},"content":"Speaking this morning, the North’s Minister for Finance, Sinn Féin’s Caoimhe Archibald, said the imposition of tariffs were “deeply regrettable” and warned a trade war would “only fuel inflation and risk recession.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"VV7SCM7NXVDNDNZCOQDP54I3TI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863425},"content":"She has spoken this morning to the Tánaiste Simon Harris and the UK Trade Secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, and ministers will discuss the tariffs at a meeting of the Northern Executive at Stormont later this morning.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SZL4NZ4LRNEG5BFUW7PTGOQ5HI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863426},"content":"Ms Archibald outlined five key asks of the British and Irish Governments.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OUUJ2IXUXZFY7DXXZTWS5NCUVQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863427},"content":"“First, to keep the north’s unique circumstances in mind in trade negotiations and in terms of any countermeasures.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L5ZY3ERO6NGLZD7YLDB7UVTXJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863428},"content":"“Second, to act in concert, and to minimise divergence between Britain and the 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tariffs will have ramifications for businesses in Northern Ireland.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"SRSMFMJTF5GUHCA4E3G2HJ3CFI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863433},"content":"She said it was time for “calm heads and careful, constructive assessment” and asked that “Northern Ireland and its unique circumstances are adequately considered as both the UK and EU prepare to respond.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"J6MFUPG2FVDM3DSPDLT7AEWYW4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863434},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743673662891},"id":"timestamp-79278","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"4OOZOC3OBBBUDBN6DNBMALXM2A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331288},"content":"EU may hit tech giants in tariffs response","type":"header"},{"_id":"GJDB4IYSQ5BAFIMI32SR7N22GE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863436},"content":"The European Union should not rule out targeting US tech companies in the bloc’s retaliation to sweeping tariffs announced by Mr Trump, a senior MEP has said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OR6IPNN2V5A5JP3LVYIVB7OKP4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863437},"content":"<i>Here is Jack Power’s report:</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"W36DKXWI4RHABD3L6LJHH7AOJE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863438},"content":"Bernd Lange, the chair of the European Parliament’s trade committee, said tariffs on digital services and tech giants, would be one way to increase the pressure on the US to come to the negotiating table.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2YPJZTH3D5E4JICW2X2WYEAPCQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863439},"content":"Speaking on Thursday morning, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said there seemed to be “no order to the disorder” of Mr Trump’s plans.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KY3RV74L5BHW5D6RB74DWG4CFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863440},"content":"The head of the EU’s executive arm, which is responsible for the bloc’s trade policy, said it would respond with a series of countermeasures to protect European interests.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2LHEPSOYYFH7JCWGHSSK7YZC5Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863441},"content":"The commission had already been preparing to hit €26 billion worth of US goods with tariffs, in response to import taxes Mr Trump previously levied on steel and aluminium last month.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HY7MZZ5KGBEDHJSSJ43WBEYKLA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863442},"content":"The exact US products to be targeted has been the subject of intense lobbying. The Government has pushed back against plans to hit US bourbon, due to fears Mr Trump would respond with even higher tariffs on Irish whiskey in retribution. France has also raised concerns about bourbon, to protect its exports of wine and champagne from steeper tariffs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ROBX7E4CUZE43CA2VC727TKXNQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863443},"content":"The EU is preparing a further package of retaliatory levies, in response to the vast US tariffs announced on Wednesday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YR4GROTUBJCTDMNKNAGXKTSEEQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863444},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743673880002},"id":"timestamp-70312","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"FUK6L25Q7NDQRPAB3ENP6C3DTM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331298},"content":"Statement from the British Irish Chamber of Commerce on US Tariffs on EU and UK Imports","type":"header"},{"_id":"ZH77K25SENBIBCQ4CMIBLFO4V4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863446},"content":"The British Irish Chamber of Commerce has expressed deep concerns about the decision of the US Administration to impose tariffs of 20 per cent on EU imports and 10 per cent on UK imports.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IZFBH5IPAFAXTNCWCBD4XRBU3Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863447},"content":"“These measures threaten to disrupt trade flows, impact businesses on both sides of the Atlantic, and undermine the long-standing commitment to open and fair trade.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GQEJF3ZK4JDJFOUZPFGAIOEUHQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863448},"content":"“It is imperative that the EU and the US engage in urgent dialogue to resolve this disputes,” it has said in a statement.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7RVUWFA3KRCVVKSJSFKXGKI6NA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863449},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743673955695},"id":"timestamp-61362","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"5RCUU6VTZBBPDP7TFYUZSPUSIA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331303},"content":"Simon Harris says clear heads needed to negotiate tariffs","type":"header"},{"_id":"4AIMYKQ3DBBWVNCUWCKVSN43YU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863451},"content":"The laws of economic gravity will kick in now that the “moment of chaos” has passed, Tánaiste Simon Harris has said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GD6QESNISRCRDGO5H5GHQWBLFE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863452},"content":"He has been speaking on RTÉ radio’s Today with Claire Byrne show.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4TU33QRFSVFRLJQ76ACCYIKOCQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863453},"content":"Vivienne Clarke reports that Mr Harris has acknowledged that Mr Trump was determined to have his moment, and he did that on Wednesday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ITQ62XB4FRGWJB2SBY5VHRINII","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863454},"content":"“Once that moment came, economic gravity and the laws of economic gravity would have to kick in and that there would be a need for mature, calm negotiation on a way forward.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TUKEOLYJIVHJLA26TGZQZL6IAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863455},"content":"“And in what was a very grim and dark moment for global trade last night, I think the only slight, tiny glimmer of hope in that difficult situation was even an acknowledgment from the US president himself that there was now scope for negotiation and engagement, and that’s what needs to happen.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EA23N6OLHVAAXJVNJKU77AMVL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863456},"content":"He did warn again that the ‘Big Bang’ of Wednesday night did not mean it was all done, and that his sense was that pharma tariffs were still on the agenda. He said the fact that they were not announced this week means that the EU has a little time on its side.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HALGYD4YKBBAHCT3G5RBR3VFB4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863457},"content":"“Ireland I think has been successful in making the point at a European level that pharma is not just about the Irish economy it’s actually has a very significant impact on the European economy,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UTFNXY7VPNC7JJO5FWEHVF67WQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863458},"content":"The big pharma companies were not in Ireland just because of the corporation tax, they were here because of access to the EU market with 60 per cent of their products going to European markets, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"36A5QOCQNZDN3LHVPRKISQ4P4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863459},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743675674174},"id":"timestamp-19217","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"NUPICALEANBSXBWBD3IXGZVWLM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331313},"content":"How can Ireland and the EU respond?","type":"header"},{"_id":"E3UC4R6M5FBGVHHGV3KQPMALHE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863461},"content":"Perhaps the ‘wait and see’ stance is best. Many senior politicians in the Union seem to want to see what impact the announcement by Mr Trump will have.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H5J7OSK3TRBOLFGZKBNA277QLE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863462},"content":"The immediate reaction has been a fall in European stock markets but that does not provide a medium-term indicator. There have been warnings including those from Ursula von der Leyen who has said the global economy may “massively suffer” as a result of the tariffs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LGQ2E4Q23RGSXHTXFCXRB7BMQI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863463},"content":"Already the EU is close to announcing a raft of measures in response to the first round of tariffs on steel and aluminium.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7GWZXKDTJRFLZC5CRYUBI4KZ4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863464},"content":"Already, on Thursday, we see governments begin to question the basis of the calculations used by the US to determine the tariffs. China, in particular, has challenged it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L6W7W55HGNEZJIKVSYWD3HHADM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863465},"content":"In advance of a meeting of EU trade ministers on Monday, there is a clear appetite for negotiation – some EU States believe that, true to Mr Trump’s reputation as a dealmaker, what was announced last night represents an opening gambit. It is noteworthy that the Executive Order signed in the White House last night did leave room for negotiations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N725NRXXMRHLRJDOKUB37267JQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863466},"content":"There are differences among EU States as to the response needed. There are fears in some States, including Ireland, that the proposed tariff on US Bourbon whiskey, will trigger retaliatory sanctions against EU-origin alcohol and food in an escalating trade war.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y5ZFXSTWBFAHPETYZRZYWIILI4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863467},"content":"There is also the difficulty for Ireland of the differential rate of tariffs between this State and the UK, especially Northern Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RFQEVW4EDVAQBM2HEXP44CJE64","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863468},"content":"Generally, the EU has said it will not stand idly by. That will mean, in the absence of agreement, reciprocal tariffs. There is also some talk of the EU applying anti-coercion measures. These can place restrictions on goods and services, and also on intellectual property rights and foreign direct investment. This is very much seen as the nuclear option and is unlikely to be deployed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BD5UDJZMCVFQ5H73JLX2KHNSCM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863469},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743676641650},"id":"timestamp-17312","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"L5Y4RQB255E7HGU5HVGJAS3ZFU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331323},"content":"Russia, Belarus, Cuba and North Korea not on tariff list","type":"header"},{"_id":"3N4IFZ2GOJC7XHI4DOPIEX2G4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863471},"content":"There were a number of notable exclusions from the global tariffs announced by the US. They included Russia, North Korea, Belarus and Cuba.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KKY6E4TPHNEJTOY7EXTGQG66AQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863472},"content":"All of those countries are already subject to punitive sanctions, and trade restrictions. The White House said on Wednesday night that those are so high that they “preclude any meaningful trade” with the US.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5QLLHOE3FJGMVDXHTCRLLJICUI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863473},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743676918842},"id":"timestamp-17913","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"DYXS5GRUPBCJHO5WIO4SEQBLWA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331327},"content":"Further caution expressed by Paschal Donohoe in Dáil","type":"header"},{"_id":"YAMRUAY5FJHARMUXNIJ5ZPZVWA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863475},"content":"Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe has warned businesses that there are limits to what the Government can do to support them, <i>Marie O’Halloran reports.</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"KD2VWR6JW5F2NFVE4KCYIAOLZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863476},"content":"He said that as well as taking initiatives to deal with the US “I also do need to be honest and clear regarding setting expectations of what we can do”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B32254AVG5DRVMCFEGC2NGJOGE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863477},"content":"In terms of trade for Ireland alone “that’s tens of billions of euro. If that is affected in any way, no Government can put in place measures that can take the place of that trade.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"LL75MP4Q6FCATAABR5YKFQ4XXY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863478},"content":"But he said that based on “what is currently happening”, the forecast is “for a lower level of growth, but for our economy still to have very high levels of employment”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YAP3T6QV3JBO3ONVS4EVV6DZ24","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863479},"content":"Speaking in the Dáil during finance questions he said the Government would engage with businesses through organisations like the IDA and Enterprise Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M5LKWU6RWVFTXDERH5ZNAKZCNM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863480},"content":"“What we will have to do is engage with companies individually and see how we can assist them in finding new markets or dealing with negotiation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6DCF2BEPDFDADOBUF5TBU4FGBI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863481},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743677336426},"id":"timestamp-92627","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"2FQOCFWIZFGBFCFDXYYCM357DY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331335},"content":"THE ASTI Coercion Instrument – what is the EU’s nuclear trade weapon?","type":"header"},{"_id":"UJLMM5MYFRF3RO2OPCD347WNJ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863483},"content":"Tánaiste Simon Harris was asked this morning about use of the Anti Coercion Instrument (ACI), <i>writes Jack Horgan-Jones.</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"IQFOR2GAR5AE7KHPWUIKHGUDWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863484},"content":"The EU developed it a few years ago, partially, in response to Chinese action against Lithuania over support for Taiwan as a way of hitting back against “deliberate economic pressure” against the bloc or its member states. It entered into force in 2023.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BPI2BLC7TVFY7LLTBAESZJFN2Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863485},"content":"It is an extraordinarily powerful tool, variously referred to as the “big bazooka” or “the tariff equivalent of a nuclear bomb”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4PGSRU4PGNF6NLMQNOTRVT4BDA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863486},"content":"“It can be as broad as it likes, as deep as it likes, as long as it likes, as short as it likes – it’s a totally flexible instrument,” was how one Irish Government figure summed it up in recent weeks.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QYGDKPKXF5BF5G4IVDNG4IMIRI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863487},"content":"What does that mean in the real world?","type":"text"},{"_id":"AVNX6KNBEJF2DBGFZGSQPOPIKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863488},"content":"Well, it’s quite extensive, to put it mildly. It can target trade in goods or services, impose measures affecting the access of foreign direct investment to the Union, financial markets, aspects of intellectual property rights, access to EU markets and public procurement, restrictions on access by banking and insurance entities or placing certain chemicals, sanitary and phytosanitary goods in the EU, export controls and more – including targeting individuals connected to supposedly coercive jurisdictions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J7ARI7ULIVHVRK2HEAYI4CZLKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863489},"content":"The EU views the ACI as a weapon of deterrence, outlining that it will “be most successful if there is no need to use it”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A2KNDA6XFVDAXIDYPNE7FX45WM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863490},"content":"Before deploying it, the European Commission has to first start an examination of the existence of economic coercion, either off its own bat or following a request. This can take up to four months, and if the Commission proposes, the European Council (heads of government in member states), has 8-10 weeks to act. The proposals would have to be confirmed by a qualified majority. The framework envisages a further period of engagement with the coercive actor, before adopting measures “as a last resort” – and only with the support of a committee composed of representatives of Member States. If this is approved, the Commission has three months to impose measures.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2EZ76WNL4ZBHLDDD74JFER6GQI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863491},"content":"Nonetheless, even announcing or hinting at the early stages of using the ACI could be seen as escalatory – something Dublin is strongly urging against.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YETXX2T2IVAO5EWVGFSJWMCWSM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863492},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743678454317},"id":"timestamp-20558","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"SD2KCEKGIBCWNDPF4KCVPE7LHI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331346},"content":"Heard and McDonald Islands hit with US tariff of 10% despite being uninhabited.","type":"header"},{"_id":"DYL7WM43TNHP5ASO52IKPR4EUM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863494},"content":"A 10 per cent tariff placed on uninhabited islands in the Antarctic Ocean is the most bizarre takeaway from Liberation Day. The islands, Australian territories in the Antarctic, do have a large population of Penguins, however.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SALHOM6AGJGSJMIFDMRHEEKDRQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863495},"content":"There has been a lot of amused, and bemused, reaction on social media.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CP5FIG745VBEBCDPA25MVWDN5U","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"D6MU3F5S4BBPLCBJLP3ARHP2BE","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"3DD6CWDQZJHDNEP7RKXELKSSRY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678863499},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743678733684},"id":"timestamp-77702","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"43ECGLI6PVC5FDT6X7MO753LEY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331352},"content":"EU officials fearful that pharmaceuticals could be next","type":"header"},{"_id":"JKRFFP42CNAPNFN4MGCEM6DWBI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039889},"content":"Ireland should be wary of breathing any “sigh of relief” that pharmaceutical exports were not hit by Trump’s across-the-board tariffs, a senior European Commission official has said. <i>Jack Power is reporting on this development.</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"YX2BYR64ARFZPMIMGWYHUPOOW4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039890},"content":"The EU executive believes everything still points towards the US administration preparing to follow-up with specific tariffs targeting the pharma sector. “We do fear and suspect pharmaceuticals are next”, one commission source said on Thursday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IZE6DFM2UZHGNCTWHSYEGQ6BKU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039891},"content":"Pharma products account for a huge amount of Ireland’s large trade flow to the United States. Mr Trump has frequently spoken about bringing the manufacturing facilities of Irish-based pharma companies back to the US.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y2LYAX6ZTVDPXO2XNRCNQVQ5OM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039892},"content":"Trump had singled out steel, cars, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and timber as strategic sectors he wants to protect domestically, by levying tariffs on imports from abroad.","type":"text"},{"_id":"22L5EGPED5CAXH65YMDGBNRE3Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039893},"content":"The White House previously slapped 25 per cent tariffs on imports of steel, aluminium, cars and car parts, sold from Europe and elsewhere to the US. Expected tariffs on pharma exports to the US from Ireland and other EU states would probably be set at similar levels, the commission source speculated.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AI3SVBDJ4RFINIEBLFFS6SDIOU","additional_properties":{"_id":"FOCZ5OAP2FHSLI7ZDZN62GUH4U"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743680610821},"id":"timestamp-45064","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"IZDBS66D3JG6XIDZFUXDROG6TM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331359},"content":"Harris again emphasises need to be calm in response to tariff hikes","type":"header"},{"_id":"LQC7AYF5EFG75ASLKGDPMEFICM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039896},"content":"Leaders’ Questions in the Dáil has unsurprisingly been dominated by this issue. Tánaiste Simon Harris, who is taking the questions today, gave a variation on what he said to Claire Byrne earlier on RTÉ.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QUFXQQZMZFBSRGSYTIFVADCBPA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039897},"content":"<i>This is Marie O’Halloran’s report from Dáil Éireann.</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"KY2THSNCOBFU7JZSMPC6BK6FFE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039898},"content":"Mr Harris said the US president was “determined to have a moment of chaos” in terms of the announcement of the biggest change in terms of trading approach in probably a century.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZOD6EHOIENB7XKF6TPA6C24YIU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039899},"content":"“He’s had his big bang moment” with tariffs and charts and “now it’s time for calm and measured response”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4MG7LEJTX5CPRE6QYCZOAJ7U6A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039900},"content":"“What now needs to happen is negotiation and if I have to try and find some sliver of hope in a very grim and dark situation it is that there were references both by President Trump” and the Secretary of Commerce “about negotiations”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LFR43R4IEJFWTFNWNKXYSPH4VQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039901},"content":"He was responding in the Dáil to Sinn Féin finance spokesman Pearse Doherty who said that last night the world was “subjected to US trade aggression and to add insult to injury we had to watch the US play the victim”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3XYTDTIOARH4ZL6CLWVSIMPCDA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039902},"content":"During Leaders’ Questions he said the average EU tariff on US goods is 5 per cent but “fact and reality took a back seat last night” when the US president “went on to claim that the EU imposes tariffs of 39 per cent”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"65S27PIQJBAYXMXMDE72F7PGQM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039903},"content":"Mr Doherty added that “what Trump did last night was an act of sabotage”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R7IMXHYF6VHF5NXH2NUJDXWUG4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039904},"content":"He called for the convening of the North-South Ministerial Council without delay.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EW2W7FK7CFFYRIIPXGRTOV4OOM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039905},"content":"“We need to have a laser focus on the things that we can control” and “we also need to protect our all-Ireland economy”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MU3WTCNP2VHHPA4O56PQLRGDIM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039906},"content":"Mr Harris said he had spoken this morning to the North’s Minister for the Economy and held a video call with the First and Deputy First Ministers and the Minister for the Economy yesterday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FJFAFM5BBBCH5CAIJ75ETSF7E4","additional_properties":{"_id":"AQYKYPMZSNFMNEXOHFVMBSLPB4"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743680877920},"id":"timestamp-747","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"FTDLKU7NGZBRJJKYDGHALBNNHI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331372},"content":"EU Commissioner Michael McGrath in Dublin for meeting with Taoiseach","type":"header"},{"_id":"DSFTMUHP4VG3ZMAO67RWACS3IU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039909},"content":"The Commissioner for Democracy, Justice, the Rule of Law and Consumer Protection is in Dublin today for a meeting with the Taoiseach, and also his erstwhile boss, Micheál Martin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FR6CAHRLYVDTBLAZDXVNGVMCFU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039910},"content":"They will have much to discuss, but we expect the subject matter to be the impact of tariffs. Both politicians are due to hold a joint press conference at 1.30pm.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4WACE74EDZAA5MH3G2O6Y77NPE","additional_properties":{"_id":"CFD4P3AQEJCOZABQO5TNXZGIRY"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"UKSHY2VYY5FZNFRYVA45DSK2F4","additional_properties":{"_id":"DAG6KUFSJFFXLGV7PYLP5E7QPM"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743681254217},"id":"timestamp-64521","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"AKHCW5OWLNETXDZ3TX2FBABFSM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331377},"content":"The view of the Economist on Liberation Day – it’s not good.","type":"header"},{"_id":"ZAKJSONA2BEAPM7KOZPGTAEGFE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039914},"content":"The Economist has used clever word play for its cover headline, branding Wednesday’s announcement in the White House Rose Garden as ‘Ruinaton Day’.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QZAWX77L6NBI3PU3HCKYR4MQAI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039915},"content":"It goes on to say that almost everything President Trump said abut history, economics and trade during the press conference was “utterly deluded”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YWB7GRS4GRGLPORRYIUNVHPJ4U","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"SLMCK5VDINEPRIAPYHXDWQABK4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331381},"content":"Von der Leyen to hold strategic dialogue with pharma industry on Tuesday","type":"header"},{"_id":"U7VNWW3CYJGJ3OLY33UFUI77MU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039918},"content":"Tánaiste Simon Harris has been fielding questions about tariffs in the Dáil, <i>writes Marie O’Halloran.</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"W7HDKZTHKZCSRGLH4KA4GMYDJE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039919},"content":"He warned that “we shouldn’t fool ourselves” that pharma will not be included in the US President’s tariffs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B4FRX7VVRBH5BAR4XBHNRNZSDU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039920},"content":"Simon Harris told TDs that pharmaceuticals were exempted from the US administration’s list last night.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7VCQ3PYMORFF7CG6ZZQVA4ZS2I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039921},"content":"“But we shouldn’t fool ourselves that there aren’t further plans in relation to sector specific measures, including pharma,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I3ARVHURVFDUVHAXD4NK6EUTUU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039922},"content":"He told the Dáíl that EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will hold a strategic dialogue with the pharmaceutical industry next Tuesday. Mr Harris said this was an important step.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RPG4W6JDWJDZVATWP6MFWJXMUI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039923},"content":"Labour Party TD Duncan Smith said the tariffs imposed risk “plunging us all into a global recession”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SVVJLNWYDNF73INU5QOD2LJBNU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743683039924},"content":"Hitting out at the US president he said he “exhibited zero economic rationale for pursuing this approach or perhaps proved why he is one of very few people who issued a plan that ended up bankrupting a casino”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LFZWSTQCUBFXBCFACB4UVQWHL4","additional_properties":{"_id":"RC5M5ZWRW5FQLGF6SVAQHAO7UQ"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743682267445},"id":"timestamp-98982","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"MXMMYX5CA5AMRIOW55VVKHQSYM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331390},"content":"US charged EU €4 billion more in tariffs in 2023 than were levied by the Union.","type":"header"},{"_id":"2DBXZJ2YRRAWJFPP4D47UAN5PE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743684524127},"content":"There is an interesting fact sheet from the EU setting out all the facts about trade, services, VAT and tariffs as they apply in the Union, and also in the States.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TIE2SDEDTBFQVGJQWSL244EBVI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743684524128},"content":"<a href=\"https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_25_541\" target=\"_blank\">You can find it here</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WONP56JKE5BZRGAM3SJ36IQNYQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743684524129},"content":"There are some very interesting facts. For one the EU enjoyed a trade surplus of €157 billion in relation to goods in 2023. However, the US had a surplus of €109 billion in terms of services. When goods and services were combined, the EU had a surplus of €48 billion.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4DGDZGDGMFFQ7KIZ7YDFWCUMXY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743684524130},"content":"The fact sheet also discloses that the EU collected €3 billion in tariffs from the US in 2023 but, in the same year, the US collected €7 billion in tariffs from the EU- some €4 billion more. It also debunks the notion that VAT is a tariff, setting out that the tax is applied universally to all goods in the EU States, irrespective of their origin. The tax is applied equally to goods from inside the EU and goods from outside the EU.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JCGJC2J55NH2JGQCFA6HYNV2CI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743684524131},"content":"It is the equivalent of the sales tax in the US, which applies to EU goods as well as to American-produced goods.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NOZJ3JCQUVAUTOT45ZJ4YFDRAI","additional_properties":{"_id":"ZDUMTNM6MVG3RDFZSL7RYFIQPY"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743683829933},"id":"timestamp-37752","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"SJPJ6BUWCBAQJPH7NNOGL3AKUU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331397},"content":"The Other Big (and Sad) News in Ireland today – death of Mick O’Dwyer","type":"header"},{"_id":"6T7YLVBX2JAUHLB656NSII4TN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743684524134},"content":"The Tánaiste has described Mick O’Dwyer as one of Ireland’s greatest GAA icons, <i>Marie O’Halloran reports.</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"JGMU64VGDRBODGG2K4ISVERKI4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743684524135},"content":"The Dáil discussion on the US tariffs was briefly interrupted for tributes to GAA legend Mick O’Dwyer, who has died at the age of 88.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CCF62LSMIJCIVOEX4YXQURV7GE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743684524136},"content":"Tánaiste Simon Harris said “it is with tremendous sadness that we’ve learned of the passing of one of Ireland’s greatest GAA icons.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W23EM2QTWVBQDFUA3VDQSKAP5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743684524137},"content":"“His contribution to Irish sport, to community life was extraordinary, and particularly in his native county of Kerry though we do like to claim a bit of him for the great joy he brought us in Wicklow and to many other counties.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4CETENXGIBAKTKIAP74AJHY7JY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743684524138},"content":"“I think of him, his family today on his passing and all of his The GAA family as well. May he rest in peace.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"RFOZMMCUTVE4LF3GM4BHRLKSMI","additional_properties":{"_id":"PO7M6DYGKJBY7HRSEBUF3NVMQE"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"RKGI4CQ4OVA5FOMKHWLZ7JLJZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743684524140},"content":"Earlier during finance questions TDs also paid tribute.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6Y4EIZWZAFETTF5CESFCUKJW6Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743684524141},"content":"Fianna Fáil North Kildare TD Naoise Ó Cearúil. He too said he was a GAA legend, “particularly in Kerry, but we have a great fondness for him in Kildare for delivering two Leinster titles and getting us to an all-Ireland final.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RA72VCMIYFHCFLXFH2664FZOQE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743684524142},"content":"“I was quite young at the time, but they’re very positive memories, and just acknowledge him and his contributions to Irish society over those many years.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"7ITWCI5WD5D5JB5PTXGKPBTYHQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743684524143},"content":"Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe said “May he rest in peace. I know many members of the GAA family in Kildare will be feeling particularly sad today.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2XPFOBUNK5CWPOEAOS2Z6GYNOM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743684524144},"content":"Fine Gael Wicklow-Wexford TD Brian Brennan recalled involvement with him in Wicklow GAA. “I was sponsor, and he was manager, and one of the most amazing characters I’ve ever come across. And the legacy he’s left in the GAA world is priceless.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"WBPO4VSD25G6ZLD7V6MQKRTE5Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510718},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743701234191},"id":"timestamp-95011","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"ONCHPVFUD5D3ZF3OOFLJVRIUFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510719},"content":"Minister for Public Expenditure <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/jack-chambers/\" target=\"_self\">Jack Chambers</a> has compared US president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_self\">Donald Trump</a>’s tariff regime to the circumstances which precipitated the Great Depression.","type":"text"},{"_id":"26EGTZEXLBB2FHUDIHNRSC6BTI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510720},"content":"He said the extent of the tariffs that was announced by Mr Trump has not been seen for 100 years.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QMF6CLRYOBFWVKNYHZMYOFIJ64","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510721},"content":"He said Mr Trump’s announcement, which includes a 10 per cent baseline tariff on all imports along with higher rates for many countries, will be “a great disrupter to the trading environment”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XUSF6DW3FBDRZF5XR7QMLMBAT4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510722},"content":"Speaking to reporters in Dublin, he said: “If you look at the fundamentals of what’s being imposed, it’s going to have a serious impact on consumer confidence, it’s going to have an impact on investment confidence, potentially increases costs and inflationary impacts on ordinary citizens – all of that yields great uncertainty.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MRMTY6HEOVDXHC55NMOV5UHTQM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510723},"content":"“The last time the scope or extent that this was tried globally in trading terms was around 1930, which led to the Great Depression. In fact, the tariffs that are being imposed now are in excess of that.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KQS6R7C5WZEKDL6DQLLI7X77NQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510724},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743702721456},"id":"timestamp-11335","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"7NON3SZ7ONG67FHLR7UNBGSDCU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510725},"content":"Taoiseach Micheal Martin has said the US may not have understood the complexity of tariffs on EU pharmaceuticals when it was first suggested.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SNTGPTMIFZHZXBJ6JG5S6JQDWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510726},"content":"Pharmaceuticals are exempt from the global tariffs announced by Mr Trump on Wednesday, but may form part of further measures.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FPZKB2XAJRF5XJHUFJRIMQIH5Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510727},"content":"Asked whether he believed the tariff exemption would be temporary, Mr Martin said: “We don’t know that. I think what’s happening there is it’s much more complex than might have been originally thought on the US side.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LDDWSWAVDBAFPBOBTGCFN4EMH4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510728},"content":"“There are a lot of complex supply chain issues. Also the cost of medicines would go up immediately for American citizens.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BBXUDLOZLRA2LLZZ4W2KV7CV64","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510729},"content":"Speaking to RTE’s Six One News, he said pharmaceutical goods produced in Denmark, Belgium and Ireland were often intermediate products that required further work in the US.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KRGHVSEXFVFYTAA72YF7PVPEAI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510730},"content":"Other issues included the investment already put into EU factories for compliance, and the skilled workforce required.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DJ2NAKKEMZALJJAHEYA32TGD54","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510731},"content":"“You can’t relocate them overnight and so the US could end up doing more damage to its own companies,” he said. “I don’t think that’s what they want.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"LSKSQ6FWIJBZFM7XCX3WYGSMHU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510732},"content":"Meanwhile, Mr Martin said he did not believe there was a widespread push within the EU for tariffs on US services, but said some of the larger member states may be pursuing that “as a sort of nuclear option on day one.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"GLJAGLZTZZDK3FJNHSLH2FSRLQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510733},"content":"He said the Irish Government was against that, particularly as an initial response.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VQMQGTWQ2ZEZZL6FXF7MO4ZTU4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510734},"content":"“There may be outstanding issues from the American side that we would acknowledge, then maybe we could resolve them by negotiation. There’s no point in doing something without really understanding the unintended consequences that can flow from decisions like this.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"UDZRB5BASRGYZE2O5YF2QJ5WMM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510735},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743703562292},"id":"timestamp-36125","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"A4BCDVQ5JAUEAEFL7MBBUMPKYI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510736},"type":"image"},{"_id":"R3USLEFXI5FMXJ27SZYTSNNGXY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510737},"content":"Italian prime minister <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/giorgia-meloni/\" target=\"_self\">Giorgia Meloni</a> said trade tariffs announced by the US are a mistake, but their impact should not be overestimated and the reaction needed to be carefully considered.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IO5LYOIEZRGIBM3GTY7DHMMPGA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510738},"content":"“We must not fuel alarmism, it’s not a catastrophe,” Ms Meloni said in an interview on Italian state television station RAI.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F2RUPPRQFJHC7LYWRDRQOA3S6M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510739},"content":"“I’m not convinced that the best way to respond to tariffs is with other tariffs,” she added.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JYX6XDTZN5GKLMKFBQE4JNIG3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510740},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743704961379},"id":"timestamp-29973","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"EDLSCQESHW7B3ODBYHW3NZDA24","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510741},"type":"image"},{"_id":"NHSES5J5LFD6HLGBOLTZV62IOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510742},"content":"Global financial markets have been plunged into turmoil as Donald Trump’s escalating trade war knocked trillions of dollars off the value of the world’s biggest companies and heightened fears of a US recession.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HLGW3WMSPNBTVLB43RSU7FJKUE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510743},"content":"As world leaders reacted to the president’s “liberation day” tariff policies demolishing the international trading order, about $2 trillion was wiped off Wall Street and share prices in other financial centres across the globe.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GE3BR3LLRFDPFDUYF5O3ADPWBA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510744},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743706892281},"id":"timestamp-7204","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"D4DEDUHBGFAVLLRIFCYNNZFA2A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510745},"content":"The bad news just keeps rolling in.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UWUMATTDEFGUNHKOWQWTGNXBVY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510746},"content":"Trump’s tariffs are set to increase prices of cannabis products in the US, as many firms rely on Asia for manufacturing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X456UHXQE5AULCXX2HEUMT4WV4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510747},"content":"Items such as tins, vape hardware and specialised glass remain difficult to source domestically, and companies remain largely dependent on Asia particularly China, analysts and executives said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"554DLDQF55GFXC6CXZXSXB7WLI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510748},"content":"“Those relying on exports from nations with tariffs, such as China, will need to take a serious look at how they might absorb the extra costs or alter partnerships,” said Bryan Gerber, CEO of Hara Supply, the world’s largest manufacturer of cones and combustibles.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JXLMWDVFFRBHTJKXXT4EQAHZLE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510749},"content":"Shares of cannabis firms such as Tilray Brands, Canopy Growth, Organigram and Terrascend were trading down between 5 per cent and 10 per cent on Thursday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HUQ4SIY5HRCDPMSB623QXD5OCM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510750},"content":"Most of these tariff costs will be passed to consumers. The higher costs will likely drive more consumers to the illicit market, further denting margins for legal cannabis firms.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YUCDJZG4UNACVA2JUX5Z5SRKTM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510751},"content":"“Most cannabis businesses don’t have the margin flexibility to absorb a 10 per cent-15 per cent increase,” said Mike Forenza, managing partner at AE Global, which makes packaging products for cannabis firms.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FHVRYBGJSBALLDYBXB6LKXS4GA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510752},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743707470592},"id":"timestamp-62910","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"OA3MJKDHONHI3NGNZABNNSE7XQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510753},"content":"Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs could hamstring Big Tech’s billion-dollar efforts to build <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/artificial-intelligence/\" target=\"_self\">artificial intelligence</a> infrastructure in the country, likely undermining a key goal of the administration, analysts have said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SXYEM3V4OFD4HDNIOXOQN23M4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510754},"content":"Mr Trump and technology executives have touted lofty plans by Oracle, SoftBank and others to invest heavily in artificial intelligence since his return to the White House earlier this year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FPVILQPN6ZDEDDDDJGT2VO6LKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510755},"content":"On Wednesday, Mr Trump slapped steep duties on leading technology equipment suppliers including 34 per cent on China, 32 per cent on Taiwan and 25 per cent on South Korea, while imposing a 10 per cent baseline tariff on all imports to the US.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CSWEHBUQSREUPHIPHZTQPYW6CM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510756},"content":"Electronics - which include smartphones, PCs and data-centre equipment - were the second biggest imports last year at nearly $486 billion worth of goods, according to Census Bureau data.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TCHVZQ2OLNHLFO2GH5MDJFB55M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510757},"content":"Bernstein analysts pegged data processing machine imports at about $200 billion in 2024, mostly from Mexico, Taiwan, China and Vietnam.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H4DHDOSVA5CDDAYUUH56ERBMD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510758},"content":"“Capital expenditure by tech giants will get reshuffled: Expect major players in AI infrastructure and consumer tech to reallocate short-term spending away from expansion and toward procurement hedging or sourcing shifts,” said Abhishek Singh, partner at research firm Everest Group.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2SHD3Q7HGNAZPB4SSGFWATVZDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510759},"content":"While semiconductors were exempted from Wednesday’s tariffs, the US is planning targeted tariffs for chips that could come later, a White House official said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5YJFLRVOUFGTLH57AWTHANUJUM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510760},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743708640016},"id":"timestamp-16983","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"O5HASE5GUJCKPOANQA7MF4EXVI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510761},"content":"Speaking to reporters on Thursday amid tumbling US stock markets, Trump said: “I think it’s going very well. It was an operation like when a patient gets operated on and it’s a big thing. I said this would be exactly the way it is.","type":"text"},{"_id":"65RXQC2VRJFFDEYUOH4VRLEZK4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510762},"content":"“We’ve never seen anything like it. The markets are going to boom. The stock is going to boom. The country is going to boom.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"UIVYCPT3AFEIVCA4XVSGXT3VZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510763},"content":"He went on to add: “The rest of the world wants to see is there any way they can make a deal. They’ve taken advantage of us for many years… I think it’s going to be unbelievable…”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3R4D5472GZHWRHW4MG2QBK5DIE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510764},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743708772574},"id":"timestamp-63603","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"P7M5R7KQ52FJFVYQQ7ZAERNQLE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510765},"type":"image"},{"_id":"UEOYAACKQJFZDCL53VDE3PUN54","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510766},"content":"Trump has faced widespread backlash from US lawmakers and global leaders over his tariffs plan, with senior Republican senator Mitch McConnell calling it “bad policy”, while Canada – a traditional American ally – called the tariffs “unjustified” and “unwanted.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5QGVXSHREBDMHM3L4X3TILPURI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510767},"content":"“Trade wars with our partners hurt working people most,” he said. “They are a tax on everyday working Americans. Preserving the long-term prosperity of American industry and workers requires working with our allies, not against them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3A7RH7W77NAINN53X6CDXD3MDY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510768},"content":"“With so much at stake globally, the last thing we need is to pick fights with the very friends with whom we should be working with to protect against China’s predatory and unfair trade practices. That includes what we do on trade.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"XJYJ2KI7GFF35KUVHIYUYEVDNA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510769},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743709329678},"id":"timestamp-2844","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"NAWX6NAYJFG4FNNVSKTU4FNCFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510770},"content":"Apple led a sell-off of tech stocks today, falling more than 9 per cent. Its drop was one of its steepest intraday declines since early 2019, when the company’s shares plunged 10 per cent after it warned that iPhone sales in China would fall short of its expectations at the time.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RRJ6UT3BYFBCHK7FZPX3PTK64Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510771},"content":"Wall Street analysts who follow the company have been looking for signs that Apple will be granted a tariff exemption by the White House, as it did when the Trump administration began its previous round of tariffs in 2018.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MNC4Z7C7N5ASNP2KLQHC2UY77Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510772},"content":"But after Trump’s news conference Wednesday, there was no indication that Apple would receive any relief.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L35SU7UOCJBIDJACHT2NHR7UNQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510773},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743710514336},"id":"timestamp-21495","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"3D4XPIDUBBD7DMKEVLV335ELA4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510774},"content":"More here from our Work Correspondent Emmet Malone on the impact of Trump tariffs on business:","type":"text"},{"_id":"CDW2JDEX4JBWTPTNJFHA3ACCJI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510775},"content":"Thousands of jobs in local businesses working across the country for <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/us/\" target=\"_self\">US</a> multinationals could be affected if the tariffs announced on Wednesday night and any possible retaliatory measures went ahead and caused major disruption to pharma, tech and other multinationals, according to <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/isme/\" target=\"_self\">Isme</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6VXPFWUBHRAYXCMICGUC7CNWBE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510776},"content":"The organisation said that while the majority of small and medium sized businesses do not export to the US, a significant number provide services to large multinational facilities and are in some cases very reliant on those clients.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HOBLUPR62BHLNKRKVE2A6DSXDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510777},"content":"It said it was consulting members on Thursday to gauge the scale of the likely impact in a worst-case scenario.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SKB2ALIUJ5HGDDSWCL6ZG5733Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510778},"content":"“We would have a lot of people who are providing services like that, or employing tradespeople, plumbers or electricians in data centres and the like, or other contracted services, and they could be severely impacted by all of this,” said Isme chief executive Neil McDonnell.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3LRI2HAEBRA2TM6HHASTYKJBPI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510779},"content":"“We would also have a lot of lower-level suppliers into pharma,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WQX4QSU3BJHWBMRQXQG6Y65554","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510780},"content":"“When the pandemic struck we had this one guy whose entire business was getting up early each morning and buying fruit in the markets, then putting it in nice packaging into the offices of Google and other companies like that. That was his sole business. He only had American multinationals. Suddenly those companies were telling people to work from home.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"MFMAXJSHTRHQLAPYX5QDINKLII","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510781},"content":"He said while the many larger exporters likely to be impacted were well known, the number of small and medium-sized enterprises who would be hit would be harder to establish.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z47SFK75UJF2TIRT65I6OGFN7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510782},"content":"Isme was talking to members on Thursday in an attempt to get a better idea of the scale of the situation, he said, ahead of the meeting on Friday of the Government’s Trade Forum, an organisation that includes Government departments, employer organisations and, among others, the American Chamber of Commerce Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YNKGYFZYUVHXTIW7MH45LORAKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510783},"content":"Owen Reidy of the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/irish-congress-of-trade-unions-ictu/\" target=\"_self\">Irish Congress of Trade Unions</a>, meanwhile, said the organisation was “very concerned about the impact on jobs and investment”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O74RZHREPZGF7NC75HA7LTXZIE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510784},"content":"“It is crucial that we introduce appropriate schemes, such as an adequate short-time work scheme, to protect jobs, workers’ incomes and skills in vulnerable but viable business. The new Pay-Related Jobseekers’ Benefit is welcome, but will not be enough to protect certain groups of workers in certain sectors and local economies.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"OGZK7V4FXVCDBE7OZNHOJNFS7Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510785},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743713118464},"id":"timestamp-35338","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"VIAIB5E6WJFGZBSSE3C7PXNUV4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510786},"content":"As world leaders reacted to the US president’s “liberation day” tariff policies demolishing the international trading order, about $2.5 trillion was wiped off Wall Street and share prices in other financial centres across the globe.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RLU75VEMGJGMLHZ7RFXMDEFRYM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510787},"content":"Wall Street shuddered and a level of shock unseen since Covid’s outbreak tore through financial markets worldwide over worries about the damage President Donald Trump’s newest set of tariffs could do to economies across continents, including his own.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q6JCODXOKFD5PJNED42YRMVOYY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510788},"content":"The S&P 500 sank 4.8 per cent, more than in major markets across Asia and Europe, for its worst day since the pandemic crashed the economy in 2020.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JJBBTM2SAZDZLJ7LLBUIFCCAKU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510789},"content":"The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1,679 points, or 4 per cent, and the Nasdaq composite tumbled 6 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H5YJAG2EHZBHZL65T5YOS66O6Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510790},"content":"<iframe title=\"Global markets tumble\" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-6SoKu\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/6SoKu/1/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"494\" data-external=\"1\"></iframe><script type=\"text/javascript\">!function(){\"use strict\";window.addEventListener(\"message\",(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll(\"iframe\");for(var t in a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])for(var r,i=0;r=e[i];i++)if(r.contentWindow===a.source){var d=a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"][t]+\"px\";r.style.height=d}}}))}();\n<\/script>","type":"raw_html"},{"_id":"I7RAL4ICDVCGPHKRECKUXYAQZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510791},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743713234548},"id":"timestamp-90482","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"UKCTN6XAJYB7P242MEY6FSDLS4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510792},"type":"image"},{"_id":"QACGITR6KJG3RDADPJ7B7SHI6M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510793},"content":"President Donald Trump has said he would consider a deal for TikTok where China approves the sale of the short video app in exchange for relief from US tariffs on Chinese imports.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GNCQ26KJH5C3ZIQ6MVX52CPWI4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510794},"content":"Trump said that a deal is close on Tiktok, with multiple investors involved.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CLX4S3JFSZCKLJMUZYWNUF47ZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510795},"content":"TikTok faces an April 5th deadline to reach a deal to find a non-Chinese buyer under threat of being banned from the United States.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LCGLFFBVEFA75BGLGH7CPWSIKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510796},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743714309431},"id":"timestamp-95167","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"CB7423HATVHXRNICWETRRHHNTQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510797},"content":"With that, we are going to bring today’s live coverage of Trump’s tariffs to a conclusion for today.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SNDGW3NPTJAMHEWST7PKUSXMBM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510798},"content":"Tune into irishtimes.com for more of our coverage tonight and tomorrow. Thanks for being with us.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OIXRPYZTGZHF3AMGHHQH5KNIYY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743692035231},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743713640000},"id":"timestamp-53942","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"COOJEBANBVAYTCTYX27SHELODA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510800},"content":"<b>Main Points</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"IVH76QGTY5BFLFJ7XXLP2LQEXY","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"},{"_id":"VUQXCU46VRCWZKETUIXM2XJ74E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743714510802},"content":"<b>Key reads</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"U4CLM52BCBFSBIYN4YWQC2V5LE","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"},{"_id":"FULOOK2LTVCJNP3LDJKT2SWKU4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743692035237},"embed":{"config":{},"id":"acast_podcast-27520","url":"/"},"subtype":"acast_podcast","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"6F2ZKZIGW5FCVALWDU4IV4WNUE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331449},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743684656414},"id":"timestamp-22489","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"6WH5PEXJCZFLZM5AIES423QX7E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331450},"content":"Ireland “can and will” weather the storm caused by US President Donald Trump’s imposition of 20 per cent tariffs on imports from the European Union, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V4PIIYG6TVBABE5JIP2C4IPBG4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331451},"content":"Cormac McQuinn reports:","type":"text"},{"_id":"6QFX7Y2OMVDS5L4GI745TAJQ6Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331452},"content":"During a press conference at Government Buildings, Mr Martin said: “Ireland believes in open and free trade and that the imposition of tariffs is bad for the world economy.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"GGL43FVXG5FNXB6EKWKERIFGOE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331453},"content":"“I deeply regret the United States decision to impose 20 per cent tariffs on imports from across the European Union. We see no justification for this.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BNSCYL43GVHRXGP7BNM7FSE3TY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331454},"content":"Mr Martin outlined how more than €4.2 billion worth of goods and services are traded between the European Union and the US every day.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RZK5XIML2NEJVDWYWTHNCO5OIA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331455},"content":"“Disrupting this deeply integrated relationship with tariffs and increased protectionism benefits no one,” he added saying: “Tariffs drive inflation, hurting people on both sides of the Atlantic and they put jobs at risk.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5PSESLGK7JENDM7AZUSWE6NQJU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331456},"content":"Mr Martin said Ireland will “now reflect with our European Union partners on how best to respond.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MO2AXJTGPJH4HED2L7WJG5TEEU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331457},"content":"“It is important that our response is considered and measured. Any action should be proportionate, aimed at defending the interests of our businesses, workers and citizens.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"QYZVEUAKFRAVPGNMOV4JZSMUPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331458},"content":"He said: “Now is a time for dialogue and I believe that a negotiated way forward is the only sensible one.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZCAGPIRSPFGU5A6JF6K2ANEJZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331459},"content":"“A confrontation is in no one’s interests.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"36LN3UZCKNBDXBWJEZCYKNPC3Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331460},"content":"According to the Fianna Fáil leader: “Ireland will be a strong advocate for a constructive solution which enhances the existing and strong transatlantic trading relationship.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RW3D2BOV7VC5PKMR6D7N5FX3S4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331461},"content":"“As a small, open economy and as a country that has built our prosperity on a policy of free and fair trade, there is no doubt that the imposition of tariffs by the US will have an adverse impact.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AC7PGOOWFBFL5OKXOPZLRVVSEI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331462},"content":"“Ireland’s priority is the protection of jobs and our economy.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"A4AVJ6K47ZGSZHK5R56WKQYE6U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331463},"content":"Mr Martin also said: “We are starting from a position of strength and our economy is resilient.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y3GRXWAEHNEG3MEATVTYMZMWXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331464},"content":"“It is important that we focus on factors that we can control including improving our competitiveness and investing in infrastructure.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YLWR34SAHBCT7I6UTCODWG7LAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331465},"content":"“By working with Irish-owned companies, with multinationals based here, with our European Union partners, and bilaterally with the United States, we can and will weather this 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where you have uncertainty, you only have losers.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"LTDAB3E53FEANL3TKJX3E22MMU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331470},"content":"He said the Commission’s first message is it is “ready to negotiate” with the United States adding: “There has been engagement between Commissioner [for Trade Maroš] Šefčovič, [US] Secretary [Howard] Lutnick and others over the last number of weeks”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4UR3SF4BKFD2THQM4SGRKH3LVY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331471},"content":"“We are now ready to step up those negotiations over the days ahead.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"X4Z4LAWBAZDP3PANM3HVFP2KDU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331472},"content":"Mr McGrath said: “the second message is that we will continue to diversify our trade relationships.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B7UNYOOBLFC4ZA2P4TA6UK7POI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331473},"content":"“The EU is a powerhouse in international trade, and more and more countries around the world are engaging now proactively with the European Union with a view to entering into trading agreements, because they see the EU as a very safe, trusted and reliable partner that honours its international commitments when it comes to trade.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BKXAGHYMEBA6VJV3WWVL3JXE6A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331474},"content":"He said the Single Market needs to be strengthened and the EU “must address the competitiveness challenges that have emerged in recent years” and close the “productivity gap that has arisen between the EU and the US and China”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BZVSU7DBJ5D3BCEHRGSTHKYDUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331475},"content":"Mr McGrath said that provisional estimates show that “around €380 billion of EU exports will be subject to the additional tariffs” levied by the US.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D6OTGNVFNJD67D7ZLQUZFLQ37M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331476},"content":"This includes approximately €290 billion subject to the “so-called reciprocal tariffs” announced on Wednesday, €26 billion subject to US tariffs on steel and aluminium, and €67 billion subject to US tariffs on cars and car parts.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EEIIHZ45YZA7JKTM727NDFBN3Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331477},"content":"Mr McGrath said: “This would represent, overall, around 70 per cent of all EU exports to the US being subject to new tariffs that have been announced yesterday and indeed in recent days which would result in around €80 billion euro in additional duties on EU exports to the United States.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5DAWUUZLMVAADE5ZC572OC4HWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331478},"content":"He said the relationship between the US and the EU is “mutually beneficial” and “we need to work together to address the global issues that are there in respect of barriers to entry to certain markets, in relation to over-capacity, in relation to subsidies.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"N4LJAPIP6JH6HDLF5HCYRX7FMY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331479},"content":"Mr McGrath insisted however that “the EU is not the problem.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XBBZBTVWGNH4ZBOUNT6SS6WYDM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331480},"content":"“The EU is part of the solution because this mutually beneficial relationship has resulted in millions of jobs being created on both sides of the Atlantic over many, many decades, and we want that good co-operation, that strong relationship, mutually respectful and beneficial to continue.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"F7S2OO2LKJEKVC7ALUSZOPY3Y4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331481},"content":"The Commissioner for Democracy, Justice, the Rule of Law and Consumer Protection also said he wanted to “underline is the importance of unity at an EU level”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UIVBO4D2ORG37IU5X2MXA64J34","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331482},"content":"He said “acting as a bloc, the fact that trade is a competence of the European Commission in full consultation and agreement, of course, with the Member States gives us a collective strength that we would not have individually”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X2HNJ5AGPNFANHYHL5W2LCK4VM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331483},"content":"He said: “our greatest prize is access to the EU single market of 450 million people, the largest and the most important single market in the world.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"IE2PPLR6LVBVLP2V4OKWHBI3E4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331484},"content":"Mr McGrath added: “We are entering into this period of uncertainty and turbulence, as a EU from a position of strength.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RHUIDYF2JJBH5PQK2HVL5JW7IA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331485},"content":"“We stand ready to negotiate, but we also stand ready to respond and to defend the interests of European businesses and our member states in the event that negotiations 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here:","type":"text"},{"_id":"f8ff9978-59d0-4152-955f-9a2788b1e7b0","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331489},"subtype":"irish-times-video","type":"video"},{"_id":"QRM4KBYOBNCDHAOBDM37PGTNZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331490},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743686535334},"id":"timestamp-30400","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"YINKX4IWENE5BJWSP6B4G6IOGU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331491},"content":"Trump’s tariffs will cause “serious damage and disruption” to the EU and the global economy, according to Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5WRLXQTCVNC7HAXKZNZBJKJINU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331492},"content":"Speaking on RTÉ’s News at One today, Mr Chambers said as an open trading economy, “Ireland is particularly at risk.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"RS4EZOEPLJBRBFNAXZ45FW64LI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331493},"content":"“What I would say as well to balance against that is that we are coming from a position of strength with full employment, inflation has moderated and we are running surpluses,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CXGSRJH23VBXZMKRO5CQ2SFYAU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331494},"content":"Uncertainty and instability, however, will affect investment decisions and the prospect of increased jobs growth in the coming years, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HT7PLYQ3SNAYJMK32QBHAWRGIA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331495},"content":"“This is the first chapter on what will be a long, protracted degree of uncertainty that we haven’t seen for decades and in fact it’s one of the biggest disruptions to global trade in over 100 years,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DPDN732VSNCJ3KGL2TXQPEKNDA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331496},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743687647855},"id":"timestamp-12208","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"A47WOUTL5JC2DDLF4EM27EVSW4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331497},"content":"Stocks are tumbling on Wall Street at the start of trading, as New York traders give their verdict on the new trade war unleashed by the White House last night.","type":"text"},{"_id":"72N3T3IWHFCMZEQ5EQ5WHBX7BU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331498},"content":"As the opening bell rang out across the New York Stock Exchange, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which tracks 30 of the largest US companies, has plunged by 1,137 points, or 2.7 per cent, to 41,087 points.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OQQUO2ZYEVGAPAL5LRVG6WJ2KQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331499},"content":"Nike is the biggest faller, sliding by over 10 per cent, while Amazon and Goldman Sachs have both dropped by around 6 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B5FXJY3KHJBDDPAB7AZ7HDZWRU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331500},"content":"The broader S&P 500 index is sliding down too – it’s down 3.3 per cent in early trading. The tech-focused Nasdaq is being hammered, down 4.5 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"74EWSJD34RGZNCH67OR24NRZVE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331501},"content":"This follows heavy losses in Asia-Pacific markets earlier today, where Vietnam’s main share index slumped by 6.8 per cent after Vietnamese goods were hit with a new 46 per cent tariffs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QMGS56KJ7FHMXCTQBIU3CLBWDQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331502},"content":"European markets are deep in the red too, with the UK’s FTSE 100 index is now down 1.6 per cent or 138 points, at 8469 points. – The Guardian","type":"text"},{"_id":"PLB5OXSKT5CDJCO4TTOVNMLFZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331503},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743687983587},"id":"timestamp-65989","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"FQUNXU46BVD3BAZR65LQO75YAI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331504},"content":"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, meanwhile, has rejected the suggestion that Donald Trump will roll back on tariffs, though added the US president is “always willing to pick up the phone.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DVXVP36BARA5DIE3HF6T4YYSL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331505},"content":"When asked by CNN on Thursday if Mr Trump might pull back on implementing the tariffs before they come into effect, Ms Leavitt said:","type":"text"},{"_id":"B724E2UIX5DZZFP42ULNWC25CQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331506},"content":"“The president made it clear yesterday this is not a negotiation. This is a national emergency. He’s always willing to pick up the phone to answer calls, but he laid out the case yesterday for why we are doing this.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3XW25MVMPNBLHLJ4ZFXOIKPUSQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331507},"content":"Separately, Ms Leavitt attempted to allay investors’ concerns saying:","type":"text"},{"_id":"HDBB3R5GWRF6VKF25WKLHSY7PY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331508},"content":"“To anyone on Wall Street this morning, I would say trust in President Trump,” Leavitt said. “This is a president who is doubling down on his proven economic formula from his first term.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BVBVS2FFSNB73DQFXVZPFABR6I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331509},"content":"“This is a common-sense policy. And if these countries wanted to negotiate, if these countries wanted to do what’s right, they’ve had 70 years to do it,” she told CNN.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G2JQ3RMZZBESHEFTZ2PX2XBIMM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331510},"content":"“Instead, they have been ripping off American workers. And President Trump has made it very clear that this is a policy he was going to implement.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"LL3JIZBETRGTDGRP3SGNCDHYAY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331511},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743688286191},"id":"timestamp-37361","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"BQHQMHKO5NBTDEVEUFIK7UMCCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331512},"content":"Ireland will “not be shy” when it comes to its interests and the strategy being devised by the European Union in response to US President Donald Trump’s trade tariffs announcement, according to Taoiseach Micheál Martin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EOFNUJ72EBFN7I5736M7QRMTDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331513},"content":"He also said Ireland is opposed to a digital services tax aimed at US tech companies, an idea floated by France on Thursday, Cormac McQuinn 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negotiations between the US and the European Union.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R6LQUUPSANC7RM6DFA3QYVU6PU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331530},"content":"“We do not favour a digital services tax.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7D33W7IK35B73JM7KYSJIHOLJA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331531},"content":"“And I think this has to be a considered response, a measured response, and one that is clearly calculated and calibrated not to bring more damage upon the European economy and European citizens.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"MLBGJGUU65G53DI3AYRU5T7HTA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331532},"content":"Asked if an EU-wide digital services tax was among measures being considered by the Commission, Michael McGrath, Ireland’s European Commissioner, said: “The focus, in the first instance, is on trade and the negotiations that now need to happen over the period ahead.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6IWMR5AQ6ZERFJ6UBPKJGIPQJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331533},"content":"He added: “The EU is not at the point at looking at other instruments.","type":"text"},{"_id":"77ZL7XUTSRH2BOHVJCROQ7XAZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331534},"content":"“Our focus is on trade, trying to get a good outcome in respect to trade negotiations, working with the United States in co-operation to deal with the challenges that are there.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2PTNKFV6OBDJDG7VT2ILVXRYJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331535},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743688500000},"id":"timestamp-82232","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"3F5TOXDOY5GCZGTKZFSFXPDENU","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"UN7OPJAIGBDDDK623VOUISVFA4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331537},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743689114073},"id":"timestamp-56524","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"4NXKPBSPFJBXDLC3SFEJM5XWX4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331538},"content":"One of the next big calls for the Government is what it says to Europe about hitting back in the face of US tariffs, Jack Horgan-Jones writes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7KUEXOZDAJBXNN7F3OL5TXUMFY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331539},"content":"Dublin is clearly wary of an ever-escalating exchange, but Brussels is keen to show it won’t be pushed around.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FEOZPM7P3JCXDM2B6MJLLYCMWE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331540},"content":"In a rare show of political unity, Opposition parties seem to be, more or less, singing off the same hymn sheet.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SJZSCWTRKZGHLMXRTZTILE3MHA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331541},"content":"<b>Pearse Doherty, Sinn Féin finance spokesman</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"3J222YAYYNC77DL7YEP25FHHE4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331542},"content":"Mr Doherty told RTÉ’s Prime Time on Wednesday night that if there are counter-tariffs from the EU, it means that Irish consumers will pay higher prices and more jobs will be lost or not be created. “We should only ever countenance counter tariffs if we believe it’s going to take Trump to the negotiating table and that it will lead to de-escalation.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZWC4SRSXLRBZ3PXZT67HXGMTAE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331543},"content":"If we believe what Trump is doing to be an act of self harm, then we shouldn’t rush in to do the same thing from a European point of view.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3KYLQIS6TBCRLCTW3JMQ7KJRGI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331544},"content":"<b>Ged Nash, Labour Party finance spokesman</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"26BRZ5KJENBFJGJHCQP4BS36VI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331545},"content":"In a statement released on Wednesday night, Mr Nash said the EU’s power and agency “Must be used wisely”","type":"text"},{"_id":"WMY5DXCGQJHVRKANIEOAZAA7B4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331546},"content":"“There is an enormous responsibility on the government and the EU to fully digest what’s been announced, and be strategic in how we respond with a ‘negotiations-first’ approach needed.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EEA2IVSQHBGJNL7UZH36L2N7PI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331547},"content":"<b>Cian O’Callaghan, acting leader, Social Democrats</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"HO57TSENJ5FJLGRH4XOR6WDG6M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331548},"content":"The Dublin Bay North TD urged that thereby “no knee jerk reaction from the EU to Trump’s tariffs and that cool heads prevail.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2LX6O6OX5VB6RCTNDVWUELWBII","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331549},"content":"Any escalation could risk Ireland’s pharma and tech sectors being dragged into a cross-Atlantic trade war – with devastating economic consequences.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TVJ7QQJYTRDGLGIIMX4VKWGQ74","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331550},"content":"<b>Roderic O’Gorman, Green Party 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really key that the Irish government do not take a back seat to the EU in our negotiations with the US. Ireland needs to negotiate with the US administration. It is vital that the Irish government be a force for de-escalation in this crisis. If the EU ratchets up retaliation this will hit Ireland the hardest.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"HVMBOUV4U5H3LKMOTRZDUHG5GQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331555},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743690259550},"id":"timestamp-95266","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"3EE76VVDJFHATOFOGGPMQPB2MI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331556},"content":"With the threat of US tariffs on pharmaceutical products still on the table, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said Ireland will maintain its engagement with the Trump administration, the companies involved and the European Commission on the matter.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GWVLCBOZUVGTPF6AYRHULBAOQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331557},"content":"Cormac McQuinn reports:","type":"text"},{"_id":"G4PLYG4QUZGRHKNOVEY6ZNZHNY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331558},"content":"The pharmaceutical sector is a major employer in Ireland as well as a significant contributor to corporation tax receipts.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FGF25TY57BAULPKVVBQ7IBXKB4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331559},"content":"US president Donald Trump has spoken of his wish to bring pharma jobs back to the United States.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FNSFNFX6VBDTFAJMOPPS3YF6HU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331560},"content":"Mr Martin said a “key objective” has been “to convey the complexity of the pharmaceutical story” and how Ireland is part of an “integrated supply chain”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3U4RHPPXSVF33GO3OMHEGIHZ5A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331561},"content":"He said Ireland manufactures a range of goods that are exported to the EU, Asia and the US.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F4H7AQEBXRHKTM5UUCMPREBMKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331562},"content":"“Pharmaceutical goods exported to the US are very often intermediate products that are essential for the finishing of products and the completion of products in the US.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"OLELKKCMAFHKZCR5NYEVZUZI5E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331563},"content":"He said tariffs “could actually increase medicine prices in the United States, which I’m sure the US administration don’t want to do”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6TVAHEIAFFEDRA2BG4WP5HRTQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331564},"content":"Mr Martin also said the level of investment by companies in physical infrastructure in Ireland is “very significant” and “not easily relocatable overnight”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XNIOXCLA4BFF5JZWW6KENA5YTA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331565},"content":"He said there is a “a very significant skill-set” in Ireland “that enables the production of pharmaceuticals to a very high spec and standard” and that “strengthens the US companies, adds value to them”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6PI32JRJK5B6JOBPD6YX6OD2LE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331566},"content":"He added: “There’s a real danger of undermining your own companies, the US companies, by proceeding precipitously or in a premature way.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z6XQKBEA5BEYPF5QEWLHE34RME","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331567},"content":"Mr Martin said: “We’re anxious to engage to find solutions that are beneficial to both.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"7JX4HTKOCBG5NJFBWMKC4EWA3Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331568},"content":"He said there is a similar situation with the manufacture of semiconductors, and spoke of the need to relocate chip manufacturing to Europe and the US from Asia.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4NEBXLKBTRCGTFEI7K6IK6FNTQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331569},"content":"“There’s plenty of room and capacity for semiconductor manufacturing to happen in Europe and across the United States.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OQQEKFLCNBB7HK4PAMSOH6ZPAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331570},"content":"“And then the capacity of any one economy to absorb all of that manufacturing capability is questionable as well, because it needs human capital.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DASHMH7EKBGHBCNLOKJZXVQD2Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331571},"content":"“It needs people at certain skill levels and that cannot happen overnight.","type":"text"},{"_id":"K3NESUZ3KVCCDNLQ2A7HJYVJSM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331572},"content":"“It can’t happen in a year or two. 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This is an indicator that our shareholders are not fully invested in Volvo Cars,” Mr Samuelsson said, adding it would be his job to win that faith back in the company.","type":"text"},{"_id":"37FZZWZPH5AHZBRG5VW7IG3F5M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331579},"content":"He said he would look at ways to cut costs and improve strategy, which would include ramping up its regionalisation efforts with hubs in China, the US and Europe.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4X66PF54F5HCBN3WU22NC7YH5M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331580},"content":"“We are well prepared in China and in Europe. But we need to be better in the US to get around the import tariffs,” Mr Samuelsson said, adding he expected to ramp up production at its Charleston plant in South Carolina. - Reuters","type":"text"},{"_id":"HSW6GAMJ4BE5DCBCEGZPHGAQ3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331581},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743692322387},"id":"timestamp-83231","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"DIRFUQ3W5VCAJMJUY3ZKLSZ3VE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331582},"content":"French president Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday that tariffs announced by President Donald Trump were “brutal and unfounded” and a shock for international trade, and that Europe must respond “industry by industry”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LADN4AZ37VAWPH2YHAFK4GWGPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331583},"content":"Speaking during a meeting with French industry representatives, Mr Macron added that the response to the reciprocal tariffs would be “more massive” than its earlier retaliation to US steel and aluminium tariffs. - Reuters","type":"text"},{"_id":"DWNW3IOPVFFQLOKVL7ZXXPTDEA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331584},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743692531607},"id":"timestamp-31503","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"UQJDOCXKE5HBLOBTALZVEY4S34","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331585},"content":"Two senior politicians on the US Senate Finance Committee are introducing legislation seeking to rein in Donald Trump’s ability to impose tariffs and would require congressional approval for new levies within 60 days.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RRBEQNLOY5H6NPFWNDP5W7GUXM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331586},"content":"Republican Senator Chuck Grassley and Democrat Maria Cantwell - who both serve on the Finance Committee - would require Mr Trump to notify Congress of new tariffs with an explanation of the rationale, including an analysis of the potential impact on US businesses and consumers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VMXANUFGZ5DXZER2H34ZQCZVBE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331587},"content":"Within 60 days, Congress would need to pass a joint resolution of approval of a new tariff, otherwise all new tariffs on imports expire.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2IY6QTUUXNGLZB66SRSI6DUTJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331588},"content":"The Bill is modelled on the War Powers Resolution of 1973, and would reestablish limits on the president’s ability to impose unilateral tariffs without approval from Congress. - Reuters","type":"text"},{"_id":"5VYH3X2FCNANRPRDWRJGFL2DYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331589},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743692760751},"id":"timestamp-61781","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"MEROPQTG75C7ZFBYHKN3TRE6L4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331590},"content":"US stocks have suffered steep falls, with the top index tanking to a six-month low shortly after opening, as Donald Trump’s tariffs reverberated through the world’s financial markets.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WJMYOO4WXNE7RM6YZ6KXH5GPZ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331591},"content":"The S&P 500 plummeted about 4 per cent to 5,440 shortly after markets opened in Wall Street – hitting the lowest level since September.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XPDINQ7R4JEUBIM3PXXGX5DG3Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331592},"content":"The Dow Jones tumbled around 3.6 per cent, while the technology-focused Nasdaq index plunged nearly 5 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3BVSDCFWYRE7VNQCU6HS7WYH24","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331593},"content":"Mr Trump’s plans for sweeping import levies on countries around the world have sent shock waves through global markets.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A3TB3BE7DZCU5NHH7ALEAZEUEI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331594},"content":"The US president said his plans will bolster production in the US and support home-grown goods, but economists have said the short-term impact will be higher prices and slower growth across the economy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KUUPD6GPBNHCLDZHX2SF5FYQBM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331595},"content":"European and UK markets have also been seeing sharp drops in the aftermath of the speech in the White House last night.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GKOAC5CQ2BEMPAQHGIGNA52ULM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331596},"content":"The Dax in Germany was down by about 2.8 per cent, and the Cac 40 had fallen 3.3 per cent by late afternoon.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U2EFRHRIRVBIRNEH4WFHOH3SI4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331597},"content":"In the UK, the FTSE 100 was falling by about 1.5 per cent to a three-month low of 8,476.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TNBQHL3KUND4XCPL2FIKRJXSUI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331598},"content":"The US dollar continued to drop sharply against key currencies on Thursday. It had slumped 2.5 per cent against the euro, at about 0.9, in the afternoon, to hit a six-month low.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZGOTNOEGZVCJZOP6UA2NPL5Z7A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331599},"content":"It was also tumbling around 1.2 per cent against the pound, at 0.76. - PA","type":"text"},{"_id":"BSLJ4QCSJBH4DO5YWZB6D762WY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331600},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743694078059},"id":"timestamp-26874","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"RZ2ZJXOUFZFS7HZHKD6CX3NUXM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331601},"content":"The possibility of different tariff rates on the island of Ireland “further compounds the threat to our national economy,” according to <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/sinn-fein/\" target=\"_self\">Sinn Féin</a>’s spokeswoman on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment Rose Conway-Walsh.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VENQBYTQVJFZXBK6TRBP4PAABM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331602},"content":"Goods from Northern Ireland, as part of the UK, that are exported to the US, face a 10 per cent tariff, whereas those from the South – part of the EU – face 20 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OJ233UXYSZE7RD7BRJXQDDAEWQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331603},"content":"Ms Conway-Walsh said clarity is needed regarding the implications of the tariffs in Northern Ireland under the terms of the Windsor Framework, and called for a “maximum level of engagement” between the Irish Government and the Executive.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PCS76PHBNVDIDGXJ3WGXLRLJ4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331604},"content":"“Our island economy is inextricably linked in sectors such as agriculture, tourism and across supply chains. During the Brexit negotiations, the Irish Government helped ensure there was no hard border on the island of Ireland. The same diligence must be applied in this scenario in order to protect the prosperity of everyone on our island,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3VA4QX4NDVAD3PKNKHSSYZANIM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331605},"content":"Ms Conway-Walsh added while it is “widely acknowledged that US tariffs will damage the Irish economy”, counter-tariffs from the EU could also push up prices for Irish consumers and risk jobs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SG3WCKSY2VB4TENM2MNN2NQXIQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331606},"content":"“I am calling for a measured approach from the Irish Government aimed at de-escalating the situation rather than rushing headlong into the introduction of counter-tariffs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZY44YC7FLNF25P2GOF43BDZ7UA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331607},"content":"“Ireland is uniquely exposed to changes in US economic policy due to our high number of exporting businesses and the historic failure of Irish governments to invest in critical infrastructure such as water, housing and energy supply.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7R6CI5DQCRD3LAXUJCSBN656AU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331608},"content":"“It’s now more important than ever that the Government addresses this underinvestment to increase our global competitiveness,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7UEMSVDH4NGIXM6UVDTSHSE7GQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331609},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743694872983},"id":"timestamp-20131","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"OIOGAR5FYJEGFOSV2HRVZ4W7HU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331610},"content":"Businesses in Northern Ireland are “anxious” about the impact Donald Trump’s tariff announcements will have, First Minister <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/michelle-oneill/\" target=\"_self\">Michelle O’Neill</a> has said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UTYFFH6MLBF77FRKAROXNSCQBY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331611},"content":"The implications of the US announcement were discussed by Stormont ministers at an Executive meeting on Thursday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FSRUPGR7KJCNDL2YYXAUKBO7CY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331612},"content":"“It is very important we continue to be engaged both at a government level, with the Irish Government, with the British government, with the EU level. But also with our local business community here who are anxious about what this means for them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W4NLXLVXVVBUHM7EGICT6T6CTE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331613},"content":"“We want to have a scenario where our bottom line is the protection of jobs, the growth of the economy. It is about ensuring we provide that certainty where we can,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TEDKLUEI7NAP5MR2AMJG6N4ILI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331614},"content":"Tánaiste Simon Harris said he would be in regular contact with Stormont’s leaders on the consequences of most Northern Ireland exports to the US being subject to a 10 per cent tariff, while most goods exported from the Republic of Ireland to the US will have a 20 per cent tariff.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ER6EN4L3JJDUXD2ZGBXZPZ62U4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331615},"content":"Mr Harris said this would create “huge complexities” for products with a cross-Border dimension to their production. He said the issues were similar to those from the Brexit debate around maintaining a frictionless land border on the island of Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IB2TLJS3PVFHBAMGDMZX2KOVNA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331616},"content":"“This does seem like a bit of a throwback to conversations we had in the past, where you have two different realities on the island of Ireland,” Mr Harris told RTÉ’s Radio One. - PA","type":"text"},{"_id":"WPHDPFC5O5D2JEKZLRSDE4BZ6M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331617},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743696960000},"id":"timestamp-4579","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"URIXFPH2XFAIZJBE562HI52FOY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331618},"content":"The initial cost of US tariffs announced yesterday could amount to about €3.6 billion, according to an <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/ibec/\" target=\"_self\">Ibec</a> analysis.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GWU3OCM4O5GHDJ4LNNGKM5WBAM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331619},"content":"The new tariffs will cover 25 per cent of Irish-US exports and are on top of existing tariffs, an increase of 5 percentage points in the effective tariff rate to 6.8 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7D6MNWV3RZEYXGIMP3Y6FYWN6E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331620},"content":"Based on current Irish-US customs trade data, this would be equivalent to an increase in tariffs in cash terms of about €3.6 billion, according to the analysis.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RJLBXAWAQRGMHHOWA7QEWEU7IE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331621},"content":"Separately, a five percentage point increase in the average weighted tariffs on Irish goods flowing to the US will result in a fall in Irish-US goods trade of about 5 per cent to 7.5 per cent in the short run, according to Ibec.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5RMO3FZJLFDZHIAAV4TN6HF5OI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331622},"content":"Ireland to US goods exports make up about 10 per cent of total Irish exports.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J3Y26SXSRFGXJHG4D46DUC4KMQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331623},"content":"“A fall of this magnitude would knock between 1.2 per cent and 1.8 per cent off total Irish goods exports in the short run and between 0.5 per and 0.8 per cent off total exports. A loss of between €4 and €6 billion in trade in the short run from total exports in 2024 of €809 billion,” the Ibec report reads.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MESQCLUGYFAG7ANZMFPFKADDJI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331624},"content":"Noting that timing is “critical”, the analysis states that longer-term tariffs over a multi-year horizon would have “significant and permanent impacts” on Irish exports to the US and services imports from the US. Elasticities will rise over time.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XV6XZFZBSVH5DG5BGOWMB2CYUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331625},"content":"“It is safe to say the announced tariffs on April 2 should be seen as the beginning of a change in the trade environment for Ireland, and not the end,” the analysis reads.","type":"text"},{"_id":"22DEJMX3DFHADO5NKE254OMEUA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331626},"content":"Uncertainty may be the biggest short-term barrier to growth, it says, adding that a shock to certainty globally, “such that we have seen in recent weeks, will have major implications for global investment”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"72X7B32NXNESLA7LHZCQ6X27ZI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331627},"content":"“There is now an increasing chance of the global economy falling into recession in the coming 18 months, with knock-on impacts for small open economies such as Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MPA35E4RIRC6HNWS46EKEG3GBA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331628},"content":"“Ireland’s fiscal position is a benefit coming into a period of turbulence. Of developed economies, Ireland has a debt level which is now around average and a surplus which is well above any other advanced economy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LS4CSO4X4JBFRN6AS554L6MLFQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331629},"content":"“These buffers provide some fiscal buffer against a slowing economy. They still remain very vulnerable, however, to a reliance on a small number of corporates who produce most corporate tax receipts,” the report reads.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2LQEBUU3S5H55ONDIYT5TUQP4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331630},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743700379216},"id":"timestamp-21498","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"OD3ZAYC5IFAUBFHYZ7OHB6KQQE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331631},"content":"UK prime minister <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/keir-starmer/\" target=\"_self\">Keir Starmer </a>has warned that the Trump tariffs are the start of a “new era”, and not just “a short-term tactical exercise”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QWL443HXGBDX5JXQLDYIPOZCGM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331632},"content":"“There’s a really important moment here that we need to understand,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IXLZAPDKARAX5LQDNI72NS77EM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331633},"content":"“Over the last few months we’ve been talking about a new era when it comes to defence and security, and recognising that we are in a changing world, going into a new era, and therefore we have to act and lead differently.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JV275M3P3JA23HDZZRO2LBWE6Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707331634},"content":"“We’re at a similar point for trade and the economy. 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Yoon’s predecessor Chun Doo-hwan, took power after declaring martial law in 1979, then banned his opponents and ordered the army to suppress rebellion, killing hundreds of people.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H2VBQGTEF4YBXULPRL53CZ5YH4","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"FA3F3JE4NRGUTKLQGKWTZW326Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"I4KOX3KJ5NDTLCIZOKGD52V4ZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743935047789},"content":"Yet, despite the relief, “South Koreans are deeply divided over the course their country should take,” warns Alexis Dudden, a professor of history at the University of Connecticut. While Yoon’s attempt to reverse hard-won democratic gains failed, he was a very effective polariser. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"LZCKL6KJLRBL5M2TKFR5JJYU7Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Government was concerned that plans to hike import duties on US bourbon would see Trump retaliate with even higher tariffs on Irish whiskey. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"62BON3GEP5BOBLUMOKJBGMHCWM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ireland has also been in the ear of the commission about dairy products and pharmaceuticals, which account for a huge chunk of Ireland’s exports to the US. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"4G3L4TK645HCVAF5KG767KGXOE","additional_properties":{},"content":"‘The prices are already high for Irish goods here’: Irish-Americans brace themselves for tariffs’ impact","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"YGFFLHTDQNB6XODJO6R324JELA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Germany, Ireland, Italy, France, the Netherlands and Belgium are the EU’s biggest exporters to the US. As a small, open economy with a huge flow of trade to the US, Ireland is the most exposed to a prolonged trade war. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"F6A4RXYDBJEJZBUFYROC7HAVRY","additional_properties":{},"content":"It is understood that European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has privately expressed an appreciation for how Ireland is vulnerable on pharmaceutical exports. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"GJLTTEPMRVCJVL5KEIQD3YBKVE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The pharma sector is a strategically important one for the EU, so the idea of US companies uprooting manufacturing capacity in Ireland and moving it back home is something the commission wants to avoid. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"7VMC4OEHF5BSFG4MIQKYAFU2ME","additional_properties":{},"content":"Pharmaceuticals were not included in the blanket 20 per cent tariffs announced this week, but are expected to be targeted at a later date, possibly at a rate of 25 per cent. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"ADNZVMQFWBBN3GRN6C2A2RYXMQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The aim of the EU’s counter-tariffs is to put pressure on Trump to negotiate. There is no avoiding the fact such retaliation will lead to economic pain in Europe, one commission source said. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"IKEDAVA2ARGMDOZCTSYIIF57XU","additional_properties":{},"content":"The usually leaky bubble of diplomats and officials in Brussels has been much more tight-lipped when it comes to tariff talk. Most of the back and forth is between senior commission figures and politicians in national capitals. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"4775PERLB5HGLINLHG375OAXG4","additional_properties":{},"content":"During the Brexit days Irish officials could hardly have been more in the loop. When the commission was negotiating with the UK in its Berlaymont headquarters in Brussels, an Irish delegation was often holed up in a room two or three doors down the hall, to allow EU officials to pop in to get quick feedback mid-discussion.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5WCLTRDTCHIGEVBC5MMV56OYT4","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"DKXXBR2GGRA2TELUVMU5AMSTRU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Harris has been in regular contact with European trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič, who is taking point on tariffs. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"NFOPMCRMOBGWRI5XEFHKBF3PIE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Harris and the Slovakian politician have spoken on the phone several times in the last fortnight. However, Dublin is just one of 27 capitals that Sefcovic has to try to keep happy and up-to-date. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"QGV5CMTEPBCNTIV265RNHM5IKE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Importantly, backing up Ireland during Brexit did not cost other EU member states anything. There was a sense Ireland should not suffer for the UK’s decision to leave the union. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"45G5CDBZENBFPHHXKITXSPKC5U","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We were pushing an open door,” one Irish official involved at the time said. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"65FVZU6BZNDDDIAAQPDC3456EI","additional_properties":{},"content":"This time around Ireland is economically exposed because of the large concentration of US multinationals, who have for decades availed of its favourable corporate tax arrangements, to the envy and annoyance of European neighbours. 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That is not a recipe for economic prosperity, it is not a recipe for low prices and it’s not a recipe for good jobs in the United States of America.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QELK7O4OGRC3TAWYUKZBKTZMDU","additional_properties":{"_id":"HSGITIGGSNESFIKEAES636CSIQ"},"content":"Trump tariffs: How did the White House come up with different rates for different countries?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"Q3QAMKENMVGKDDVVBMMPKZZRLE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707427848},"content":"“For 40 years we have gone down that pathway. We have seen closing factories, we have seen rising inflation, we have seen the cost of housing so high that most Americans can’t afford to buy a home right now. President Trump is taking this economy in a different direction. He ran on that. 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Reverse time itself.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UIY7JXQWPJH5XO3QWDAOROBEHU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707427854},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"GXYIX2CFJNA3HIW54EJBBIIFSA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707427855},"content":"“My fellow Americans, this is Liberation Day. Waiting for a long time,” Trump declared on his arrival in the Rose Garden. He wore his good coat as the day was brisk.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4ZEQ3HQEOFGENMEGASDKA4SV4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707427856},"content":"“April 2nd, 2025, will forever be remembered as the day American industry was reborn, the day America’s destiny was reclaimed and the day we began to make America wealthy again. For decades our country has been looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far, both friend and foe alike.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7R63HMPURZH7ZH2B5YEDX2QHSM","additional_properties":{"_id":"YFVUQDMVFBCMROXAUKOPYIFUIA"},"content":"Keith Duggan: Donald Trump is nothing if not a showman but his instincts deserted him on ‘Liberation Day’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"OJHKEIZ74RAKDFG7FOI7MZ2ZMQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707427857},"content":"“American autoworkers, steel workers, farmers and skilled craftsman, they really suffered gravely. 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Nobody can accuse him of not having a bold vision.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QOIU3OLXTRH2ZEGURYEZW4XS5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707427861},"content":"Pat Leahy: For Ireland, Trump’s tariffs are very bad news","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"VD4X7XSLKBE2VNIO2G4IWXJQ2I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707427862},"content":"“Everyone seems to decry the fact that we don’t make cars here any more,” Tim Sheehy, the newly elected Montana senator, said on Thursday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YNEFQ5CYTZCXVGSIBSKTAR6ZQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707427863},"content":"“There wasn’t some force field that dropped down, there wasn’t a magical wand that sent manufacturing overseas. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"QVB3YKDTOJH6DO3JHMEBY7WAVQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Trump has made clear the goals he wants to accomplish through the tariffs: bring manufacturing back to the US; respond to unfair trade policies from other countries; increase tax revenue; and incentivise crackdowns on migration and drug trafficking.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NC2YL3LD4ZD7TI5JQGMIYGXMWM","additional_properties":{},"content":"However, the EU and China have promised countermeasures, while South Korea has vowed an “all-out” response. The damage done at a political level with allies such as the UK may also carry its own cost, as billions are wiped off economic growth.","type":"text"},{"_id":"f8ff9978-59d0-4152-955f-9a2788b1e7b0","additional_properties":{},"subtype":"irish-times-video","type":"video"},{"_id":"7NAJWQOD45BYNO2MSRKRX77X6A","additional_properties":{},"content":"Here are some early points to note in the wake of Wednesday’s wide-ranging announcement:","type":"text"},{"_id":"36YXALDJPJHWBCHNIDV4LTPLUU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Firms are bracing for what ‘liberation’ means</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"6XEBZMUSARFXPE2IEBBYQHEKDY","additional_properties":{},"content":"The US president sold the idea of global tariffs with a celebratory air, making good on his campaign trail promise to liberate the nation from higher prices. The president has claimed “prices are way down” since his return to office but anyone who has visited a grocery store in that time might feel differently.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6ZDOQQODLFGJFC27PACOW5F37I","additional_properties":{},"content":"And US firms are apprehensive about the wider effect of this move: higher costs, they warn, will be passed on to their customers. “What we have heard from business of all sizes, across all industries, from around the country is that these broad tariffs are a tax increase that will raise prices for American consumers and hurt the economy,” said Neil Bradley, chief policy officer at the US Chamber of Commerce, the corporate lobby group.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KDA36SNZBVCDPF3X74526UJN24","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Impact on Ireland’s pharma sector unknown</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"AXLTQVAWY5BZFCA2LCTLW24SZI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ireland’s crucial<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/pharma\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/pharma\"> pharmaceutical </a>sector appears to have largely avoided a new US tariff rate for now, amid a broader 20 per cent tax imposed on other goods from the European Union.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EW6GEXQPVBBPJORUKIMSBNO4HE","additional_properties":{},"content":"But the industry, which accounts for a large portion of Irish exports, may be subjected to harsh tariffs at a later date as the White House seeks to increase domestic production.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SXTFRFM6S5F3DAVNFH7OVKDVJ4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Trump announced a minimum baseline tariff of 10 per cent on all imports from all countries, with additional higher rates for some regions – including a 20 per cent tax on goods from Ireland and the rest of the EU.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QD2ELHFGSJAQDNLA3XLNXLQYDE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The 10 per cent rate is effective from April 5th while the “individualised reciprocal higher” rates will be implemented from April 9th.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V36EO33BIBFGNOQSTOCHHBZ6QU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Further information published by the White House after Trump’s address suggests some goods – including pharmaceuticals and semiconductors – “will not be subject to the reciprocal tariff”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OR7KEE2UJJDJ3E54OPBM5BMHNI","additional_properties":{},"content":"During Wednesday’s announcement, Trump said his administration was being “very kind” by implementing tariffs for most trading partners that were essentially half the rate of measures it had calculated was imposed on the US.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AZZJUHNR6NE7VGJIUSVRBT6JLE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ireland was not specifically mentioned in the address, but Trump emphasised his response to the EU.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LEG22ZRNUZEC5OR43DV7M3PD7E","additional_properties":{},"content":"“They rip us off, it is so sad to see – it is so pathetic,\" he said. “They charge us 39 per cent, we’re going to charge 20 per cent – so we’re charging them essentially half.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6MOKLX4KWJCK3I23IHHHMBGFHA","additional_properties":{},"content":"The comments means that the US administration considers that a “full reciprocal” tariff rate for the EU could be 39 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z37OKKRZBBDXTAJDSPCGNISYTE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Politics For Ireland, Trump’s tariffs are bad news indeed","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"CONXADCCA5GUVPETMA7D5EKOB4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>The China link?</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"GXIQ757BJRGYTFBUZZI2JCGLU4","additional_properties":{},"content":"China has been hit particularly hard by the new tariffs, which take the total levy on Chinese imports to over 50 per cent, as well as struggling nations in South-east Asia, including war-torn and earthquake-hit Myanmar.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RHXK5GQGRZEJPC4VQQISGCV2KQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"One theory being put forward is that countries linked to sizeable Chinese investments are being targeted. Dr Siwage Dharma Negara, a senior fellow at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore, said: “The [Trump] administration thinks is that by targeting these countries they can target Chinese investment in countries like Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Indonesia. By targeting their products maybe it will affect Chinese exports and the economy,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5YNP6UUDCFAVLK36BZI5KU5L4M","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The real target is China but the real impact on those countries will be quite significant because this investment creates jobs and export revenue.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"VTAYFIZZKNE3HEAJQPKJVXFKWI","additional_properties":{},"content":"The tariffs comes as many countries in South-east Asia are already grappling with the fallout from the cuts to USAid, which provides humanitarian assistance to a region vulnerable to natural disasters and support for pro-democracy activists battling repressive regimes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YNBK5I4Y7RFUBJSO5HQSRIZ6B4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Key trade partners Canada and Mexico are spared – but will still feel the pain</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"43JKA3DHCNFGPMCVNHSKE2CZPE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Canada and Mexico have been exempted from the latest round of tariffs, but, as prime minister Mark Carney and business leaders reminded everyone, 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum, as well as on automobiles, came into effect hours after Wednesday’s announcement.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2YPMBKS2ZJGLRMVUEU7DNWT3PQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Carney warned that while Trump had preserved key elements of the bilateral relationship, the global tariffs announced earlier in the day “fundamentally change the international trading system”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BWMQQMSDOFEVVOADOABY7KC2GI","additional_properties":{},"content":"The two countries have been hit by previously declared 25 per cent tariffs on many goods over border control and fentanyl trafficking issues, the White House said in a fact sheet.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M3NKHESA7JGIJINRULC24YLOXA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mexico president Claudia Sheinbaum said on Wednesday that her country would not pursue a “tit-for-tat on tariffs” but would rather announce a “comprehensive program” on Thursday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W67WFILN4BEAFODMT2NXVQKBTY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>This is a big gamble</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"JM4OXA4Y4VAF3G6KMFDISMMBGQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Trump himself appears prepared for the announcement to spark a lot of turbulence in markets across the world, saying recently: “There is a period of transition, because what we’re doing is very big.” The universal tariffs come into effect on 5 April, and the reciprocal ones on 9 April, so countries around the world now have a very short space of time in which to choose their path. Some may try to cut a deal with Trump, others may respond with retaliatory tariffs, but a continuing theme will be uncertainty.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OOYXINOTENDMDAENYO3ITACJJM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Absolutely nowhere is immune </b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"SMAWPTKGCRCUPIRE4IJ454FM6M","additional_properties":{},"content":"Heard Island and McDonald Islands are some of the most remote places on Earth, inhabited only by an array of wildlife, yet they are among the “external territories” of Australia listed separately for a 10 per cent tariff.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J2U3QLHN5RCONK36HEFCFEFOTU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Norfolk Island, which lies just of Australia’s east coast, was hit with a tariff of 29 per cent – or 19 percentage points higher than the rest of Australia, prompting Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese to say on Thursday: “I’m not quite sure that Norfolk Island, with respect to it, is a trade competitor with the giant economy of the United States, but that just shows and exemplifies the fact that nowhere on earth is safe from this.” - Guardian ","type":"text"},{"_id":"MAJGTDTNIFFXNGANQ2LKI753FA","content":"<iframe title=\"Trump's tariffs\" aria-label=\"Table\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-mdzWu\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/mdzWu/3/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"691\" data-external=\"1\"></iframe><script type=\"text/javascript\">!function(){\"use strict\";window.addEventListener(\"message\",(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll(\"iframe\");for(var t in a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])for(var r,i=0;r=e[i];i++)if(r.contentWindow===a.source){var d=a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"][t]+\"px\";r.style.height=d}}}))}();\n<\/script>","type":"raw_html"},{"_id":"TS5DYYDSPNA7XC2NLWH2Y73E3Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"}],"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"Move by US president appears set to ignite a global trade war "},"display_date":"2025-04-03T06:53:42.478Z","headlines":{"basic":"Five key tariff takeaways: From the pharma sector to uninhabited islands","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"HAARKEE2MDMVPIEKXNO2OIQGDY","auth":{"1":"3abc4d19fc3a00366ded923a5f13e1b8e5d727d3bf03527d5a299c1c7d2ebbcc"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/HAARKEE2MDMVPIEKXNO2OIQGDY.jpg"}},"subtype":"analysis","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"US"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/us/2025/04/03/trumps-tariffs-five-key-takeaways-from-the-measures/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/us","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"US"}}}},{"_id":"YLQ3T7D3KVD45HFM6RZ3SYOC7Y","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/world/us/2025/04/02/wisconsin-election-gives-democrats-glimmer-of-hope-as-trump-tariff-decision-looms/","content_elements":[{"_id":"NXKBYDBKJJHLNHTSRLDHWJFWHE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487643},"content":"Liberation Day comes in many hues.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UWQAPQWGGRAYHBMDT7X3AJNZWI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487644},"content":"As US president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\">Donald Trump</a> prepares to issue <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/04/01/trump-set-to-go-ahead-with-tariffs-announcement-on-wednesday/\">his general proclamation of a tariff-driven new golden age for America</a> from the fabled Rose Garden of the White House on Wednesday, the vanquished Democratic Party discovered a glimmer of hope after what has been, for them, a relentlessly dark winter.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AQZSOHYOXVGLJOPCRCLLBN2SJI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487645},"content":"It presented itself in the old fashioned guises of an election and a Senate speech.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TCMPQOJ465FDVM574CHV7PCHCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487646},"content":"Shortly after 10pm on Tuesday, Susan Crawford, the liberal candidate for the vacant Wisconsin supreme court seat, comfortably won an election after a vote that was interpreted as a repudiation of the eye-catching intervention of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk\">Elon Musk</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NGBKWDANK5ETXLNTXGCCL2FNLA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487647},"content":"The billionaire had, in recent weeks, contributed breathtaking sums and held a Madison town hall meeting in the state in support of the Republican candidate, Brad Schimel.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X74775P5VBB4LOO7V3KP6WW2JM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487648},"content":"Shortly after 9pm, Schimel called Crawford to concede.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LIUBRTRIA5HIJPCIX75DVK4XJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487649},"content":"“I want to thank him. He was very gracious,” Crawford said in her victory speech, which was preoccupied by Musk’s parachuting into a campaign she had embarked on some 10 months ago.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GGW2S4TENFF5BDHKQJ5PRVQSQ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487650},"content":"“But I gotta tell ya. As a little girl growing up in Chippewa Falls, I never imagined that I would be taking on the richest man in the world for justice in Wisconsin. And we won.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SM55CSRPAZGSHHWTGVVG24YLW4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487651},"content":"“My promise to Wisconsin is clear: I will be a fair, impartial and common sense justice on the Wisconsin supreme court. So today Wisconsinites fended off an unprecedented attack on our democracy, our fair elections and our supreme court.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MPDC4CZBG2ENHWRIUOQTUETHEY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487652},"type":"image"},{"_id":"KRKLJZCQA5HBBEPGAIYU6RZDHY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487653},"content":"“And Wisconsinites stood up loudly and said justice does not have a price. Our courts are not for sale,” Crawford continued in what might have been, in its own understated Midwestern way, the most powerful Democratic speech heard in months.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NTRSPGAOPJFQVBDA3FV6QZLLOI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487654},"content":"The result was the first obvious setback to Musk’s Republican agenda since the November election. In Washington DC, the collective frustration of the Democratic Party was channelled through an extraordinary turn in the Senate chamber by Cory Booker, who stood up to speak on Monday evening and continued for some 25 hours to deliver a speech which he labelled as a critique of this moment in America.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4764ZAD6BRHY7AYXLINVRDEHRI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487655},"content":"Shortly after 7pm on Tuesday in the chamber, Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senate leader, asked Booker if he would yield for a question.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2ELC366HNFC7DDH5HNX7BJHUHQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487656},"content":"“Chuck Schumer, this is the only time I can tell you no,” Booker replied.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OFJS5MRM75EKFIG5AGF7Z44424","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487657},"content":"“I just want to tell you a question: do you know you have just broken the record? Do you know how proud this caucus is of you?” Schumer said. “Do you know how proud America is of you?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TULUZCYOXNHZ7GWNJ2YZR6QZEE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487658},"content":"Booker wiped his brow as euphoric cheers from his party colleagues rolled through the chamber. He put his right hand to his breast.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CI2NANECHNFRJHOD5CTWJENPCM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487659},"content":"By then, he had been speaking for 24 hours and 19 minutes – and he wasn’t done. The record Schumer referenced belonged to Strom Thurmond, the South Carolinian who became one of the leading voices and faces of the pro-segregationist South of the late 1950s.","type":"text"},{"_id":"COF3JSGCNV6TTZBWW2A2PBJMPA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487660},"type":"image"},{"_id":"UXBEUXEXWBBZRP6OA3DXEZROFU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487661},"content":"In August 1957, Thurmond spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes to filibuster or block the Civil Rights Bill, which was passed shortly after he yielded the floor. Thurmond died in 2003, aged 100, without seeing his record broken – although Ted Cruz came close in 2013, with a 21-hour speech.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YIN6ECQAANBIJNUMWYAJADZ65E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487662},"content":"“Maybe I should pull a fire alarm,” Cruz quipped of Booker late on Tuesday afternoon in a social media post. “He is gonna break my record.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5LJN75R5PVEO3GWA4P7AKMYUKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487663},"content":"Booker’s speech was an exercise in stamina but he swung for the fences, relying on evangelical rhetoric and deeply researched references. He wasn’t attempting to thwart any legislative action but more to do something – anything – to shock the Democratic movement out of the sense of inertia or helplessness that has taken hold since their devastating presidential election campaign.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NG3MQG5QORBA3HERT7NWMNGFKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487664},"content":"It was heavily symbolic: here was a black American politician erasing Thurmond’s indelible shadow.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TUR76WIFTBAMNETICNDDY75YGM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487665},"content":"“What you have done here today senator Booker couldn’t be more different than what occurred on this floor in 1957,” Connecticut senator Chris Murphy told him shortly before the record was broken.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2M5U4P3N5BDUVBQRW7Z6M2SRBU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487666},"content":"Murphy had remained with Booker in the Senate chamber throughout Monday night, posting regular intervals from the corridors.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UXFCTVHTXRFU7KI6XV7MCPIM5A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487667},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"2RICRBPXMNFBPPDS5TNINZ24T4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487668},"content":"By Tuesday evening, both Booker and Murphy looked shattered.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QPR6PR5YGRC4TGXIDPIYIHTFJE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487669},"content":"“Strom Thurmond was standing in the way of inevitable progress towards equal political rights and economic rights for black Americans. 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The national attention span has been redefined since the black-and-white age of Strom Thurmond.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UIZMCLCYXRASDPBEMF2OWFSTDY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487671},"content":"Murphy told Booker that 150 million clicks of his speech had been tabulated on a live stream on one social media platform alone. It was a start. 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Fines – who branded Ireland “anti-Semitic” in a social media post last year – had become a source of concern in the final weeks of an underwhelming election campaign in which he badly trailed the fundraising energies of his Democratic opponent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LUKWAAKNLZDMFNLIYKVJ2SLHII","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487675},"content":"Joshua Weil, a teacher and single father from Orlando, managed to outdo Fines, a sitting state senator, by 10 to one. But in an overwhelmingly Red district – Trump won by 30 percentage points in the November election – Fines rallied on a comfortable 15 per cent points to preserve the narrow Republican House majority on Capitol Hill.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KSVFE5HQZ5C4BEJYCZW6F6OAP4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487676},"content":"After that, all eyes moved west to Wisconsin, where the polls closed on what is the most expensive state supreme court election in history.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SFKMGAW7A5HCJOHVNCTNJL5SZA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487677},"content":"Almost $100 million (€92 million) had gone into the race between Crawford and Schimel, whose campaign has been buoyed by a $22 million contribution from Elon Musk, who also flew in to give a Sunday night election town hall in Green Bay.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MVWPNCN4MFESPE7655WHCDQ7MA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487678},"content":"The financial and personal investment by the billionaire – the richest person on the planet and, since November, the “special government employee” tasked with gutting federal spending – became the focal point of the state election.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X65GIK552JCOFFYJPMVOO6H26Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487679},"content":"It was pointed out that Tesla, Musk’s electric vehicle company, is currently challenging a Wisconsin law barring car manufacturers from directly owning dealerships in its state.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IFEHF7AP7NBCNOIGURPHNNUODA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487680},"content":"More generally, the election would swing the balance of power between the enactment of more liberal and conservative legislation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BJ7QPLOGYVHETKQUL7KGBJ76QM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487681},"content":"But Crawford repeatedly referenced Musk’s antics – including wearing a costume cheesehead cap on Sunday evening and handing out two $1 million cheques to random voters.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YSVI654DHVBQFIS4NNFAOTM7SQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487682},"content":"It was Musk’s first campaign stage exposure without the guidance of Trump and the guaranteed devotion of his Maga rally support base.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GTCUUGJJCJFUPHR3Y7H4SKHD5A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487683},"content":"The result is unlikely to spoil Trump’s mood as he gathers his economic wizards for the Rose Garden ceremony, in which he will explain his vision for tariffs to America and the world.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O6U57MOFQVA65HJTA6X243BY3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487684},"content":"The forecast in Washington for Wednesday reads pleasantly, but with warnings of an April wind that may make the afternoon feel cold, and sharp.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Keith Duggan"}},"name":"Keith Duggan"}]},"description":{"basic":"Party emerges from relentlessly dark winter with poll win and voter snub of Elon Musk’s interference"},"display_date":"2025-04-02T05:36:28.238Z","headlines":{"basic":"Wisconsin election gives Democrats glimmer of hope as Trump tariff decision looms","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"YKYXOLQBRHXGST3ON4IRZTHFLA","auth":{"1":"47677016315347ec9683eb94cb6a8ad3f03c186b4c5016d54de53f0c8ec0c7b2"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/YKYXOLQBRHXGST3ON4IRZTHFLA.jpg"}},"subtype":"analysis","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"US"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/us/2025/04/02/wisconsin-election-gives-democrats-glimmer-of-hope-as-trump-tariff-decision-looms/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/us","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"US"}}}},{"_id":"6L2P65RAOFAY5G2QGLSGRFWOVU","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":495,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/557862f6-49db-45ef-b252-740ae87327ee/versions/1743498275/media/fd78830152a808d9434c366789d1c0e2_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/world/europe/2025/04/01/marine-le-pen-french-far-right-paris-court-ruling-politics/","content_elements":[{"_id":"D6QC7BGYHVGQDBO3WEZVZDTKAA","additional_properties":{},"content":"French far-right leader <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/marine-le-pen/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/marine-le-pen/\">Marine Le Pen</a> predicted for months that judges would not dare to immediately ban her from running for office if she was convicted for embezzling EU funds. 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Two years of the sentence could be served under surveillance wearing an ankle bracelet, while the two further years are suspended.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DO7JJANZAJENRNLGHDQOT7RAMU","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Irish Times view on the conviction of Marine Le Pen: a political earthquake in France","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"WTTSBZ7CZNDXROH2WPWSUZH6FM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Had the ban not applied straight away, Le Pen could have pressed on, hoping the appeal would either go in her favour or be decided after the 2027 election, where if she won she would secure legal immunity for the duration of the presidential term.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4GHU7JYNGFFHHHURZMRXI67OSY","additional_properties":{},"content":"In any event, Le Pen will not disappear from the political stage. Even with a conviction, she can continue as a member of France’s National Assembly, where she leads the RN, the largest single opposition party with 123 MPs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TGMVTKB3GFFITGSGQHYEFWRK7U","additional_properties":{},"content":"Only if there was another snap parliamentary election – something that cannot be ruled out given the tumultuous state of French politics – would she be barred from running for office.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YSE5NY4TKJFOFAQLHYJJT6BTPA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Le Pen struck a defiant tone on Monday night, confirming she would appeal against the judges’ ruling and not give up on her presidential ambitions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"94305f2d-472a-45d6-9d78-8d8e5d7ab07b","additional_properties":{},"subtype":"irish-times-video","type":"video"},{"_id":"BIPESDS6YZDORFNYIKNSUF3GYQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I didn’t think that the judges would go so far as to oppose our democratic process and interfere in the choice of the French people like this,” Le Pen told TF1 television. “There are millions of French people who believe in me, who trust me, and I want to tell them ‘I’ve been fighting for you for 30 years . . . and I’ll keep doing it, all the way to the end’.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2E7BBVSU4RBH7H23WKB67GEXOY","additional_properties":{},"content":"In her roughly three-decade political career, Le Pen has expanded the far right’s appeal by seeking to “detoxify” the RN’s image from its racist and xenophobic past and winning over working-class and rural voters. She notably expelled her father <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/jean-marie-le-pen/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/jean-marie-le-pen/\">Jean-Marie Le Pen</a> from the movement that he founded more than 50 years ago – the Front National – to advocate for a hard line on <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/immigration/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/immigration/\">immigration</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VY2IWYLV5JDWJD3J2DSG2EVY7I","additional_properties":{},"content":"Once called ‘the devil of the Republic’, Jean-Marie Le Pen died knowing his ideas are gaining currency","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"V5QZYKUBZJBDBFNZ6C62TXBMBY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Marine Le Pen’s efforts have largely paid off, with steady growth in the RN’s vote share to about one-third of the electorate. 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It has long been run as a top-down organisation, with Le Pen as the ultimate decision maker on every strategic issue or significant electoral tactic.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QO6E3SUOSFG43GTBXCNTK3SDG4","additional_properties":{},"content":"She is surrounded by a tight circle of allies, including her deputy Jordan Bardella, who is the party chief and a member of the European Parliament.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7HXGEU3S3FDABIXB7F7BUQHQZ4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Bardella (29) has run the RN since 2022, and has recently been criticised internally for not building out the party sufficiently at a local level or professionalising its operations. Although few dare complain publicly, some RN officials say he is more focused on maximising his own popularity via a high-profile book tour and regular videos on TikTok.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6VINWSG5V5DXDGKTCJM5BEW7QI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Le Pen declared last year that she and Bardella formed “a ticket”, meaning he would be her prime minister if she was elected president. The pair have always maintained there is no rivalry between them, nor policy divisions, but they have differed on business and economic policy. The court ruling will test their bond and whether, with Le Pen weakened, cracks emerge in the facade of unity.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LLPWGUZV3RE73DGORS22NKER5I","additional_properties":{},"content":"Who could stand for RN in the 2027 election instead?","type":"header"},{"_id":"ECWJRVMT75FLPHSCYBR6LITYXI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Bardella would be the most obvious alternative RN presidential candidate. Although young and without a university degree, he has been immersed in politics since Le Pen plucked him from the northern Paris suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis in 2019 to be a local councillor.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RT4TAXBF2FGKRDZFKZDPLCWJCY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Jordan Bardella is an incredible asset to the movement, and I’ve been saying that for a long time,” Le Pen said on Monday. “I hope we won’t have to call on that asset unless it’s truly necessary.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"7QSORWFB4IFNPBC5WNLZLGFUNI","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"Y5EB6QMAOFCSJKRV3VVPNOET3Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"Bardella is a polished communicator on television and social media. But he sometimes loses his footing during political debates or under tough questioning from the media, when he has shown a lack of knowledge about policy details or international issues. His personal ratings in opinion polls are currently higher than Le Pen’s, but not when people are asked about their preferred RN presidential candidate.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4HYVJ5IJINGTFJKYQAH3KW6QAU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Within the RN, not everyone is convinced of Bardella as a plan B, questioning whether he could win the 2027 election and also whether he is capable of doing the job of president.","type":"text"},{"_id":"34GOAYKHMNAKDAQ2MUDRSSLYD4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mujtaba Rahman, managing director for Europe at the Eurasia Group consultancy, said Bardella could face “a revolt” within the RN’s different factions if he seeks to take the mantle of presidential candidate from Le Pen.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CQ5E37EX2ZD5PHSS7QOVOV6SOA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“He should not be written off but his chances of taking the far right to victory in 2027 would, in our view, be significantly less than Le Pen’s.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"N6M7DPXZCVDDNKHCJLGLMLHTWQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"One radical option is available to the RN: flipping the “ticket” so Bardella would be president and Le Pen would be his prime minister. Asked about such a scenario, she said: “I’m not in that frame of mind, and I’m not ready to submit to such a denial of democracy so easily.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KCYHD43FF5ALLIQ3MLJFI6KWSM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Where does this leave French politics?","type":"header"},{"_id":"SFJRL47X4RDVDCRYJV5MQIDSRQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The court’s surprise ruling has in effect fired the starting gun on the race to succeed President <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/emmanuel-macron/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/emmanuel-macron/\">Emmanuel Macron</a> in 2027. Although contenders were already manoeuvring, the prospect of the far right without Le Pen as its candidate will profoundly change the political landscape.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BZMUUIEWKBD2ZGWBLQMG6D772U","additional_properties":{},"content":"Le Pen was considered a shoo-in to make the run-off in the presidential election since she has a reliable base of supporters. Attention has focused on who would be opposite to her.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FUCTITRPDNB2DEYQE2ZJCB4QBE","additional_properties":{},"content":"If she is out, one beneficiary would be centre-right candidate Edouard Philippe, a former prime minister under Macron, since he will have less competition for the conservative vote. Left-wing candidates would hope they can woo back working-class voters who had switched to the RN.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HV5MDLJULVBVROPFBNDMC65WRY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Yet some of Le Pen’s rivals have spoken out since the court verdict to condemn her potential exclusion. They have used the same populist language as the RN, condemning the judges for over-reaching despite the fact they were applying legislation written by lawmakers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KEKIOUAKDZD23IXMLKRDATKA7Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"Laurent Wauquiez, head of the conservative Les Républicains who holds presidential ambitions, said the ruling was “unhealthy” for French democracy. “Political debates must be decided at the ballot box, by the French people,” he said on X.","type":"text"},{"_id":"45VASVWNXJCEDMLOY45SRRR7PE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Former president François Hollande, a potential candidate from the centre-left, was more measured. “The only reaction we should have is to respect the independence of the judiciary,” he said on BFMTV.<i> – </i>Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2025","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Leila Abboud in Paris"}]},"description":{"basic":"Far-right leader Marine Le Pen has limited legal options as ruling fires starting gun on race to succeed Emmanuel Macron"},"display_date":"2025-04-01T08:58:37.141Z","headlines":{"basic":"Has the court ended Marine Le Pen’s political career and what happens to her RN party now?","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"DYAQSGPGJJPXZKF67XYYDWROXE","auth":{"1":"bff3a0deca34faeb497cd5ce3fc414aeff6b47859444aa8a7da5d1df2e8a52e4"},"focal_point":{"x":1523,"y":731},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/DYAQSGPGJJPXZKF67XYYDWROXE.jpg"}},"subtype":"analysis","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Europe"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/europe/2025/04/01/marine-le-pen-french-far-right-paris-court-ruling-politics/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/europe","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Europe"}}}},{"_id":"343SGBBRM5BFZFDA262TI5OXVE","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":245,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/171015b2-5b2e-40be-b584-b72f938a49de/versions/1743442622/media/c7099cadc9f19e55128672d25a6b6198_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/world/europe/2025/03/31/romanian-hard-right-leader-simion-leads-opinion-poll-before-election/","content_elements":[{"_id":"VO6TELFUWVH6THOPSCMPFFJAVU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Hard-right opposition leader George Simion led an opinion poll published on Monday, five weeks before the first round of a repeat presidential election that could determine whether Romania remains on its pro-Western course.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7ECUOT7TFFAPVJVFIONYVT6SOM","additional_properties":{},"content":"The European Union and Nato member, which borders Ukraine, will repeat the two-round election on May 4th and 18th after the constitutional court <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2024/12/06/romanias-top-court-annuls-first-round-of-presidential-vote-won-by-far-right-candidate/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2024/12/06/romanias-top-court-annuls-first-round-of-presidential-vote-won-by-far-right-candidate/\">voided the initial ballot in December</a> following accusations of Russian meddling, which Moscow denied.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QEOMWCNMEZH35GS6SZRBPYURFU","additional_properties":{},"content":"With the cancelled election’s far-right frontrunner, Calin Georgescu, banned from running again, ultranationalists have regrouped around Mr Simion, leader of the opposition Alliance for Uniting Romanians (AUR), Romania’s second-largest party.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AC7VJBGIVFDUPCS3YPDDJ3FJFM","additional_properties":{},"content":"An opinion poll conducted by polling institute Verifield and commissioned by Nicusor Dan, one of the candidates, showed Mr Simion was on course to secure 35 per cent of votes in the first round, slightly higher than in earlier polls.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NU65H6V4HNEXHPD3YKKF3U6Q6E","additional_properties":{},"content":"It showed Victor Ponta, a former leftist prime minister whose politics have since become more ultranationalist, would win 21.1 per cent of votes and that Bucharest mayor Mr Dan, running as an independent, would get 20.8 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UNYKVSCJBBBGPIHG4K6D2EEL5A","additional_properties":{},"content":"The new poll put support for Mr Simion’s AUR at 31.7 per cent and showed the ruling Social Democrats trailing on 21.2 per cent. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"OOK6FA7PEZGMPKMCO4XCVAXCAU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Efforts to moderate the party her father Jean-Marie Le Pen founded, to make it more palatable to mainstream conservative voters, had been bearing fruit. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"VZ7UFATRE5AKFBAKO2STG6NMN4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Her planned fourth run for president in 2027 was to be the culmination of all that work. Le Pen was seen as having a credible chance of winning, a result that would have upended both French and European politics. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"4SQ6NUVEAZGZ3L5RON534Q6CM4","additional_properties":{},"content":"That march towards the Élysée Palace appears to have been stopped by a French court ruling that will have huge ramifications. 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Yoon’s predecessor Chun Doo-hwan, took power after declaring martial law in 1979, then banned his opponents and ordered the army to suppress rebellion, killing hundreds of people.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H2VBQGTEF4YBXULPRL53CZ5YH4","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"FA3F3JE4NRGUTKLQGKWTZW326Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"I4KOX3KJ5NDTLCIZOKGD52V4ZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743935047789},"content":"Yet, despite the relief, “South Koreans are deeply divided over the course their country should take,” warns Alexis Dudden, a professor of history at the University of Connecticut. While Yoon’s attempt to reverse hard-won democratic gains failed, he was a very effective polariser. 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When the commission was negotiating with the UK in its Berlaymont headquarters in Brussels, an Irish delegation was often holed up in a room two or three doors down the hall, to allow EU officials to pop in to get quick feedback mid-discussion.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5WCLTRDTCHIGEVBC5MMV56OYT4","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"DKXXBR2GGRA2TELUVMU5AMSTRU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Harris has been in regular contact with European trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič, who is taking point on tariffs. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"NFOPMCRMOBGWRI5XEFHKBF3PIE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Harris and the Slovakian politician have spoken on the phone several times in the last fortnight. However, Dublin is just one of 27 capitals that Sefcovic has to try to keep happy and up-to-date. 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And to return the US to a lost Valhalla.","type":"text"},{"_id":"27GOHV6A7JFHPAKU7E7Q5Z3ABQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707427846},"content":"Vance described the four decades of open trading as disastrous for the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/republican-party/\" target=\"_self\">Republican</a> heartland of America, when the US wilfully “incurred a huge amount of debt to buy things that other countries make for us”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JUXO2GLNVVDFZPIMJNBVJJ4VNU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707427847},"content":"Vance continued: “To make it a little bit more crystal clear: we borrow things from Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants manufacture. That is not a recipe for economic prosperity, it is not a recipe for low prices and it’s not a recipe for good jobs in the United States of America.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QELK7O4OGRC3TAWYUKZBKTZMDU","additional_properties":{"_id":"HSGITIGGSNESFIKEAES636CSIQ"},"content":"Trump tariffs: How did the White House come up with different rates for different countries?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"Q3QAMKENMVGKDDVVBMMPKZZRLE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707427848},"content":"“For 40 years we have gone down that pathway. We have seen closing factories, we have seen rising inflation, we have seen the cost of housing so high that most Americans can’t afford to buy a home right now. President Trump is taking this economy in a different direction. He ran on that. 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Reverse time itself.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UIY7JXQWPJH5XO3QWDAOROBEHU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707427854},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"GXYIX2CFJNA3HIW54EJBBIIFSA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707427855},"content":"“My fellow Americans, this is Liberation Day. Waiting for a long time,” Trump declared on his arrival in the Rose Garden. He wore his good coat as the day was brisk.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4ZEQ3HQEOFGENMEGASDKA4SV4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707427856},"content":"“April 2nd, 2025, will forever be remembered as the day American industry was reborn, the day America’s destiny was reclaimed and the day we began to make America wealthy again. For decades our country has been looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far, both friend and foe alike.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7R63HMPURZH7ZH2B5YEDX2QHSM","additional_properties":{"_id":"YFVUQDMVFBCMROXAUKOPYIFUIA"},"content":"Keith Duggan: Donald Trump is nothing if not a showman but his instincts deserted him on ‘Liberation Day’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"OJHKEIZ74RAKDFG7FOI7MZ2ZMQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707427857},"content":"“American autoworkers, steel workers, farmers and skilled craftsman, they really suffered gravely. They watched in anguish as foreign leaders have stolen our jobs, foreign cheaters have ransacked our factories and foreign scavengers have torn apart our once beautiful American dream.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BXOWDJG7UJAI5CHUAC2V4WBSUQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707427858},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"MMMTJMCWL5GYVJLKD3KYMCI6RM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707427859},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"JT3HFSCH7VF3BIBQY2QEUFDUSM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707427860},"content":"Returning the US to its roaring, manufacturing postwar zenith is what Trump promised over and over again in his campaign. Nobody can accuse him of not having a bold vision.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QOIU3OLXTRH2ZEGURYEZW4XS5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707427861},"content":"Pat Leahy: For Ireland, Trump’s tariffs are very bad news","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"VD4X7XSLKBE2VNIO2G4IWXJQ2I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707427862},"content":"“Everyone seems to decry the fact that we don’t make cars here any more,” Tim Sheehy, the newly elected Montana senator, said on Thursday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YNEFQ5CYTZCXVGSIBSKTAR6ZQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743707427863},"content":"“There wasn’t some force field that dropped down, there wasn’t a magical wand that sent manufacturing overseas. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"QVB3YKDTOJH6DO3JHMEBY7WAVQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Trump has made clear the goals he wants to accomplish through the tariffs: bring manufacturing back to the US; respond to unfair trade policies from other countries; increase tax revenue; and incentivise crackdowns on migration and drug trafficking.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NC2YL3LD4ZD7TI5JQGMIYGXMWM","additional_properties":{},"content":"However, the EU and China have promised countermeasures, while South Korea has vowed an “all-out” response. The damage done at a political level with allies such as the UK may also carry its own cost, as billions are wiped off economic growth.","type":"text"},{"_id":"f8ff9978-59d0-4152-955f-9a2788b1e7b0","additional_properties":{},"subtype":"irish-times-video","type":"video"},{"_id":"7NAJWQOD45BYNO2MSRKRX77X6A","additional_properties":{},"content":"Here are some early points to note in the wake of Wednesday’s wide-ranging announcement:","type":"text"},{"_id":"36YXALDJPJHWBCHNIDV4LTPLUU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Firms are bracing for what ‘liberation’ means</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"6XEBZMUSARFXPE2IEBBYQHEKDY","additional_properties":{},"content":"The US president sold the idea of global tariffs with a celebratory air, making good on his campaign trail promise to liberate the nation from higher prices. The president has claimed “prices are way down” since his return to office but anyone who has visited a grocery store in that time might feel differently.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6ZDOQQODLFGJFC27PACOW5F37I","additional_properties":{},"content":"And US firms are apprehensive about the wider effect of this move: higher costs, they warn, will be passed on to their customers. “What we have heard from business of all sizes, across all industries, from around the country is that these broad tariffs are a tax increase that will raise prices for American consumers and hurt the economy,” said Neil Bradley, chief policy officer at the US Chamber of Commerce, the corporate lobby group.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KDA36SNZBVCDPF3X74526UJN24","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Impact on Ireland’s pharma sector unknown</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"AXLTQVAWY5BZFCA2LCTLW24SZI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ireland’s crucial<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/pharma\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/pharma\"> pharmaceutical </a>sector appears to have largely avoided a new US tariff rate for now, amid a broader 20 per cent tax imposed on other goods from the European Union.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EW6GEXQPVBBPJORUKIMSBNO4HE","additional_properties":{},"content":"But the industry, which accounts for a large portion of Irish exports, may be subjected to harsh tariffs at a later date as the White House seeks to increase domestic production.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SXTFRFM6S5F3DAVNFH7OVKDVJ4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Trump announced a minimum baseline tariff of 10 per cent on all imports from all countries, with additional higher rates for some regions – including a 20 per cent tax on goods from Ireland and the rest of the EU.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QD2ELHFGSJAQDNLA3XLNXLQYDE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The 10 per cent rate is effective from April 5th while the “individualised reciprocal higher” rates will be implemented from April 9th.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V36EO33BIBFGNOQSTOCHHBZ6QU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Further information published by the White House after Trump’s address suggests some goods – including pharmaceuticals and semiconductors – “will not be subject to the reciprocal tariff”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OR7KEE2UJJDJ3E54OPBM5BMHNI","additional_properties":{},"content":"During Wednesday’s announcement, Trump said his administration was being “very kind” by implementing tariffs for most trading partners that were essentially half the rate of measures it had calculated was imposed on the US.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AZZJUHNR6NE7VGJIUSVRBT6JLE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ireland was not specifically mentioned in the address, but Trump emphasised his response to the EU.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LEG22ZRNUZEC5OR43DV7M3PD7E","additional_properties":{},"content":"“They rip us off, it is so sad to see – it is so pathetic,\" he said. “They charge us 39 per cent, we’re going to charge 20 per cent – so we’re charging them essentially half.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6MOKLX4KWJCK3I23IHHHMBGFHA","additional_properties":{},"content":"The comments means that the US administration considers that a “full reciprocal” tariff rate for the EU could be 39 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z37OKKRZBBDXTAJDSPCGNISYTE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Politics For Ireland, Trump’s tariffs are bad news indeed","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"CONXADCCA5GUVPETMA7D5EKOB4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>The China link?</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"GXIQ757BJRGYTFBUZZI2JCGLU4","additional_properties":{},"content":"China has been hit particularly hard by the new tariffs, which take the total levy on Chinese imports to over 50 per cent, as well as struggling nations in South-east Asia, including war-torn and earthquake-hit Myanmar.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RHXK5GQGRZEJPC4VQQISGCV2KQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"One theory being put forward is that countries linked to sizeable Chinese investments are being targeted. Dr Siwage Dharma Negara, a senior fellow at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore, said: “The [Trump] administration thinks is that by targeting these countries they can target Chinese investment in countries like Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Indonesia. By targeting their products maybe it will affect Chinese exports and the economy,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5YNP6UUDCFAVLK36BZI5KU5L4M","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The real target is China but the real impact on those countries will be quite significant because this investment creates jobs and export revenue.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"VTAYFIZZKNE3HEAJQPKJVXFKWI","additional_properties":{},"content":"The tariffs comes as many countries in South-east Asia are already grappling with the fallout from the cuts to USAid, which provides humanitarian assistance to a region vulnerable to natural disasters and support for pro-democracy activists battling repressive regimes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YNBK5I4Y7RFUBJSO5HQSRIZ6B4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Key trade partners Canada and Mexico are spared – but will still feel the pain</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"43JKA3DHCNFGPMCVNHSKE2CZPE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Canada and Mexico have been exempted from the latest round of tariffs, but, as prime minister Mark Carney and business leaders reminded everyone, 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum, as well as on automobiles, came into effect hours after Wednesday’s announcement.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2YPMBKS2ZJGLRMVUEU7DNWT3PQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Carney warned that while Trump had preserved key elements of the bilateral relationship, the global tariffs announced earlier in the day “fundamentally change the international trading system”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BWMQQMSDOFEVVOADOABY7KC2GI","additional_properties":{},"content":"The two countries have been hit by previously declared 25 per cent tariffs on many goods over border control and fentanyl trafficking issues, the White House said in a fact sheet.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M3NKHESA7JGIJINRULC24YLOXA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mexico president Claudia Sheinbaum said on Wednesday that her country would not pursue a “tit-for-tat on tariffs” but would rather announce a “comprehensive program” on Thursday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W67WFILN4BEAFODMT2NXVQKBTY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>This is a big gamble</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"JM4OXA4Y4VAF3G6KMFDISMMBGQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Trump himself appears prepared for the announcement to spark a lot of turbulence in markets across the world, saying recently: “There is a period of transition, because what we’re doing is very big.” The universal tariffs come into effect on 5 April, and the reciprocal ones on 9 April, so countries around the world now have a very short space of time in which to choose their path. Some may try to cut a deal with Trump, others may respond with retaliatory tariffs, but a continuing theme will be uncertainty.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OOYXINOTENDMDAENYO3ITACJJM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Absolutely nowhere is immune </b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"SMAWPTKGCRCUPIRE4IJ454FM6M","additional_properties":{},"content":"Heard Island and McDonald Islands are some of the most remote places on Earth, inhabited only by an array of wildlife, yet they are among the “external territories” of Australia listed separately for a 10 per cent tariff.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J2U3QLHN5RCONK36HEFCFEFOTU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Norfolk Island, which lies just of Australia’s east coast, was hit with a tariff of 29 per cent – or 19 percentage points higher than the rest of Australia, prompting Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese to say on Thursday: “I’m not quite sure that Norfolk Island, with respect to it, is a trade competitor with the giant economy of the United States, but that just shows and exemplifies the fact that nowhere on earth is safe from this.” - Guardian ","type":"text"},{"_id":"MAJGTDTNIFFXNGANQ2LKI753FA","content":"<iframe title=\"Trump's tariffs\" aria-label=\"Table\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-mdzWu\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/mdzWu/3/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"691\" data-external=\"1\"></iframe><script type=\"text/javascript\">!function(){\"use strict\";window.addEventListener(\"message\",(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll(\"iframe\");for(var t in a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])for(var r,i=0;r=e[i];i++)if(r.contentWindow===a.source){var d=a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"][t]+\"px\";r.style.height=d}}}))}();\n<\/script>","type":"raw_html"},{"_id":"TS5DYYDSPNA7XC2NLWH2Y73E3Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"}],"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"Move by US president appears set to ignite a global trade war "},"display_date":"2025-04-03T06:53:42.478Z","headlines":{"basic":"Five key tariff takeaways: From the pharma sector to uninhabited islands","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"HAARKEE2MDMVPIEKXNO2OIQGDY","auth":{"1":"3abc4d19fc3a00366ded923a5f13e1b8e5d727d3bf03527d5a299c1c7d2ebbcc"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/HAARKEE2MDMVPIEKXNO2OIQGDY.jpg"}},"subtype":"analysis","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"US"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/us/2025/04/03/trumps-tariffs-five-key-takeaways-from-the-measures/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/us","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"US"}}}},{"_id":"YLQ3T7D3KVD45HFM6RZ3SYOC7Y","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/world/us/2025/04/02/wisconsin-election-gives-democrats-glimmer-of-hope-as-trump-tariff-decision-looms/","content_elements":[{"_id":"NXKBYDBKJJHLNHTSRLDHWJFWHE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487643},"content":"Liberation Day comes in many hues.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UWQAPQWGGRAYHBMDT7X3AJNZWI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487644},"content":"As US president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\">Donald Trump</a> prepares to issue <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/04/01/trump-set-to-go-ahead-with-tariffs-announcement-on-wednesday/\">his general proclamation of a tariff-driven new golden age for America</a> from the fabled Rose Garden of the White House on Wednesday, the vanquished Democratic Party discovered a glimmer of hope after what has been, for them, a relentlessly dark winter.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AQZSOHYOXVGLJOPCRCLLBN2SJI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487645},"content":"It presented itself in the old fashioned guises of an election and a Senate speech.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TCMPQOJ465FDVM574CHV7PCHCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487646},"content":"Shortly after 10pm on Tuesday, Susan Crawford, the liberal candidate for the vacant Wisconsin supreme court seat, comfortably won an election after a vote that was interpreted as a repudiation of the eye-catching intervention of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk\">Elon Musk</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NGBKWDANK5ETXLNTXGCCL2FNLA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487647},"content":"The billionaire had, in recent weeks, contributed breathtaking sums and held a Madison town hall meeting in the state in support of the Republican candidate, Brad Schimel.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X74775P5VBB4LOO7V3KP6WW2JM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487648},"content":"Shortly after 9pm, Schimel called Crawford to concede.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LIUBRTRIA5HIJPCIX75DVK4XJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487649},"content":"“I want to thank him. He was very gracious,” Crawford said in her victory speech, which was preoccupied by Musk’s parachuting into a campaign she had embarked on some 10 months ago.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GGW2S4TENFF5BDHKQJ5PRVQSQ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487650},"content":"“But I gotta tell ya. As a little girl growing up in Chippewa Falls, I never imagined that I would be taking on the richest man in the world for justice in Wisconsin. And we won.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SM55CSRPAZGSHHWTGVVG24YLW4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487651},"content":"“My promise to Wisconsin is clear: I will be a fair, impartial and common sense justice on the Wisconsin supreme court. So today Wisconsinites fended off an unprecedented attack on our democracy, our fair elections and our supreme court.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MPDC4CZBG2ENHWRIUOQTUETHEY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487652},"type":"image"},{"_id":"KRKLJZCQA5HBBEPGAIYU6RZDHY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487653},"content":"“And Wisconsinites stood up loudly and said justice does not have a price. Our courts are not for sale,” Crawford continued in what might have been, in its own understated Midwestern way, the most powerful Democratic speech heard in months.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NTRSPGAOPJFQVBDA3FV6QZLLOI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487654},"content":"The result was the first obvious setback to Musk’s Republican agenda since the November election. In Washington DC, the collective frustration of the Democratic Party was channelled through an extraordinary turn in the Senate chamber by Cory Booker, who stood up to speak on Monday evening and continued for some 25 hours to deliver a speech which he labelled as a critique of this moment in America.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4764ZAD6BRHY7AYXLINVRDEHRI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487655},"content":"Shortly after 7pm on Tuesday in the chamber, Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senate leader, asked Booker if he would yield for a question.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2ELC366HNFC7DDH5HNX7BJHUHQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487656},"content":"“Chuck Schumer, this is the only time I can tell you no,” Booker replied.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OFJS5MRM75EKFIG5AGF7Z44424","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487657},"content":"“I just want to tell you a question: do you know you have just broken the record? Do you know how proud this caucus is of you?” Schumer said. “Do you know how proud America is of you?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TULUZCYOXNHZ7GWNJ2YZR6QZEE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487658},"content":"Booker wiped his brow as euphoric cheers from his party colleagues rolled through the chamber. He put his right hand to his breast.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CI2NANECHNFRJHOD5CTWJENPCM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487659},"content":"By then, he had been speaking for 24 hours and 19 minutes – and he wasn’t done. The record Schumer referenced belonged to Strom Thurmond, the South Carolinian who became one of the leading voices and faces of the pro-segregationist South of the late 1950s.","type":"text"},{"_id":"COF3JSGCNV6TTZBWW2A2PBJMPA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487660},"type":"image"},{"_id":"UXBEUXEXWBBZRP6OA3DXEZROFU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487661},"content":"In August 1957, Thurmond spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes to filibuster or block the Civil Rights Bill, which was passed shortly after he yielded the floor. Thurmond died in 2003, aged 100, without seeing his record broken – although Ted Cruz came close in 2013, with a 21-hour speech.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YIN6ECQAANBIJNUMWYAJADZ65E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487662},"content":"“Maybe I should pull a fire alarm,” Cruz quipped of Booker late on Tuesday afternoon in a social media post. “He is gonna break my record.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5LJN75R5PVEO3GWA4P7AKMYUKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487663},"content":"Booker’s speech was an exercise in stamina but he swung for the fences, relying on evangelical rhetoric and deeply researched references. He wasn’t attempting to thwart any legislative action but more to do something – anything – to shock the Democratic movement out of the sense of inertia or helplessness that has taken hold since their devastating presidential election campaign.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NG3MQG5QORBA3HERT7NWMNGFKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487664},"content":"It was heavily symbolic: here was a black American politician erasing Thurmond’s indelible shadow.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TUR76WIFTBAMNETICNDDY75YGM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487665},"content":"“What you have done here today senator Booker couldn’t be more different than what occurred on this floor in 1957,” Connecticut senator Chris Murphy told him shortly before the record was broken.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2M5U4P3N5BDUVBQRW7Z6M2SRBU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487666},"content":"Murphy had remained with Booker in the Senate chamber throughout Monday night, posting regular intervals from the corridors.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UXFCTVHTXRFU7KI6XV7MCPIM5A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487667},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"2RICRBPXMNFBPPDS5TNINZ24T4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487668},"content":"By Tuesday evening, both Booker and Murphy looked shattered.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QPR6PR5YGRC4TGXIDPIYIHTFJE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487669},"content":"“Strom Thurmond was standing in the way of inevitable progress towards equal political rights and economic rights for black Americans. 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The national attention span has been redefined since the black-and-white age of Strom Thurmond.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UIZMCLCYXRASDPBEMF2OWFSTDY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487671},"content":"Murphy told Booker that 150 million clicks of his speech had been tabulated on a live stream on one social media platform alone. It was a start. 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Fines – who branded Ireland “anti-Semitic” in a social media post last year – had become a source of concern in the final weeks of an underwhelming election campaign in which he badly trailed the fundraising energies of his Democratic opponent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LUKWAAKNLZDMFNLIYKVJ2SLHII","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487675},"content":"Joshua Weil, a teacher and single father from Orlando, managed to outdo Fines, a sitting state senator, by 10 to one. But in an overwhelmingly Red district – Trump won by 30 percentage points in the November election – Fines rallied on a comfortable 15 per cent points to preserve the narrow Republican House majority on Capitol Hill.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KSVFE5HQZ5C4BEJYCZW6F6OAP4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487676},"content":"After that, all eyes moved west to Wisconsin, where the polls closed on what is the most expensive state supreme court election in history.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SFKMGAW7A5HCJOHVNCTNJL5SZA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487677},"content":"Almost $100 million (€92 million) had gone into the race between Crawford and Schimel, whose campaign has been buoyed by a $22 million contribution from Elon Musk, who also flew in to give a Sunday night election town hall in Green Bay.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MVWPNCN4MFESPE7655WHCDQ7MA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487678},"content":"The financial and personal investment by the billionaire – the richest person on the planet and, since November, the “special government employee” tasked with gutting federal spending – became the focal point of the state election.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X65GIK552JCOFFYJPMVOO6H26Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487679},"content":"It was pointed out that Tesla, Musk’s electric vehicle company, is currently challenging a Wisconsin law barring car manufacturers from directly owning dealerships in its state.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IFEHF7AP7NBCNOIGURPHNNUODA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487680},"content":"More generally, the election would swing the balance of power between the enactment of more liberal and conservative legislation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BJ7QPLOGYVHETKQUL7KGBJ76QM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487681},"content":"But Crawford repeatedly referenced Musk’s antics – including wearing a costume cheesehead cap on Sunday evening and handing out two $1 million cheques to random voters.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YSVI654DHVBQFIS4NNFAOTM7SQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487682},"content":"It was Musk’s first campaign stage exposure without the guidance of Trump and the guaranteed devotion of his Maga rally support base.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GTCUUGJJCJFUPHR3Y7H4SKHD5A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487683},"content":"The result is unlikely to spoil Trump’s mood as he gathers his economic wizards for the Rose Garden ceremony, in which he will explain his vision for tariffs to America and the world.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O6U57MOFQVA65HJTA6X243BY3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487684},"content":"The forecast in Washington for Wednesday reads pleasantly, but with warnings of an April wind that may make the afternoon feel cold, and sharp.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Keith Duggan"}},"name":"Keith Duggan"}]},"description":{"basic":"Party emerges from relentlessly dark winter with poll win and voter snub of Elon Musk’s interference"},"display_date":"2025-04-02T05:36:28.238Z","headlines":{"basic":"Wisconsin election gives Democrats glimmer of hope as Trump tariff decision looms","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"YKYXOLQBRHXGST3ON4IRZTHFLA","auth":{"1":"47677016315347ec9683eb94cb6a8ad3f03c186b4c5016d54de53f0c8ec0c7b2"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/YKYXOLQBRHXGST3ON4IRZTHFLA.jpg"}},"subtype":"analysis","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"US"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/us/2025/04/02/wisconsin-election-gives-democrats-glimmer-of-hope-as-trump-tariff-decision-looms/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/us","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"US"}}}},{"_id":"6L2P65RAOFAY5G2QGLSGRFWOVU","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":495,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/557862f6-49db-45ef-b252-740ae87327ee/versions/1743498275/media/fd78830152a808d9434c366789d1c0e2_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/world/europe/2025/04/01/marine-le-pen-french-far-right-paris-court-ruling-politics/","content_elements":[{"_id":"D6QC7BGYHVGQDBO3WEZVZDTKAA","additional_properties":{},"content":"French far-right leader <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/marine-le-pen/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/marine-le-pen/\">Marine Le Pen</a> predicted for months that judges would not dare to immediately ban her from running for office if she was convicted for embezzling EU funds. 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Two years of the sentence could be served under surveillance wearing an ankle bracelet, while the two further years are suspended.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DO7JJANZAJENRNLGHDQOT7RAMU","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Irish Times view on the conviction of Marine Le Pen: a political earthquake in France","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"WTTSBZ7CZNDXROH2WPWSUZH6FM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Had the ban not applied straight away, Le Pen could have pressed on, hoping the appeal would either go in her favour or be decided after the 2027 election, where if she won she would secure legal immunity for the duration of the presidential term.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4GHU7JYNGFFHHHURZMRXI67OSY","additional_properties":{},"content":"In any event, Le Pen will not disappear from the political stage. Even with a conviction, she can continue as a member of France’s National Assembly, where she leads the RN, the largest single opposition party with 123 MPs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TGMVTKB3GFFITGSGQHYEFWRK7U","additional_properties":{},"content":"Only if there was another snap parliamentary election – something that cannot be ruled out given the tumultuous state of French politics – would she be barred from running for office.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YSE5NY4TKJFOFAQLHYJJT6BTPA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Le Pen struck a defiant tone on Monday night, confirming she would appeal against the judges’ ruling and not give up on her presidential ambitions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"94305f2d-472a-45d6-9d78-8d8e5d7ab07b","additional_properties":{},"subtype":"irish-times-video","type":"video"},{"_id":"BIPESDS6YZDORFNYIKNSUF3GYQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I didn’t think that the judges would go so far as to oppose our democratic process and interfere in the choice of the French people like this,” Le Pen told TF1 television. “There are millions of French people who believe in me, who trust me, and I want to tell them ‘I’ve been fighting for you for 30 years . . . and I’ll keep doing it, all the way to the end’.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2E7BBVSU4RBH7H23WKB67GEXOY","additional_properties":{},"content":"In her roughly three-decade political career, Le Pen has expanded the far right’s appeal by seeking to “detoxify” the RN’s image from its racist and xenophobic past and winning over working-class and rural voters. She notably expelled her father <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/jean-marie-le-pen/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/jean-marie-le-pen/\">Jean-Marie Le Pen</a> from the movement that he founded more than 50 years ago – the Front National – to advocate for a hard line on <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/immigration/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/immigration/\">immigration</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VY2IWYLV5JDWJD3J2DSG2EVY7I","additional_properties":{},"content":"Once called ‘the devil of the Republic’, Jean-Marie Le Pen died knowing his ideas are gaining currency","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"V5QZYKUBZJBDBFNZ6C62TXBMBY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Marine Le Pen’s efforts have largely paid off, with steady growth in the RN’s vote share to about one-third of the electorate. 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It has long been run as a top-down organisation, with Le Pen as the ultimate decision maker on every strategic issue or significant electoral tactic.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QO6E3SUOSFG43GTBXCNTK3SDG4","additional_properties":{},"content":"She is surrounded by a tight circle of allies, including her deputy Jordan Bardella, who is the party chief and a member of the European Parliament.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7HXGEU3S3FDABIXB7F7BUQHQZ4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Bardella (29) has run the RN since 2022, and has recently been criticised internally for not building out the party sufficiently at a local level or professionalising its operations. Although few dare complain publicly, some RN officials say he is more focused on maximising his own popularity via a high-profile book tour and regular videos on TikTok.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6VINWSG5V5DXDGKTCJM5BEW7QI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Le Pen declared last year that she and Bardella formed “a ticket”, meaning he would be her prime minister if she was elected president. The pair have always maintained there is no rivalry between them, nor policy divisions, but they have differed on business and economic policy. The court ruling will test their bond and whether, with Le Pen weakened, cracks emerge in the facade of unity.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LLPWGUZV3RE73DGORS22NKER5I","additional_properties":{},"content":"Who could stand for RN in the 2027 election instead?","type":"header"},{"_id":"ECWJRVMT75FLPHSCYBR6LITYXI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Bardella would be the most obvious alternative RN presidential candidate. Although young and without a university degree, he has been immersed in politics since Le Pen plucked him from the northern Paris suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis in 2019 to be a local councillor.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RT4TAXBF2FGKRDZFKZDPLCWJCY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Jordan Bardella is an incredible asset to the movement, and I’ve been saying that for a long time,” Le Pen said on Monday. “I hope we won’t have to call on that asset unless it’s truly necessary.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"7QSORWFB4IFNPBC5WNLZLGFUNI","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"Y5EB6QMAOFCSJKRV3VVPNOET3Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"Bardella is a polished communicator on television and social media. But he sometimes loses his footing during political debates or under tough questioning from the media, when he has shown a lack of knowledge about policy details or international issues. His personal ratings in opinion polls are currently higher than Le Pen’s, but not when people are asked about their preferred RN presidential candidate.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4HYVJ5IJINGTFJKYQAH3KW6QAU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Within the RN, not everyone is convinced of Bardella as a plan B, questioning whether he could win the 2027 election and also whether he is capable of doing the job of president.","type":"text"},{"_id":"34GOAYKHMNAKDAQ2MUDRSSLYD4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mujtaba Rahman, managing director for Europe at the Eurasia Group consultancy, said Bardella could face “a revolt” within the RN’s different factions if he seeks to take the mantle of presidential candidate from Le Pen.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CQ5E37EX2ZD5PHSS7QOVOV6SOA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“He should not be written off but his chances of taking the far right to victory in 2027 would, in our view, be significantly less than Le Pen’s.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"N6M7DPXZCVDDNKHCJLGLMLHTWQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"One radical option is available to the RN: flipping the “ticket” so Bardella would be president and Le Pen would be his prime minister. Asked about such a scenario, she said: “I’m not in that frame of mind, and I’m not ready to submit to such a denial of democracy so easily.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KCYHD43FF5ALLIQ3MLJFI6KWSM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Where does this leave French politics?","type":"header"},{"_id":"SFJRL47X4RDVDCRYJV5MQIDSRQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The court’s surprise ruling has in effect fired the starting gun on the race to succeed President <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/emmanuel-macron/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/emmanuel-macron/\">Emmanuel Macron</a> in 2027. Although contenders were already manoeuvring, the prospect of the far right without Le Pen as its candidate will profoundly change the political landscape.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BZMUUIEWKBD2ZGWBLQMG6D772U","additional_properties":{},"content":"Le Pen was considered a shoo-in to make the run-off in the presidential election since she has a reliable base of supporters. Attention has focused on who would be opposite to her.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FUCTITRPDNB2DEYQE2ZJCB4QBE","additional_properties":{},"content":"If she is out, one beneficiary would be centre-right candidate Edouard Philippe, a former prime minister under Macron, since he will have less competition for the conservative vote. Left-wing candidates would hope they can woo back working-class voters who had switched to the RN.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HV5MDLJULVBVROPFBNDMC65WRY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Yet some of Le Pen’s rivals have spoken out since the court verdict to condemn her potential exclusion. They have used the same populist language as the RN, condemning the judges for over-reaching despite the fact they were applying legislation written by lawmakers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KEKIOUAKDZD23IXMLKRDATKA7Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"Laurent Wauquiez, head of the conservative Les Républicains who holds presidential ambitions, said the ruling was “unhealthy” for French democracy. “Political debates must be decided at the ballot box, by the French people,” he said on X.","type":"text"},{"_id":"45VASVWNXJCEDMLOY45SRRR7PE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Former president François Hollande, a potential candidate from the centre-left, was more measured. “The only reaction we should have is to respect the independence of the judiciary,” he said on BFMTV.<i> – </i>Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2025","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Leila Abboud in Paris"}]},"description":{"basic":"Far-right leader Marine Le Pen has limited legal options as ruling fires starting gun on race to succeed Emmanuel Macron"},"display_date":"2025-04-01T08:58:37.141Z","headlines":{"basic":"Has the court ended Marine Le Pen’s political career and what happens to her RN party now?","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"DYAQSGPGJJPXZKF67XYYDWROXE","auth":{"1":"bff3a0deca34faeb497cd5ce3fc414aeff6b47859444aa8a7da5d1df2e8a52e4"},"focal_point":{"x":1523,"y":731},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/DYAQSGPGJJPXZKF67XYYDWROXE.jpg"}},"subtype":"analysis","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Europe"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/europe/2025/04/01/marine-le-pen-french-far-right-paris-court-ruling-politics/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/europe","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Europe"}}}},{"_id":"343SGBBRM5BFZFDA262TI5OXVE","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":245,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/171015b2-5b2e-40be-b584-b72f938a49de/versions/1743442622/media/c7099cadc9f19e55128672d25a6b6198_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/world/europe/2025/03/31/romanian-hard-right-leader-simion-leads-opinion-poll-before-election/","content_elements":[{"_id":"VO6TELFUWVH6THOPSCMPFFJAVU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Hard-right opposition leader George Simion led an opinion poll published on Monday, five weeks before the first round of a repeat presidential election that could determine whether Romania remains on its pro-Western course.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7ECUOT7TFFAPVJVFIONYVT6SOM","additional_properties":{},"content":"The European Union and Nato member, which borders Ukraine, will repeat the two-round election on May 4th and 18th after the constitutional court <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2024/12/06/romanias-top-court-annuls-first-round-of-presidential-vote-won-by-far-right-candidate/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2024/12/06/romanias-top-court-annuls-first-round-of-presidential-vote-won-by-far-right-candidate/\">voided the initial ballot in December</a> following accusations of Russian meddling, which Moscow denied.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QEOMWCNMEZH35GS6SZRBPYURFU","additional_properties":{},"content":"With the cancelled election’s far-right frontrunner, Calin Georgescu, banned from running again, ultranationalists have regrouped around Mr Simion, leader of the opposition Alliance for Uniting Romanians (AUR), Romania’s second-largest party.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AC7VJBGIVFDUPCS3YPDDJ3FJFM","additional_properties":{},"content":"An opinion poll conducted by polling institute Verifield and commissioned by Nicusor Dan, one of the candidates, showed Mr Simion was on course to secure 35 per cent of votes in the first round, slightly higher than in earlier polls.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NU65H6V4HNEXHPD3YKKF3U6Q6E","additional_properties":{},"content":"It showed Victor Ponta, a former leftist prime minister whose politics have since become more ultranationalist, would win 21.1 per cent of votes and that Bucharest mayor Mr Dan, running as an independent, would get 20.8 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UNYKVSCJBBBGPIHG4K6D2EEL5A","additional_properties":{},"content":"The new poll put support for Mr Simion’s AUR at 31.7 per cent and showed the ruling Social Democrats trailing on 21.2 per cent. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"OOK6FA7PEZGMPKMCO4XCVAXCAU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Efforts to moderate the party her father Jean-Marie Le Pen founded, to make it more palatable to mainstream conservative voters, had been bearing fruit. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"VZ7UFATRE5AKFBAKO2STG6NMN4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Her planned fourth run for president in 2027 was to be the culmination of all that work. Le Pen was seen as having a credible chance of winning, a result that would have upended both French and European politics. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"4SQ6NUVEAZGZ3L5RON534Q6CM4","additional_properties":{},"content":"That march towards the Élysée Palace appears to have been stopped by a French court ruling that will have huge ramifications. 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We have a long way to go before we think about that.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"MCKOMV542JBTXIYCPICH53SHWA","additional_properties":{},"content":"He also voiced cautious criticism of the role of Russian president Vladimir Putin on the proposed peace deal with Ukraine but stated his belief that he would not go back on his word.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MQUPKW6X35EIXBLDANNSCRAKZQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I don’t think he is going to go back on his word. I have known him a long time. We have always gotten along. I think he will be okay. I was disappointed in a certain way with some of the things that were said over the last day or two having to do with Zelenskiy because whether he considers Zelenskiy not credible, he is supposed to be making a deal with him. Whether you like him or don’t like him. 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They interrupted a parliamentary session to give Trump a standing ovation and chant his name. Some Polish MPs even sported red “Make America Great Again” caps.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OQYI7NG67RHWNF5U2Z3IHAHCSU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Like many other nationalist parties in central and eastern Europe, Poland’s Law and Justice party (PiS) shares a socially conservative and anti-immigration view of the world with Trump’s Maga movement. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"TJQUSKZIEVBBHJFRWRM2XZYP2I","additional_properties":{},"content":"“People knew Trump 2.0 could be more difficult than his first term, but I think that Trump’s rhetoric and what’s been happening so far have basically been pointing towards most nightmares coming true,” says Piotr Buras, head of the Warsaw office of the European Council on Foreign Relations. “Yes, there are politicians here who are playing things down... but I think the shock is still very, very deep,” he adds.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G6UDAS7TWJD4FN5WNW5ZQ4JT3Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"The geopolitical disruption is hardly confined to Poland. The US president is also casting a long shadow on countries up and down the eastern flank of Nato, as he and Putin negotiate an end to the war in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/ukraine-crisis/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/ukraine-crisis/\">Ukraine</a> that many fear will be reached on the US’s and Russia’s own terms. 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A self-confessed admirer of Trump and Putin, Orban has visited both Mar-a-Lago and Moscow in the past year, endorsed the peace talks and warned that Budapest will seek to block Ukraine’s bid to join the EU.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5L32LACH2JG2XKMKXBY7UJMDSY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/slovakia/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/slovakia/\">Slovakia</a>’s <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/robert-fico/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/robert-fico/\">Robert Fico</a>, who like Trump survived an attempt on his life last year, has also visited Putin, and described Ukraine’s president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/volodymyr-zelenskiy/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/volodymyr-zelenskiy/\">Volodymyr Zelenskiy</a> as “an enemy”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2ASGYMWOUVFXNP7IZPPUOSTZPA","additional_properties":{},"content":"When Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt acceded to Joseph Stalin’s demand for a Soviet “sphere of influence” in Europe at Yalta in 1945, eastern Europe’s postwar fate was sealed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B5GCBRSQYNENJKXUVWI6WATL2A","additional_properties":{},"content":"From the Baltic states and Poland in the north to Romania and Bulgaria in the south, the Trump-Putin rapprochement has rekindled memories of that dubious bargain. Romanian presidential adviser Cristian Diaconescu has warned of a return to the “gates of hell” if it is repeated. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"PLJ4JHG5ZHPN2XLSRA7VH5HR4Y","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"YWKASGYAQNBXVDCYIQS3JA2H5Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I lived through that period of what Yalta means. Eleven-hour gasoline lines, poverty, cold in the houses, women dying in hospitals... two-hour TV adulations of the supreme leader,” Diaconescu told a Bucharest TV host in February. “Nobody should think we’re having a theoretical, esoteric discussion about global strategies that nobody understands anything about.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"T6RYFMCBRREQRFL2VUL6E2LXVQ","additional_properties":{},"content":" In Poland, cosying up to Moscow is even less tolerable. The PiS’s anti-Russia stance is a very personal one for its leader and former prime minister, Jaroslaw Kaczynski. In 2010, his twin brother Lech, at the time the country’s president, was killed in a plane crash in Russia. He blames Putin, and also continues to accuse his domestic political rival, prime minister Donald Tusk, of helping to cover up what lay behind the crash. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"BSTDIHNAVFG2PJFWSWHLIBYU4M","additional_properties":{},"content":"When the PiS presidential candidate Karol Nawrocki argued in January against Ukraine joining Nato or the EU, Tusk reminded Kaczynski that Lech was among the first European leaders to support Ukraine’s accession bids. “Aren’t you ashamed?” Tusk asked Kaczynski on X.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M2QKND2CM5HMJKQJI7IZPNBCDQ","subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"KJAVWYNGBRAS5EVWEADPS6UCHY","additional_properties":{},"content":"By contrast, support for the US across the region is anchored in strong economic and military ties that date back to George HW Bush, the US president when communism in eastern Europe collapsed in 1989. Under his successors, Washington swiftly became the main driver for the former eastern bloc countries to join Nato starting in 1999 — before they became EU members and before Putin became president of Russia.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DPRQ5CELKJETZOGRKGRSKFHAVU","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Trump administration has been quick to assert influence over the region. After Romania’s constitutional court annulled the results of the first round of its presidential election last December, US vice-president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/jd-vance/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/jd-vance/\">JD Vance</a> denounced the move from the podium of the Munich Security Conference, saying the decision was “based on the flimsy suspicions of an intelligence agency and enormous pressure from its continental neighbours”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V7TUQAN5CRHSFOMHZUPTKP6PMY","additional_properties":{},"content":"In countries such as Hungary and Poland, the US presence grew during Trump’s first term, helped in part by his personal relationships with leaders such as Orban and Andrzej Duda, the Polish president whose second and final term is now drawing to a close.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SRWWLMS4PGO7SIFOTSV7WRSYOA","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"2SLGAYEAMNAALCKXSO556G356I","additional_properties":{},"content":"But the latest version of Trump has also caught some of his most ardent supporters in the region flat-footed. Duda’s meeting with Trump in February sparked social media jokes in Poland after it was downgraded to a 10-minute conversation and overshadowed by the preceding TV footage of Duda pacing around a room, because Trump arrived more than one hour late. Simion was limited to taking selfies with Trump in the background when he visited the CPAC gathering in February.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S5N7PLUCY5GLXPWNUNWBDMJFQY","additional_properties":{},"content":"For now, there is no sign of the region unwinding from the US. Tusk, whose Civic Platform party is back in government, has inherited an agreement with Westinghouse to build Poland’s first nuclear power plant, despite lobbying by France’s EDF to replace the US company.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ULECLF5YABCGHNNRRPL2QCDELQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Hungary drifts further from EU consensus on Ukraine war","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"I2C4EW6DCJBDPORD2CSZ7LRLRY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Poland has also allocated 4.7 per cent of this year’s budget to defence, the highest of any Nato member. But even as Tusk embraces European efforts to build conventional military as well as nuclear autonomy from the US, his government remains committed to massive acquisitions of US weaponry, including a near $2 billion (€1.8 billion) contract for Patriot air defence missiles signed on Tuesday. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"42WXKOOCUJCFZNWBNE2IZJ7ES4","additional_properties":{},"content":"In Trump’s first term, Romania pledged to expand its nuclear power plant with US technology, including a fleet of small modular reactors. In addition to close military co-operation with Washington, Romania has now signed more than $15 billion worth of energy projects with US companies, ranging from the nuclear projects to Neptune Deep, a natural gas project in the Black Sea. Talks are ongoing about hydropower in Romania’s Carpathian Mountains.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4T7KPBG3AFDGJK3MVQ4LVTI3EQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"But some business executives are now warning about a slowdown in investments, given the heightened geopolitical uncertainty. Last year “everyone said that Romania was the place to be”, recalls Razvan Nicolescu, a former Romanian energy minister and business consultant in Bucharest. But since Trump took office, “everything changed”, he adds. “Investors are now putting [projects] on hold.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KCSQTPWIPJCDHEUIHUG2LGOYC4","additional_properties":{},"content":"As in Poland, France is offering to replace the US as an investor in sectors including nuclear energy. This proposal is “better than nothing, but if the US really leaves, it’s going to be tough going”, says Sorin Ionita, head of the Expert Forum think-tank in Bucharest.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5DCMHIZ5YBHP7LIYAYOXXFVFYQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Even as Trump escalates his tariff war against the EU and other trade partners, few in central and eastern Europe are willing to contemplate life without US backing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QDCJHA4FMJABVBUWBADDR6LGZ4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Vance’s tirade in Munich shocked not only those in the room but also many in Romania, who never expected a top US official would single out their country as a prime example of Europe’s democratic flaws. “Romania always regarded the US as a strategic partnership,” says Sandu Valentin Mateiu, a retired general and security expert in Bucharest. “We don’t have an alternative.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"SDFNOMTD5BCAVIM35VTHS737CY","additional_properties":{},"content":"At the same time, some central European politicians have been the main troublemakers within the EU, despite the economic benefits that membership of the bloc has brought to the region. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"AAR5T2GRBC57WRIELFRU2AHEMM","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"OT7TQUJ7JVFZRG7VONYREIOUDY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Orban and Fico were not invited to talks last month hosted by Paris and London about how to secure Ukraine post-conflict and rearm Europe to reduce its military reliance on the US. The two were the only EU leaders to visit Putin last year, generating protests and prompting disquiet among EU officials in Brussels. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"GMNSQDLASBH4NEZCCNECKBNRSI","additional_properties":{},"content":"During its eight years in office, the PiS government feuded with the European Commission, particularly after the latter froze billions of euro of Poland’s EU money in protest at PiS weakening the independence of the Polish judiciary. 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At the time, the far-right Confederation party jointly led by Slawomir Mentzen was the lone voice calling for limitations on the help granted to refugees. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"46PDBVWSNNDJLMXQO4GZ2MIGIA","subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"P4OYS22XWNCNTLFDH2F3IH374Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mentzen is now Confederation’s candidate for the Polish presidency, an election in which most of the candidates are seeking to turn growing fatigue over Ukrainian refugees into votes. PiS is adopting a more hardline message towards Ukraine, in part to counter Mentzen’s momentum in opinion polls. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"LF2SEO3QZBFCBDG76RFWWQFUYE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Civic Platform candidate and frontrunner Rafal Trzaskowski also said in January that Ukrainian refugees should no longer be eligible for Poland’s child subsidy scheme unless they work and pay taxes in Poland. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"HUOTBQYBUSDA4ZRFP6WENOEPTE","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"PQK2CZP6QRBHTIKQJCCVDNUV4I","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ukrainians living in Poland resent disparaging comments in hospitals or public transport, such as being told to learn better Polish. “We were warmly welcomed as victims, people who literally fled death,” says Anna Nowak, who escaped Kyiv for Warsaw in March 2022. “But those of us who decided to stay here are seen now mostly as economic competitors or even intruders by many Poles.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"NN246PKBMZAL5MZD7QZTQN57G4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Talk of Ukraine joining the EU has alarmed many Polish voters, who fear the impact its large neighbour might have on some sectors of the country’s economy, particularly agriculture. “All politicians read the same polls, the same analysis of how attitudes towards Ukrainian people are getting worse, so they react to that,” says Polityka Insight’s Szacki.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EKPHZQA4TVGTDCOBET2M6NIJPM","additional_properties":{},"content":"The political rhetoric is also heating up. On the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Mentzen visited the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, where he launched a fierce attack on Ukrainian nationalism and its responsibility for the killings of about 100,000 Poles during the 1940s in Volhynia, a region now part of Ukraine.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5RAMPWJKXBD6HBLPFOPVX6WAYI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Michael McGrath: Prospect of Russian tanks invading an EU state no longer ‘unthinkable’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"FIY7EDVU75E7BHOKVM4S4NPWZA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Lviv’s mayor, Andriy Sadovyi, denounced him as a “pro-Russian politician with a Polish passport”, to which Mentzen retorted that, if elected, he would ban Sadovyi from entering Poland. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"HJXC5DKWVZAGFP3XCKFHWMFEJA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Romania’s Simion has been banned from Ukraine since 2000 for “systematic anti-Ukrainian activities”, according to Ukraine’s security services, which regard his advocacy of territorial reunification with ethnic Romanians residing in Ukraine and neighbouring Moldova as a violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"MEZFUS4DAFDPLMYEO433U55AHE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Simion is also banned from Moldova. Speaking to the Financial Times, he toned down his territorial ambitions, saying that any border change could only happen if approved by referendums held in the relevant countries.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F57WHGJXZFDSNIXRUBQMCD7LEI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Hungary’s Orban recently talked of “a territory called Ukraine” whose only aspiration should be to become “a buffer zone” between Nato and Russia, while Fico used a tennis analogy in February to describe talks between Washington and Moscow over an end to the war. On Facebook, he claimed that the “presidential pair” of Putin and Trump would win a doubles match with Ukraine and the EU “6-0, 6-0, 6-0”. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZLLWXLIIBRBP7CESEVJK54EN4M","additional_properties":{},"content":"For some of the region’s politicians, anti-Ukrainian rhetoric has become a way to reconcile their long-standing fears about Russia with their enduring faith in America as a protector.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VCIZCBVPXBFE3KJJ5QLDKVAGDE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The [Trump-Putin] situation is forcing parties to become inconsistent, and that’s especially glaring when it comes to PiS, which says it’s anti-Russian but also strongly for Trump and counting on Republican support in the upcoming election,” says Adam Leszczynski, director of the Gabriel Narutowicz Institute of Political Thought, a Polish government think-tank.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EDH6VNNA3NGUVD4IL75YD2DMUU","additional_properties":{},"content":"He adds that this is why politicians “talk about Ukraine being a country with big problems and corruption and about Ukrainians behaving irresponsibly in Poland”. It is easier than drawing attention to their own inconsistencies “which really only matter if their electorate cares about them”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QER3YONO35CHHAPVT5KOHPRD44","additional_properties":{},"content":"But some observers feel this smokescreen cannot last indefinitely. “We felt the tragedy of Yalta for 50 years, so any discussion of Yalta 2.0 concerns our big fear,” says Dan Tapalaga, editor of G4media, a prominent Romanian news site. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"7BQWGUI5MNAQBHJHACBL7P7UVE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“With the US and Russia drawing closer, where will we be when all is said and done? Nobody has the answer now.” - Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2025","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Raphael Minder in Warsaw and Marton Dunai in Bucharest"}]},"description":{"basic":"Rehabilitation of Vladimir Putin poses awkward questions for those who admire Donald Trump but are suspicious of Moscow"},"display_date":"2025-04-06T10:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"US overtures to Russia shake up central European politics","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"YGYYEB46EW6N77JDMVZ5M6T7XU","auth":{"1":"aab98e98941db48c24f9649ccbe779228041e8426f068dffd1bb5c093f350cd5"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/YGYYEB46EW6N77JDMVZ5M6T7XU.jpg"}},"subtype":"feature","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Europe"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/europe/2025/04/06/us-overtures-to-russia-shake-up-central-european-politics/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/europe","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Europe"}}}},{"_id":"JY4MIKONOBBFZAGZRSL7NEO2RM","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":670,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/a7bd84ea-b483-461e-8900-95fc07d98e06/versions/1743924843/media/adf72893ff3c400011c6d75d1072d06d_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/world/middle-east/2025/04/06/they-destroyed-this-moment-of-joy-on-the-frontlines-of-the-israeli-incursion-into-syria/","content_elements":[{"_id":"CBLQPQCAOZD5LPMSWQPO754NOY","additional_properties":{},"content":"The trail of an Israeli warplane was visible in the sky, on the approach to the southern <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/syria/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/syria/\">Syrian</a> village of Chajara, where Wissam, a 41-year-old mother of six, lay on a cushion, waiting to undergo surgery to remove shrapnel from her body. The surgery will cost €2,000(€1,800), money her family is trying to raise through donations from neighbours. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"KBDPOU3E6VFS7DOTGD5HRNWIJY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Wissam said about 11 people – children, men and women – were farming in the upper part of a valley by the nearby village of Koya on Tuesday, March 25th, when the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/israel/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/israel/\">Israeli</a> attacks began. “We were far away, they just bombed us immediately ... We are three sisters-in-law that were injured and one man,” she said. One of the women lost a leg, while shrapnel struck another in her pelvis. At least six people were killed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IPJ2NTNL55F2VDB5GKHBQW5GLY","additional_properties":{},"content":"In the valley in Daraa governorate’s western countryside where the attacks happened, spattered blood still shone red on the rocks. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"L4O2X3O6QFHPFLVPXATDQOQWFY","additional_properties":{},"content":"During Syria’s long war, this region experienced a brutal siege by the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/bashar-al-assad/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/bashar-al-assad/\">Assad</a> regime, and the rise and fall of the<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/islamic-state/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/islamic-state/\">Islamic State</a> terror group. Daraa city, about 40km from Koya, is known as the “cradle” of Syria’s revolution, which began in 2011. Now residents are grappling with a new challenge: incursions from Israel. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"IYV5GLAZERBA3FLNY6JCY7CU2A","additional_properties":{},"content":"After the March 25th strikes on Koya, male elders gathered at the local mosque to pay their respects to those killed, as locals struggled to comprehend what was happening to their homeland. “We are here gathering because we want to give our condolences and stand with the people,” said village elder Mahmoud Musalam. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"WPBACIMO6ZGERDGQV5C6HGUQGU","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"BVWYWNV3XNAQDEJ6EMD3WX6ABM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Travelling through southern Syria last week, The Irish Times heard stories of detentions of Syrian civilians, seizures and confiscations of land and property, regular Israeli patrols, and also softer approaches, such as the distribution by the Israelis of food baskets – all inside Syrian territory. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y6TVYHOTP5GPNLUFGAUYS4YVFY","additional_properties":{},"content":"An <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/israel-defence-forces/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/israel-defence-forces/\">Israel Defense Forces</a> spokesperson said the military was operating in Syria “in order to protect the residents of the Golan Heights” and would ”continue to act as necessary to defend the state of Israel and its citizens, in accordance with international law”. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"IHBBY5KK6JE55ELF53AIOLP42E","additional_properties":{},"content":"In Koya, Israeli forces had “acted to neutralise the threat posed” by “several terrorists who opened fire at them”, the spokesperson said. Some locals told The Irish Times Syrian armed men had come to the area where the attacks happened, but suggested they were attempting to protect Syrian civilians from Israeli soldiers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"53WLNPW77NCNFPLG3QEEDDE5KI","additional_properties":{},"content":"* * *","type":"text"},{"_id":"RSSQ7V5NR5HNRE7OS3DECR4NZE","additional_properties":{},"content":"In December, the first days after the fall of the Assad regime, Israel launched close to 500 air strikes across Syria, saying it wanted to prevent weapons stockpiles and military installations from being used by “terrorist elements”. Its forces also launched a land invasion, seizing a demilitarised, UN-monitored buffer zone in the Golan Heights, then moving beyond it. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"P25H2CTZ4ZF5ZDUZTCY4X2ANOU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Charles Lister, a senior fellow and head of the Syria Initiative at the Middle East Institute, said the killings at Koya followed 70 previous Israeli incursions into Syria over the last few months. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"CVRJH54INVCMDDAK6ZA7BGPRDE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Aware of how fractured Syria is, the interim government in Damascus is attempting to unify the country and its armed forces. But Israel says it will “not allow” new government forces to move south of Damascus, with Israeli prime minister <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/binyamin-netanyahu/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/binyamin-netanyahu/\">Binyamin Netanyahu</a> saying in February that he “demand[s] full demilitarisation of southern Syria”. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"JHCMW3OEPNHF7CJLXN7UA55RKI","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"HHWJYMR3LNGBDLQUPG3RVM2CMA","additional_properties":{},"content":"This comes despite new president Ahmed al-Sharaa – whose family come from the occupied Golan Heights – saying he will not let Syria be used as a launch pad for attacks on Israel and that he is committed to the 1974 agreement between the countries. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"KYQCD7SXQZBJZNQJWHMTWV5G6M","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The IDF is prepared to stay in Syria for an unlimited amount of time,” said Israeli defence minister Israel Katz during a visit on March 12th to Mount Hermon, Syria’s highest peak, located close to the border with Lebanon, and 40km from the capital, Damascus.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JSTELKQXLZETVJWJANC56YCPG4","additional_properties":{},"content":"On Wednesday, Israel launched another wave of air strikes <a href=\"https://x.com/AvichayAdraee/status/1907518944715722943\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://x.com/AvichayAdraee/status/1907518944715722943\">targeting “military capabilities”</a> and infrastructure sites in Damascus, Hama and Homs, in what the new Syrian government called a violation of international law and Syrian sovereignty, and “a deliberate attempt to destabilise”. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"BVOUT5RQ3JETDJ5BLDZJZ6QCBI","additional_properties":{},"content":"While an IDF spokesman also <a href=\"https://x.com/AvichayAdraee/status/1907652744699056383\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://x.com/AvichayAdraee/status/1907652744699056383\">said</a> Israeli forces “eliminate[d]” several “terrorists” whom he said had opened fire on Israeli forces<b> </b>in Syria’s south,<b> </b>Daraa governorate officials <a href=\"https://t.me/DaraaGov1/2692\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://t.me/DaraaGov1/2692\">said</a> at least<b> </b>nine civilians were killed<b> </b>during the deepest Israeli incursion yet, sparking “widespread public mobilisation and anger”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SYJE4NEUPVCMJG6B2TLQD4S55U","additional_properties":{},"content":"* * *","type":"text"},{"_id":"YVPSXVC35JD4JK2EPBIPJIJQ7M","additional_properties":{},"content":"In a temporary home his family had moved to for<b> </b>safety, Naif Al Ali (68)<b> </b>held up a photograph of a bloody stump: what remained of a 40-year-old relative’s leg after the Koya attacks.<b> </b>Another injured victim, his daughter Malak Al Ali (27), lay nearby.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D6CVR7GG6JA4HHUHA3UWYMUW7I","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"BZVL6ETLQJFA3EDZRXK7TSLYN4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“This is their policy, they are expansionists,” he said of the Israelis. “Here the land is fertile, there is water, agriculture, sources of electricity, so they want to occupy it. The new government will not do anything, they don’t have power.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"R5RKWSIVZBDMXO2H3IFLIL63QQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ali and other Syrians who spoke to The Irish Times said they want the United Nations to step in and protect them. More than 1,100 UN peacekeepers are already deployed in the nearby Golan Heights, the UN’s <a href=\"https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/01/1159451#:~:text=Why%20UN%20peacekeepers%20patrol%20the%20Israel%2DSyria%20border,-By%20Eileen%20Travers&text=More%20than%201%2C100%20UN%20peacekeepers,the%20history%20of%20the%20region.\" rel=\"\">website</a> says: the UN Disengagement Observer Force was established in 1974. Two thirds of the Golan Heights was in effect annexed by Israel in 1981, though most of the world still considers it Syrian territory.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3ANZPRTZ2JBQTITHKFFCKNA4C4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We will never leave our land, [even if] Israel or the US or anyone comes, we will not leave,” said Ali.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RBSTSNOJWNDOBC7GSS3GNLDFVM","additional_properties":{},"content":"“[Israel] say, always, they have to protect their borders. They should protect their borders from their country, not come to our country to protect their borders,” complained Bashar, Wissam’s brother who – like some others – asked to go only by his first name due to anxiety over the consequences of speaking out.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BL6DNI6AMRCMFI7LKWCAYZAPSU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I want to convey a message,” he said. “Here we are in our land. We didn’t go to them. We are not assaulting them. They are coming to us. They are assaulting us.” Referring to the fall of the Assad regime, he added: “The Israelis sabotaged even the one moment of joy we have felt.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2F5KWMPB6RHODIN6UXSKN7PSY4","additional_properties":{},"content":"* * *","type":"text"},{"_id":"4OLQWYVJBNEL7ATLPE4O4IFXAM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Speaking to people in southern Syria, it becomes clear there is suspicion and conflicting information about which Syrians might be helping Israel, or accepting cash or other benefits. Israeli advances come at a time of desperation, when locals are worried about drought and daily grinding hardships. “They have suffered from war for 14 years, they are ready to do a deal with the devil to improve their financial situation,” said one man.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C2QFJPNYJ5BUHLNMJ4E6XZ726I","additional_properties":{},"content":"Israeli food parcels have been distributed to roughly a dozen villages, he said, containing goods including flour, milk, canned food, biscuits, rice, sugar and vitamins, worth in total about $140 (€127). While many do not want to be publicly seen accepting them, they will take the parcels under cover of darkness. The packaging has Hebrew language labels, while the packages are marked with Arabic writing translating as “the good neighbour”, the man said. An Israeli spokesperson confirmed they offered both “medical assistance” and “humanitarian food packages”. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"RGVIKHOIRNA3BOZ357MUFFMWEI","additional_properties":{},"content":"In a bunker with a woman battlefield commander in Syria: ‘To be under the control of a patriarchal husband? I prefer to be here’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"VAO3XMCS5BEF5NC5FSNJ4O6HG4","additional_properties":{},"content":"In Al-Nasiriya, on the administrative border between the governorates of Daraa and Quneitra, The Irish Times saw what reportedly used to be a Russian military base, said to have been destroyed by Israeli soldiers within the previous week. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"ICH5TV5CEBAWROQN76ZUHT4SJQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"HIPFVDFPMNBVZPLEPYSDIMBX4E","additional_properties":{},"content":"Barbed wire still surrounded cracked concrete and an upturned vehicle. An IDF spokesperson denied that troops are present in Al-Nasiriya and Daraa at all. But in Ain Dakar, Daraa, there was another checkpoint, which locals said Israeli forces had destroyed days before. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"NHW6XTLIFVBN3CIE26LIVGPEVA","additional_properties":{},"content":"* * *","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z7YI6SA5TJG4NBA37VV7WSP334","additional_properties":{},"content":"In Kodana, a quiet village in the southwestern Quneitra governorate, an unmanned checkpoint blocks a road. Locals, who did not want to be named, said Israelis had mounted cameras on it, and anyone who approached risks being tracked down. They said a shepherd had had his motorbike confiscated for passing by, with one adding they were nervous because “we are not allowed to talk to media”. Five people were recently detained from one house, they said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O5IH2HA3TNDLPOWF4OQYURR2GY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We got rid of [Bashar al-] Assad and we got much worse than Assad. The same day that Assad fell, at 5pm they were here,” said one man.","type":"text"},{"_id":"46UBBDXQEJG2TBSROIUAXJLH5U","additional_properties":{},"content":"He also accused the Israelis of seizing sheep, and barring people from their land, forcing him to sell cattle he can no longer graze. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"EISJOSL2AZAJXEU3YILD4PSV7M","additional_properties":{},"content":"He said Israeli soldiers once shot guns recklessly from another checkpoint further away, with a bullet damaging a car. They also shot machine guns into a nearby dam, he alleged.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2EERAK6BVJCHFNS2PV43V5AK2I","additional_properties":{},"content":"Civilians in Syria: ‘We try to make a new future now. You can speak, you can go out’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"T5DLZYD5OFBUVNGRQCJP7YDVSM","additional_properties":{},"content":"An Israeli military spokesperson said Israeli forces detained “suspects” from Syria, “based on intelligence indications” and “those found not to be involved in terrorist activities are released”. IDF representatives were in “direct contact with civilians” and did not prevent agricultural work in areas that were “critical” for them, but operated “in these areas in accordance with operational needs”. The spokesperson also said claims troops fired indiscriminately from checkpoints at civilians were false.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WRBRDWB65JA2BLWDWLOD6GZS2M","additional_properties":{},"content":"Two Kodana residents described dozens of Israelis coming to their village earlier that morning for a “meeting”, during which they saw them pointing in various directions. “We are puzzled by what they are doing ... You can’t ask them why they’re doing it. You can’t talk to them,” one said. “Maybe they will ask people to leave ... If they ask us to leave we have to leave, we cannot resist them.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"LUZAHUDUUNAAFKNPSETN5HLFXM","additional_properties":{},"content":"He said he stayed at home after sunset now. “Any house they want to enter, any hour, they storm the houses,“ the man continued, trying to explain the anxiety residents now lived with. “No one orders us to stay in at night, but we are afraid and they are afraid. If you go out and they have a patrol in the street they might shoot you.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"YSQM7JB5GJEWNNBYLL5AYVI35I","additional_properties":{},"content":"<i>Hani Alagbar assisted with this reporting.</i>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Sally Hayden"}},"name":"Sally Hayden"}]},"description":{"basic":"Days after the fall of the Assad regime, Israeli forces entered southern Syria, where many locals now want protection from the UN"},"display_date":"2025-04-06T07:28:52.332Z","headlines":{"basic":"‘They destroyed this moment of joy’: On the frontlines of the Israeli incursion into Syria","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"WQXVIENDFBBYXGR6KC524Y7CFA","auth":{"1":"79720579084f6052d56b7764ad6dca8944cdcc9155a7db41c08be46e4986420c"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/WQXVIENDFBBYXGR6KC524Y7CFA.jpg"}},"subtype":"feature","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Middle East"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/middle-east/2025/04/06/they-destroyed-this-moment-of-joy-on-the-frontlines-of-the-israeli-incursion-into-syria/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/middle-east","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Middle East"}}}},{"_id":"EEIIVI7IDRAUNDLSVIPUN4Y5UE","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":433,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/537bd796-468b-4bb6-9ac2-27ba2e09dad2/versions/1743922095/media/b54b50f6516878bdda516e2099a65d74_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/world/us/2025/04/06/it-makes-me-sick-mass-anti-trump-protests-in-us-cities-see-americans-express-their-fear-and-loathing/","content_elements":[{"_id":"GOP2LDHJB5FY3LXXOT2GHTMWGQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"To those of us crammed in the Red Line carriage at Metro Centre, the passing figure was like an apparition. She walked, head bowed and face obscured, in the ankle-length loose red dress and white bonnet made famous by the television series of Margaret Atwood’s novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"MQ7C3MOAFNDZFJHMM3NLIEE5WI","additional_properties":{},"content":"A thicket of people carrying signs and slogans, all bound for the National Mall for the lunchtime protests, parted as she made her way through the crowd along the platform. Then the doors closed and the train shuddered into life. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"NZLHVAKBC5FJ5IT5WML2KF5WDY","additional_properties":{},"content":"DC police were planning for around 20,000 people to gather at the National Mall and for a separate Pro-Palestine protest close to the Capitol. The estimated number ranged from 60,000 to 100,000. The hilly verge around the National Monument had the expectant air of a mass concert festival in that lull time between acts. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"AEA6MLUWORCOVMYVDXMZS5TDYA","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"N7YPFFNAHFC4TLUFSGH6DJZLM4","additional_properties":{},"content":"There were speakers, led by Maryland congressman Jamie Raskin. But it was clear that people made the effort to be there simply to gather and form part of the swell of human opposition. It was the same in Chicago, Boston and New York, where the crowd on Fifth Avenue reportedly stretched for 20 blocks.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GAS4XHEZK5E2DAT737D4R4XZ7I","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Disgust. I don’t know what else to say” said Cathy O’Donnell when asked what had compelled her to fly in from Ohio for the event. She was there with her sister Alison and their friend Jenny.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XOMDOHGCBRESJG326TBKW4UNSI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I’m gonna be seventy soon,” O’Donnell explained.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GJJBICC5UBG2THFWBBPJQOTJDU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The only thing I want for my birthday is for him to be gone. This is not ok. My father fought in World War II against the fascists. All of what they are doing – destroying the government, taking things from people, it makes me sick. I can’t sleep at night. It’s just terrible. I have been protesting in Columbus and I thought, well, the place I want to be today is in DC.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"K6J6KEYIEJGNDNZBZDYGICSR34","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"2YQHBVJXOFCUXOLWSN3O5M3XVE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The trio are long-time friends. As we talk, fears for the future of US education – “They are banning books, telling teachers what to teach,” said Alison – the integrity of elections and the right to simply participate in future protests emerge as their chief concerns.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4CQWYKFGJJF7RDMIKQZA4TEHVI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I used to think it was hyperbole,” her sister said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V2K4PX37NFHIVPVQ7Q2QH67724","additional_properties":{},"content":"“But I can’t imagine that I am living in a story from the history books. I am actually afraid whether or not we will still be voting in 2026. And America is not just the United States. There is talk about stuff like this, about them bringing in anti-protesters to invoke violence so that they can use the insurrection act.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4743XMAGTZCNDN7SI7HCXNIMQI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Some people think that will be soon; by the end of April,” agreed Jenny.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AHN7HIS4DNCZVGA7QUIR7YOFMI","additional_properties":{},"content":"From the vantage point of the National Monument, the Mall was a river of people and placards running as far as the Capitol Building. The slogans were funny, profane, despairing, defiant, and the vast majority were devoted to protests against perceived attacks on the constitution, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk/\">Elon Musk</a>‘s shadowy role, the ineffectiveness of Congress and innumerable signs and sketches portraying president Trump in Nazi Germany regalia. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"PZIULXGY3VEV7AQJXNVLWL4ILU","additional_properties":{},"content":"The absence of any reference to the ongoing global alarm over Trump’s newly unveiled tariff policy was striking. It was as though, for this crowd, the prospect of higher prices and plummeting pension plans was the least of it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LVVNT5MHMJGZHDCE4DNCERSP2A","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Smiths flew in from Montana to be in Washington. They were there specifically to give voice to what they see as the appalling treatment by the Trump administration of Canada.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VG2I53W5KVGJBJSYNTI36XOVXI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We love Canada,” was Byron Smith’s simple explanation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I2YXEAL4OFFNPA3OOBT54Y2Q3Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We have had nothing but goodwill from them and to them. It’s just ridiculous and insulting and horrible that we are treating them that way.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"HJXJEGSFTBG6VNUMSFUBOB5CVE","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"E656I3OKO5FX5IZS3UCZ46FPFE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We get all our good booze from Canada!” chips in Kelly Smith. “Which comes from Europe. Which is way better than America’s. Sorry America!”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5CRFDILI5VCVDBZVVBLJ3OUE4E","additional_properties":{},"content":"We chat about life in Montana – the global popularity of the modern western show Yellowstone; the mind-blowing landscape, the brutal winters. The Smiths have been living in a cabin built by Byron’s father half a century ago. The lifestyle there is sublime, remote, tough and intensely local. Montana is, in presidential elections, a tick-box Republican state now. Since 1948, it has returned only Lyndon Johnson and Bill Clinton as Democrats in elections for the White House.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OOZFACKJHJF3DLS56SVWZCT2R4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“My grandfather was a miner in Butte, Montana,” Byron said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5MUHRBKXOZHXHBA73WZPANAU5I","additional_properties":{},"content":"“They were abused and that’s when the state was solidly Democratic. And I am not against outsiders at all but when people come in with a lot of money, such as our new senator...”","type":"text"},{"_id":"WM5FQ2XSSZESPNBDWPWVQ36L64","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Because people come with a lot of money and just buy it,” Kelly said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SRBIRXODPJB4FE5OTMLB7J27RI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“People are out there driving their tractors and they are listening to these shows – it is not like BBC; it’s just some station they can get out on the field ... and they get brainwashed.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"QT74V2M5QNF2PJPUWIS37CLHBU","additional_properties":{},"content":"About a 15-minute walk away, Laura Loomer, the prominent far-right Trump loyalist and podcaster whose meeting with the president led to the immediate firing of six National Security Council members on Friday, spent her afternoon posting videos of details of the bus companies “used today to bus Muslim and radicals leftist protesters into Washington”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CCDUJNREVJFI7NYVALPHFB3ENE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The president himself, meantime, was at his golf course enjoying an elite tournament in Doral, Florida, seemingly unmoved by the smoke billowing from the stock exchange mechanisms whose buoyant health he traditionally regarded as a symbol of popularity. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"I5CPBFFKTBGF7HD52FSVARTHOE","additional_properties":{},"content":"There will be little trace of the crowds and slogans when he returns from his weekend. But after what has been a chastening week for the Republican administration – <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/04/02/wisconsin-election-gives-democrats-glimmer-of-hope-as-trump-tariff-decision-looms/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/04/02/wisconsin-election-gives-democrats-glimmer-of-hope-as-trump-tariff-decision-looms/\">a comprehensive defeat</a> in the high-profile Wisconsin supreme court election followed by the unnervingly severe stock market response to the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/04/03/donald-trump-us-tariffs-liberation-day/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/04/03/donald-trump-us-tariffs-liberation-day/\">roll-out of the tariff-inspired ‘Liberation Day’</a> – the president cannot be unaware of Saturday’s demonstrations. 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Behind them, a great organ thundered from the loft, as one of the cathedral’s 10 choirs led the congregation in an introductory hymn.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RLJBF45CQRBS3H3JOPREKIHDGQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776514},"content":"This was high Mass at <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/china\" target=\"_blank\">Beijing</a>’s North Cathedral, a late 19th-century church near the city’s financial district built in the French Gothic style in the shape of a cross with an elaborate grey marble facade. There are holy water stoups inside each entrance, stations of the cross on the pillars lining the nave, votive statues in alcoves and side altars, and confessionals and a baptismal font at the back of the church.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YHQPSRSZPRDURHZ5MAAMSLJADI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776515},"content":"The church sits in a large compound and the courtyard outside features two gold-roofed pavilions and other Chinese architectural features including 60 carved lions. The stained glass windows show scenes from the history of the Catholic Church in China and one of the most popular shrines inside features a Chinese Madonna and child.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QDPB5WDE5ZHABLDMFVPIPFP6N4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776516},"content":"“It’s a combination of the West and the East, the Catholic Church and the Chinese culture,” said Fr Simon Zhu, who has been a priest at the cathedral since 2014.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VQW5RYBFE5AQTENGUFTNLUBT6A","additional_properties":{"_id":"FHKX4ZZE5JGDPMRYT43XC5QMZI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"KKMNUALFQNAIHKKSCDDM3DRST4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776517},"content":"“We feel very blessed to have such a design. Even 100 years ago, the missionaries already started inculturation or Sinicization, the combination of Catholic culture and Chinese culture, Catholic thinking, plus Chinese thinking, and combining the two together.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"IFW773WL4VEYBFWORQBFNZVWWY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776518},"content":"The principle of inculturation, adapting Christian teachings to local cultures, has a long tradition in the Catholic Church and the Jesuit Matteo Ricci blended Catholic faith with Chinese thinking in the 17th century. But the word Sinicization also refers to Xi Jinping’s policy that “religions in China must be Chinese in orientation”, incorporated into socialist society and independent of foreign influence.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZBWI7MQK7BGA5BDMKZDWLON54E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776519},"content":"The archbishop of Beijing, Joseph Li Shan, is also the president of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association (CCPA), the representative body for Catholics officially recognised by the Chinese Communist Party. Most of China’s roughly 10 million Catholics attend officially sanctioned churches such as the North Cathedral but a substantial minority belong to the so-called “underground church”, attending masses in unapproved venues and private homes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7MWOKIZ56FA3NKWLTASYJCFGBI","additional_properties":{"_id":"ING5LMUJPBFPVH7LPKWELZNB5I"},"content":"‘The feeling burned inside him still’: Love, death and superstition across the boundaries","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"7FAOHQ73UZGZRGJCGRYOASKXXU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776520},"content":"Under <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/pope-francis/\" target=\"_blank\">Pope Francis</a>, the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/vatican\" target=\"_blank\">Vatican</a> entered into an agreement with China in 2018 aimed at ending the division between the two Catholic communities by regularising the appointment of bishops. But the agreement, which was renewed last October for four years, has drawn criticism from some Catholics who fear it cedes too much influence to the Communist Party.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X4UTIPQQSFCVBKSO4ZNBPLDHSI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776521},"content":"The liturgy at high Mass at the cathedral was indistinguishable from that in any Catholic church in Europe and the archbishop’s sermon focused on the importance of faith and repentance. His only reference to any political issue was at the start of Mass when he said he hoped that China and the Vatican would soon establish diplomatic relations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IHXDZXNUB5GS5EUBTDRQTDUC3U","additional_properties":{"_id":"HNJ3YU25LJBQBL3237J3P3HT4M"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"OMBCD756VFHNLLW3FO5LTDW5Z4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776522},"content":"The cathedral parish has five priests and one deacon, and in a convent behind the church live 50 nuns from the Congregation of St Joseph, a French order that has been in Beijing for more than 150 years. Although the Beijing diocese is more than 700 years old, created by an Italian Franciscan missionary in 1307, Fr Zhu describes the Catholic Church in China as a developing church.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3GZUAGZAQRHWTO4LJQWRNY57IQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776523},"content":"“We would challenge our ministers, our church servers to watch how the developed church does things. Of course, number one, the standard for the Catholic Church, that’s Rome. So do whatever Rome does,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NER42GTGC5HWZJC7NRFPYSAKJM","additional_properties":{"_id":"AUULPXALFBDSBGOLAID3ZIRQM4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"WHWICDI5D5ABHEJNYWPJ4UVW5A","additional_properties":{"_id":"3LCQBJZ5TNETZH2NTFLHIOZBUE"},"content":"Vision of Pope Francis has signalled shift in how Vatican views women in leadership","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"MF4NAH65YRGM3FE3F43G4EG25M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776524},"content":"A small Chinese flag on Fr Zhu’s desk was the only symbol of the state I saw at the North Cathedral and his conversation was peppered with references to the pope and his guidance to parishes. The cathedral has three groups undergoing the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults the official Catholic process for joining the Church.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FPYJKY4UTNEJFP67N3IQKSPENQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776525},"content":"“Anybody can come here and say, I would like to learn more about becoming a Catholic and we just assist. To be a Catholic or to be a Christian in this country is also God’s calling. We just try to assist to make the seed of faith, the seed of belief, grow toward maturity,” Fr Zhu said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UKQPBXY64VC7JB4AZUPG62I55Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776526},"content":"The Chinese Communist Party is officially atheist, forbidding its 99 million members from practising religion and the early years of the People’s Republic of China saw the exile of foreign missionaries and the arrest of priests and bishops. After the foundation of the CCPA in 1957, Pope Pius XXII said anyone who took part in the consecration of bishops without the Vatican’s approval would be excommunicated.","type":"text"},{"_id":"47YND2JOTVCL3DQZKMLTKQLKV4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776528},"content":"Chinese Catholics who remained loyal to Rome formed the underground church but after 1966 the Cultural Revolution saw the systematic suppression and destruction of all religion.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7V4RTIJZOBG3PEPWTPKIJMZNKE","additional_properties":{"_id":"3SXDTL2NMZAT3LU4PUZU6YDTII"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"GIOWHPNAM5D2LOCSLS6UFPEEEA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776529},"content":"Deng Xiaoping’s liberalisation brought a lighter touch to the regulation of religion and from 1981 Catholics were no longer obliged to pledge independence from the Pope and the Holy See. Restrictions tightened again in 1994 when all places of worship had to be registered with the government, opening the way for the arrest and prosecution of priests and bishops in the underground church for violating the regulation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7NCDJ4RNZBBERL7NVP7GZIKIT4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776530},"content":"Meanwhile, bishops consecrated in the patriotic church without papal approval were not recognised by the Holy See while bishops in the underground church were seen by the Chinese authorities as illegitimate. The 2018 Provisional Agreement on the Appointment of Bishops, the text of which has never been published, was designed to regularise the status of bishops with an agreed system for approving them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IZ3KTMGGBFGFDHEKBHXQ7WYSDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776531},"content":"This meant that bishops would be nominated by the Chinese authorities but the Vatican would have a veto over their appointment. Pope Francis immediately readmitted to “full, ecclesial communion” eight bishops from the patriotic church who had been appointed without Vatican approval and some bishops from the underground church were recognised by the Chinese authorities.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NZASRTKEERCU5NPCYDCEBRXJQA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776532},"content":"Ten bishops have been appointed under the new system since 2018 and the Vatican has yet to object formally to anyone nominated by the Chinese authorities. After the agreement’s renewal last year, the Pope said “the results are positive, and we are working with goodwill”, adding that he was pleased with the Vatican’s dialogue with China.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G4RHXTAXTBBKZOURRLQ64PB43A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776533},"content":"Sergio Ticozzi is a Hong Kong-based Italian priest and an expert on the church in China whose books include China and the Catholic Church: Through Mutual Eyes. He believes the agreement is a very positive and effective channel for communication and dialogue, if both parties have a clear mutual understanding of what they are talking about but that China and the Vatican have different understandings of the terms at the heart of the agreement: bishops and appointment.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2IPJ52J2FNAN7HC7MJ52HISSVE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776535},"content":"“For the Chinese authorities bishops are considered just public state officials, to be ‘democratically’ elected, while for the Vatican, they should be religious heads of a diocese or local church with a ‘sacred’ or divine authority. Consequently, the choice of the episcopal candidates by Chinese authorities is based mainly upon being a politically reliable person and obedient to the government/party, while for the Vatican they should have moral, doctrinal and pastoral qualifications,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7RLHHOOKBVHMPGEAHZD22BXUXY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776536},"content":"“As far as the ‘appointment’ is concerned, the Vatican understands it as the handing down to the candidate of God’s authority upon a diocese, but for the Chinese side it simply means Vatican’s ‘agreement or approval’ of the elected candidate.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KFAGOKSNNRARFFTAWP2NZMQVKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776537},"content":"Both the official church of the majority of Chinese Catholics and the underground church are in full communion with Rome and the agreement’s supporters hope that it will help to bring the two communities together. The Holy See has told priests in the underground church that they should not be forced to register with the Chinese authorities but Fr Ticozzi says that they are under great pressure to do so.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6NSIP7X2JNATZIGLJZJRFHLYPA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776538},"content":"“The Chinese authorities want clearly to eliminate this section of the church, and exploit the ambiguous and silent attitude of the Vatican to achieve their objective. They openly make use of the Sino-Vatican agreement for this purpose: they do not show great concern about providing bishops for the more than 30 vacant dioceses, but prefer to propose their own episcopal candidate for dioceses which already have unofficial bishops, in order to force the Vatican to order the latter to accept the government solution, which can be rather unjust,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R5VDYUP65FEZLJMVAD2BDJW2EA","additional_properties":{"_id":"HRUGBYNRA5FSLP55L42NUGQENY"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"LFUOAULYJBEA5ASIKF6GQV6KPE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776539},"content":"The Vatican is one of only a handful of states in the world that have diplomatic relations with Taiwan rather than with the People’s Republic of China and Beijing would like to change that. Some in the Vatican see the establishment of diplomatic relations with Beijing as a desirable next step in the process of normalisation of which the 2018 agreement was a part.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5ES47U7K7FCGNM6V3V2GN6T6GY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776540},"content":"Fr Ticozzi is pessimistic about the future of the church in China, noting a dimming of religious fervour among younger generations and a lack of spiritual guidance from above.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6NO6W6DYNNEXPJIE4QWT5E2TXU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776541},"content":"“The official emphasis will be on formal appearances, on external show of ceremonies, on the political interpretation and role of the clergy, since bishops and communities are required first to obey the government’s orders,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FWHCXT54IVEKHKABILFW6GQFGY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776542},"content":"“The official reports speak about various religious celebrations, construction of new churches, ordination of new priests and religious profession of new nuns, spiritual retreats and pilgrimages, religious symposia and study meetings. Several priests and sisters are truly very committed. But, the number of baptisms of adults is not high, bishops are kept busy by the authorities in political meetings, tours and banquets, lay people often are left by themselves without a solid catechesis and spiritual formation.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"RWNNTBCTFFBTJIYBSDJCGEN4M4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776543},"content":"Cindy Yik-Yi Chu, a historian at Hong Kong Baptist University and the author of a number of books on the Catholic Church in modern China, is more upbeat. She believes the fact that there are no longer any illicit bishops in the Chinese church is a big step forward that will enable more dialogue.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H2QHFX45PFGERHUH4BDQFWGWEU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776544},"content":"“It’s very slow. But I think the Pope wants it very much and wants to have dialogue. Even before he became pope he wanted to have dialogue with the Chinese church,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PKHNGJHJAVDCRJQWUJ7VHLADWI","additional_properties":{"_id":"QZKAIPCSE5DEZGSEHVADSTIHKQ"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"TVBQ4IXIHBEGNJ3P2Z3VWPQ5P4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776545},"content":"“I think that he was interested in working with the Chinese people because it’s a large population and there had be so many conflicts along the way. I think that’s the reason. It’s not something diplomatic or something like that. I think it’s just out of sincerity.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"XRDLR4LAFNEVRKJJZS7KRKIXFI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776546},"content":"Prof Chu acknowledges the sense of being abandoned felt by some in the underground church but argues that, since the pope still accepts them as Catholics, they have not been forgotten. And she rejects the argument that the church should not engage with the Communist Party.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UWYNIP4M7BAATAIIXIMATPEJ3M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776547},"content":"“Should we just continue to hate them? That doesn’t do any good for the people,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z7E2G55YINARBDV3XKEWYLOGNU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776548},"content":"Back in the North Cathedral, Fr Zhu was feeling optimistic too, noting that the convent has six new novices this year and that vocations for the priesthood are increasing steadily. When he returned from the Philippines in 2014, he was one of only a handful of priests in the diocese but now there are 91 and he says the change is visible.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2LLFURYD4ZBUPJP4KCHPJYXK2M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776549},"content":"“Every year, we get around two priests in the diocese of Beijing. An increase of two priests per year, that’s pretty good,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JBOXH7CFLZDDDE5PDD43VPN36U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743753776550},"content":"“I think there are some good signs. 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I’ll use their call signs, because the names of enlisted men are not supposed to appear in newspapers. Frosty, Hrynia and Yakut are my brothers-in-arms from another platoon. Their harrowing escape under fire from beneath a collapsed building on the front line was the most important thing that happened to my company in March.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XYP5ONRWHNAUBECMAATPCVDOAU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980425},"content":"Frosty’s cold demeanour earned him his nom de guerre. Hrynia is a diminutive of George, and Yakut is named after Yakutia, far-eastern Russia, because his eyes are slightly slanted like those of the Mongols who once ruled over <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/ukraine-war/\" target=\"_self\">Ukraine</a> and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/russia/\" target=\"_self\">Russia</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MVZ5R5G5YRBQ7G5SGJMDEXEUEM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980426},"content":"Their infantry squad were sheltering in the basement of a house in the ruined frontline village where my friend Denys was killed in early February. Another soldier was killed when the vehicle sent to retrieve Denys’s body was ambushed. The Russians bombed the house, and it collapsed on top of them. The last time I wrote, we were talking to them over walkie-talkies. Skilful drone pilots dropped food and water to them through a small hole at night. The hole was at most 30cm wide, not big enough for a soldier wearing a helmet and flak jacket to climb through.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3M5ZO6D3RBDBJGDOEVJDLEJ6AQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980427},"content":"Communications were sporadic, so we planned their escape in advance. Half the crossroads village is held by the Russians. Ukrainian infantry hold the other half. The Russians are trying to break through, so they can attack Slovyansk, a few dozen kilometres away. There is only one civilian left, an old man who moves between two or three houses, like the characters in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/writer-andrey-kurkov-tells-ukraine-s-story-it-s-my-duty-this-is-my-front-line-1.4822617\" target=\"_self\">Andrey Kurkov’s Donetsk novel, Grey Bees</a>. I can’t tell how old he is, because he is wrapped up against the cold, but I know he works for the Russians because I watch him on the drone feed, taking food to enemy soldiers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MVQGJ5XDAFDWJODLGLV5LKAIKE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980428},"content":"We managed to drop small, folding infantry shovels through the hole leading into the basement. Our men survived underground for a month, until mid-March, in terrible conditions. It reminded me of miners who spent months underground in Chile when I was a teenager, except that the soldiers were under near constant artillery and aerial bombardment. It was impossible for us to rescue them, so they had to dig themselves out.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ICNPFHDLYFC55FV4SKSHFMV3R4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980429},"content":"There are more than 100 people in our company, and all of us felt very nervous. We hide our emotions, but you were always in a state, like there’s a rock inside you. You don’t sleep well. You keep looking at your messages. The suspense was exhausting.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G572D6IORNBOLKOQM2XJMKRKSY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980430},"type":"image"},{"_id":"EF45BL4HLJD3TOBHBGU2K2ESG4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980431},"content":"They climbed out in mid-March, just before midnight. We had stopped communicating because we didn’t want to alert the Russians. But Russian night vision drones saw them and dropped gas cannisters. We know now that they killed Denys with Novichok, the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/chemical-weapons-body-confirms-uk-findings-on-skripals-attack-1.3458706\" target=\"_self\">nerve agent that was used against the Skripals in the UK in 2018</a>, and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/nerve-agent-used-to-poison-navalny-found-in-siberia-hotel-room-tests-show-1.4357520\" target=\"_self\">against Alexei Navalny in 2020</a>. It was Novichok they dropped on our infantry squad as they fled. If they hadn’t been in the open and wearing chemical masks, it would have killed them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OWWEDCZWXRCRJP7WGFJXY66KSU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980432},"content":"They had to walk five kilometres on mined roads to the pre-arranged evacuation point. When they finally called to say they were out, the sense of relief was enormous. It wasn’t like the movies, with everyone hugging and crying, because we were each in our separate positions, watching the whole situation, and we continued working. Someone dispatched a car filled with medics, and we had to make sure it wasn’t attacked. I was watching the Russian lines in case they tried to take advantage of the rescue to break out. Concentrated as I was on my work, I felt overjoyed that none of my comrades were killed and no one lost arms or legs, which is always the danger with minefields.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KR5G66C4CVHSRPKZYQZQHGYFQE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980433},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"LU6G2IC4HBDTJC4657RVUYRUVM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980434},"content":"When the car finally reached the infantry soldiers, they were in terrible shape, shell-shocked and suffering from chemical poisoning. They were taken straight to the military hospital in Dnipro, so we haven’t seen them yet. Dnipro is far behind the front line but nowhere is safe. Just last night, the Russians killed four people in Dnipro with attack drones. Frosty, Hrynia, Yakut and their comrades are undergoing treatment and rehabilitation. They’ll be given time off with their families. I only hope they won’t suffer permanent damage from the nerve gas.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZMNWQM2H45FZJJPBH364VHQWXA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980435},"content":"‘Denys was skinny and muscular, with fair hair and blue-grey eyes. He was killed near Donetsk in February’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"QD5DMAMATRBTPNQHLK7GORYTNA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980436},"content":"I write from my mother Tamara’s apartment in the suburbs of Kyiv. When I arrived home, I could tell she was on the verge of crying. She hadn’t seen me since last August, but she didn’t cry because she knows I hate that. I’ll let her cry when I take the train back to Donetsk.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3KXLMLTF3JCADORRWSHZ2NGVHY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980437},"content":"I’d asked Tamara to book me an appointment with the hairdresser on my first day home. I had my blue hair dyed back to my natural dark brown. That night, I went to the theatre to see Medealand, a play based on Euripides’s tragedy, about the way women are underestimated everywhere in the world.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VXPQGAPVVNAPPHX77E34VKYGOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980438},"type":"image"},{"_id":"FUG2JZCO2ZHKPKK6TGVBUPH24U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980439},"content":"The director of the play is my friend Katya, who was a student activist with me in the early 2010s. When we demonstrated on the Maidan in the winter of 2013/2014, Katya was the head of our woman squad and her husband, Mykhailo, was the commander of the 16th regiment of the Euromaidan self-defence force. To think we wore cyclists’ helmets and carried plywood shields then! The Russians are far more lethal than <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/ukraine-s-fugitive-ex-president-viktor-yanukovich-convicted-of-treason-1.3769670\" target=\"_self\">Victor Yanukovych</a>’s riot police. Remembering events of 11 years ago, I measure the immense distance we have travelled.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IADZZYYKPBGPTPEEUXNE24DA5U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980440},"content":"The following evening, I attended the presentation of a book about Ukrainian authors describing their writing techniques. The male moderator and the woman author were in my class at Kyiv-Mohyla, Ukraine’s most prestigious university. It made me dream about the books I’d like to write, if the war ever ends.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JYUFPEDMSVB6RGUDMGRXDV6I3I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980441},"content":"On the third day, I met with a production team who invited me to work as an unpaid consultant on a television series about the army.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R2YW2UTDHZDYLPXAEQHQUA65DA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980442},"type":"image"},{"_id":"L4X2VHAAR5CAFPOSMCACUO34X4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980443},"content":"Hairdressers, theatre, bookshops, television ... On the front line, you could forget such things exist. I tried to pack as much normal life as I could into my five days’ leave.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VCVI4ZVPIFBLHFVA6FAHKLFYLQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980444},"content":"Back in Donetsk, I just purchased our first four fibre-optic drones for my platoon, the Hellish Hornets, thanks to a generous donor in Paris who sent us €3,500. They’re manufactured in Ukraine and are connected to the drone pilot by a very thin fibre-optic thread which transmits the image. This means the Russians cannot jam them, because there is no electromagnetic signal. I used to give our drones names, but I don’t do it with those destined for kamikaze missions, because there’s no point getting attached to them! Fibre-optic drones have only been around a few months. The Russians got them first and they have more than we do.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UMLKT6DGQZCUZGAZHYULESJ5NU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980445},"content":"After more than a month of “peace negotiations”, I can’t say we are any closer to peace than before. There were some truly scandalous moments in the Oval Office at the end of February. I of course support <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/volodymyr-zelenskiy/\" target=\"_self\">Zelenskiy</a>, but I couldn’t help thinking Ukraine would face the consequences and it would not be pleasant.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PQJ4XGFQ6JERNKTXTK7SXIAKMU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980446},"content":"Funnily enough, the thing that irritated me most was the snide way Trump and the Maga journalist Brian Green <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/02/28/trump-accuses-zelenskiy-of-lacking-gratitude-and-gambling-with-world-war-three/\" target=\"_self\">mocked Zelenskiy</a> for not wearing a suit. The US always presents itself as open-minded and tolerant, as a country that doesn’t judge on appearance. It seemed hypocritical and petty.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TFCSCXLATRFRFBNW6MPASCJ5CQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980447},"content":"I saw the interview where Steve Witkoff, Trump’s negotiator, says that eastern Ukraine should be given to Russia because its inhabitants speak Russian. An American in Texas posted a video saying 70 per cent of his town speak Spanish, so why don’t we give it to Mexico?","type":"text"},{"_id":"MZ65TYALJRFB7DGPIB4YYY2HSE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980448},"content":"Apparently, the Americans have rewritten the minerals agreement that Zelenskiy had agreed to sign in February, and the new version is even more predatory. It seems like we are being used because we are at a disadvantage.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LX7SV4QNZFELXL6BBXRPIJPMLM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980449},"content":"I don’t think the war will end, but it will stop for a while. After every announcement about a ceasefire, Putin steps up the shelling and bombing. It’s his way of saying he doesn’t want to end the war. He keeps piling on new conditions. I think Putin is testing Trump, to see how far he can go and how many advantages he can get.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J5SYBSI6F5BBNLV7KKCTHT6UUI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980450},"content":"Kremlin says it’s working on Ukraine peace after Trump says he is angry with Putin","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"ATD4UGIE4FDX7O7QO3D2KG2KEA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980451},"content":"On March 30th, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/30/trump-pd-off-at-putin-threatens-tariffs-on-russian-oil-if-moscow-blocks-ukraine-deal/\" target=\"_self\">Trump said he was “getting very angry” with Putin</a> and threatened to impose tariffs on countries who buy Russian oil, like China and India.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P6LTHZ44VVDNZOR76BDZDHRXDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980452},"content":"Within hours, Trump threatened Zelenskiy with “big, big problems” if he doesn’t sign the minerals deal. He talked about his “good relationship” with Putin, saying, “the anger dissipates quickly if he does the right thing”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5RBQMJM2IFCX5OWNISXFOMUPLM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980453},"content":"I tell myself that the Trump administration will not last forever. Trump cannot destroy everything the US has built up over centuries. I remain optimistic. There are still a lot of scenarios possible.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7VRLACRZKNBTRPGMCC6XYILJCI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743779980454},"content":"<i>How Good It Is I Have No Fear of Dying: Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko’s Fight for Ukraine by Lara Marlowe is published by Head of Zeus.</i>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Lt Yulia Mykytenko and Lara Marlowe"}]},"description":{"basic":"Women are underestimated everywhere in the world. 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In particular, the US wants South Africa to withdraw its case against Israel at The Hague-based International Court of Justice, where it has accused the country of committing acts of genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J5RQDL6FUNEYNLLZQYDQ42PLMI","additional_properties":{},"content":"However, the US president and his Republican Party have added new grievances against South Africa, recently accusing its government of human rights violations against Afrikaners, a white minority group.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QVJTOJUNPBCMVJDUMPQMRKXIKE","additional_properties":{},"content":"According to Trump and his officials, South Africa’s adoption of a land expropriation law in February “blatantly” discriminates against Afrikaner farmers, although there is no hard evidence of this. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"D6W6ASMQ3BELBAANCGLFXGP3GE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I’m sure the Americans would love South Africa to drop that [<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/international-court-of-justice/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/international-court-of-justice/\">International Court of Justice</a>] case, but the residing government believes it has the moral high ground in this instance, so I don’t see the US getting much change on the issue,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RTNGPMP6WZCKRLPJR3IUWNUVLQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Many South Africans see the US’s recent suspension of all overseas aid to their country as a form of punishment for this perceived ill-treatment of Afrikaners and their government’s desire to follow a foreign policy of non-alignment. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"QMPOAUFYTJEWRNGIDPEDFBRKJ4","additional_properties":{},"content":"It is therefore likely the new tariffs will be seen in a similar light by the country – as another form of US retribution. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"DVNQFL6AFVAZPF2HT76DHB3TAM","additional_properties":{},"content":"The tariff developments also bring into focus the importance of replacing South Africa’s recently expelled ambassador to the US with a diplomat capable of engaging the Trump administration effectively. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"HWRZY2KD5FHLDJPLDLW2TGFSCE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ebrahim Rasool was sent packing from the high-profile post in mid-March for commenting in a webinar that he believed the Maga movement was rooted in white supremacy − a view that was poorly received in Washington. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"VBNO2CUZGJHCDONYIGIIKFMGCA","additional_properties":{},"content":"US secretary of state Marco Rubio responded by declaring Rasool persona non grata, describing him as a “a race-baiting politician who hates America”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6XMAU7MKMFFULKWTXWDUN2VQMM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Aside from Rasool’s outburst, South Africa has declined to openly criticise the US for the way it has conducted itself on the world stage this year, preferring to adopt a “soft diplomacy” approach. 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We will not allow the French people to have the presidential election stolen from them.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"YEUWQE7OWNDVVIQIH7NKVEQKME","additional_properties":{},"content":"Le Pen’s more combative turn breaks with her long-held strategy of seeking to “detoxify” the movement her father Jean-Marie Le Pen started more than 50 years ago in order to overcome its racist and xenophobic past.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7X3CGM4FIJDFZL7XYAHDXQ7P2I","additional_properties":{},"content":"The approach has allowed her to steadily increase the RN’s electorate to win over new types of supporters, including older and wealthier voters. Helped by what Le Pen called “the necktie strategy” – her order to MPs to dress soberly – the RN won an unprecedented 123 seats in the National Assembly in last year’s snap election, although it fell far short of its goal to win a majority and the post of prime minister.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L2JYKWRV6RBQVEBC64ZG2DRM2E","additional_properties":{},"content":"Has French court ended Marine Le Pen's political career?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"VOHO7OOFZ5AV3FNECPN742KT3Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Irish Times view: A political earthquake","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"SUBSU6GKORGG5HF5UPYE2ZQW4Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"As Le Pen fights for her political life, she appears to have set the party on a different, more confrontational path on which she is directly challenging the judiciary and undermining checks and balances. RN leaders are also pointing to other things they say show France to be an ailing democracy, such as the broadcast regulator’s recent ban on the C8 television channel, owned by conservative billionaire Vincent Bolloré.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F5AUDBYDRRAZXB2KCXESUODTUE","additional_properties":{},"content":"But RN officials say they will not go down the same path as US president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\">Donald Trump</a>, betting that such an aggressive approach would turn off the swing voters they need to win a two-round presidential election.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AKRMGB6QONEXBJPSLPTRBGJCQE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We’re not going to do a Capitol [riot]. We’re going to follow <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/martin-luther-king/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/martin-luther-king/\">Martin Luther King</a>,” said Philippe Olivier, a senior figure in the RN and Le Pen’s brother-in-law, in a reference to the violent uprising on January 6th 2021 when Trump supporters sought to overturn <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/joe-biden/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/joe-biden/\">Joe Biden</a>’s election win.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NKKKJMULGJGHPCRYWLA44IZ7NY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Jean-Marie Le Pen would have reacted like Trump, but Marine Le Pen is not her father, nor is she like Trump. We’re going to do this differently.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"F3BWSIY7XRAZTOLEMRJGZZXCQI","additional_properties":{},"content":"The appeals court of Paris on Tuesday threw Le Pen a potential lifeline by saying it would aim to have the appeal decided during the summer of 2026, which would allow ample time before the scheduled presidential campaign.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SE2QFRAUKVHFXLX6OTEXUIIJJY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“That’s very good news,” Le Pen told Le Parisien newspaper on Tuesday, adding she also intended to pursue recourse in France’s constitutional court as well as at the European Court of Human Rights. “I will use all possible avenues of appeal.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"7BHAHACMRBG5LPREDQNJ3GR3IY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Early in her political career, Le Pen was a fervent advocate of strict punishments for politicians convicted of crimes, including lifetime bans. She has also pledged to uphold the institutions of the Fifth Republic, although rival politicians are wondering if she may abandon her restraint. If she wants to stoke chaos, she could vote with the left to bring down the government as she did in December.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WZAFAQMDZFCPHHFR4OKAVWD7XE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The RN plans to take more measured action for now, although the rhetoric remains heated.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5QD6ILX5UV53QH7M53XL4CTFDI","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"7WK23UCBPBG4JCFDXFHJOAKWNQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Jordan Bardella, Le Pen’s 29-year-old lieutenant who she has lined up as her successor, condemned “the tyranny of judges” and said “French democracy had been executed”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R4QZR3VMUVEW5CIBB6EEBTSUEY","additional_properties":{},"content":"But in an interview on CNews on Tuesday morning, he toned things down a bit. “I believe that democracy is the violence of words, never physical violence,” Bardella said. “I believe that today, the French people must be outraged, and I say to them: Rise up! Be outraged!”","type":"text"},{"_id":"WCIDWUD7RVEULGZU5CFFWGEHIY","additional_properties":{},"content":"The RN has called for a “peaceful mass mobilisation” and will hold a rally in support of Le Pen in Paris on Sunday. Officials also said that there was a plan to fan out across the country this weekend to talk to voters and hand out flyers. The RN has also launched a petition to rally supporters titled: “Save democracy, Support Marine!”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ERA46QZGFNDPTCA2SEBIM6HWFA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Critics say the party and Le Pen herself are playing with fire because their criticism of the justice system amounts to a challenge to the rule of law and the legitimacy of the courts to apply laws promulgated by parliament. The judges presiding over the case have received serious threats, according to the justice ministry. Police patrolled the home in Paris of the chief judge immediately after the verdict.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FY4LNUWUXFHGBKGHJUJWCGRLGA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Rémy Heitz, the chief prosecutor at France’s highest court of appeal, said such threats were grave, and he defended the court. “The decision is not political, it’s a legal ruling rendered by three independent and impartial judges,” he said. “The threats against judges are totally inadmissible in a democracy.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"WPOLVBXY25EPBACDAUYS67P3NU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Prime minister François Bayrou told the National Assembly on Tuesday that it was not true that the judiciary was undermining French democracy. But he added that “as a citizen” he questioned whether immediate bans from standing for elections before appeals were exhausted were appropriate.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UJALXL47HFEODOOZOTUMKHMRTI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The law under which the judges made their decision was passed by parliament ... It is parliament that will decide whether or not that law should be amended,” Bayrou said. He and his centrist party are facing a second trial on a fake contracts case similar to Le Pen’s, after prosecutors appealed against the first verdict.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BQ6FY6NXSVG5RLXHLFGPEYC62Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"Le Pen’s potential exclusion to succeed president Emmanuel Macron would throw open the race since she was seen as very likely to make the run-off given her loyal base of about one-third of voters. After three unsuccessful bids, it may be the 56-year-old politician’s last chance to convince the public she can govern.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IZQ4G6NWNZH4HPIYV2HC3HNLE4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Legal travails, including bans, for politicians are not new in France, and those affected have also complained about judges. Former president Nicolas Sarkozy has accused the court of over-reach and harassment in his ongoing trial for allegedly taking illegal campaign contributions from Libya.","type":"text"},{"_id":"URSBFPUCQ5F7RIBLUGGRJKJ2EU","additional_properties":{},"content":"François Fillon, right-wing former prime minister, lost his lead ahead of the May 2017 presidential election when police placed him under official investigation in March of that year for employing his wife in a fake job as a parliamentary assistant. His support plummeted. Macron took the Elysée palace.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XUAKOSPH25HQRIJJZ25IZE2MWE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Leaders from the far right and populist governments globally, including Trump, rallied behind Le Pen and attacked the “radical left” for supposedly seeking to eliminate rivals via the judicial system. “This is a very big deal,” Trump said on Monday of Le Pen’s ban. He drew a parallel between the series of legal cases against him, most of which were abandoned upon his re-election. “That sounds like this country. It sounds very much like this country.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6BURXZTAM5FD3IULAHTIB3NAXU","additional_properties":{},"content":"In France, it remains to be seen whether Le Pen’s combative strategy will pay off. She has declined, for now, to pass the mantle to Bardella and chosen to fight on despite the slim chance that she will prevail on appeal before the 2027 campaign.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IKEMYZNO35A5JP2PRIYV7J5OII","additional_properties":{},"content":"A snap poll of about 1,000 people conducted on Monday by research and consultancy group Elabe showed that 57 per cent of those asked said the verdict against Le Pen was normal given the allegations against her. In contrast, 89 per cent of RN voters responded that it was unjust, while majorities voting for other parties thought it was just. Some 68 per cent also said the immediacy of the ban before appeals were exhausted was fair.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WNUZA4IGRZENLKR7K47U54HB3E","additional_properties":{},"content":"Elabe’s Bernard Sananès questioned whether the RN’s communication strategy after the trial was the right one. “For now the RN is not mobilising many people outside their own base. Trying the tactics of Trump may not be the best way to go in France,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A42TNLGISJDU3OUO4RXAQ4HN24","additional_properties":{},"content":"– Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2025","type":"text"},{"_id":"OGQPOMWYFFHLBMFERCXPZHLLIY","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Leila Abboud in Paris"}]},"description":{"basic":"Far-right leader appears to have set her party on a more confrontational path on which she is directly challenging the judiciary"},"display_date":"2025-04-02T11:02:50.63Z","headlines":{"basic":"Fighting for her political life, Marine Le Pen goes on the offensive 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