About this episode

Naomi discusses the implications of Donald Trump's newly declared tariffs on Ireland and the EU.

In the last 24 hours the global economic order may have transformed forever, as Donald Trump declares crushing tariffs for countries all over the world, not least the European Union. In this hot-off-the-press episode, Naomi explains what this might mean for Ireland and the EU, how the figures add up (or how they don't) and why the reasoning behind these new tariffs has experts all over the world scratching their heads ...

People in this episode

Host: Naomi

Topics covered

• tariffs
• Ireland
• European Union
• global economy
• politics
• trade

Keywords

• tariffs
• Donald Trump
• European Union
• Ireland
• global economy
• trade policy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: European Union

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