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THE European Commission has called on Business Secretary Greg Clark to come clean about private dealings with Nissan amid concerns that the government has breached EU state-aid rules.
So far Westminster has refused to release his letter to Nissan, thought to set out assurances over Brexit and sweeteners to stop the car giant moving its operations abroad.
Trade expert Professor Ian Wooton last week told the Scottish government that “it’s very, very difficult to imagine how this can actually be a credible offer unless behind it is some offsetting subsidy that would compensate any tariffs.”
Once again, working people have been betrayed with false promises about jobs in an industry that is actually making climate change worse, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
It’s the dramatic rise of China with its burgeoning economy that has put the Trump administration into a frenzy – with major implications both at home and abroad, argues MICHAEL BURKE