Romania's president Nicușor Dan, Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Lithuania's president Gitanas Nauseda at the EU leaders' retreat in Belgium. Photograph: Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty ImagesIreland has “nothing to fear” from a push by a coalition of EU countries to plough ahead with internal financial reforms in the event all 27 member states cannot agree on them, the Taoiseach has said. Speaking before the informal summit, Martin said Ireland was “positive” about EU reforms intended to make it easier for capital and investment to move around the union’s market. Officials in Brussels say the reforms would incentivise people to put money sitting in bank accounts into European investment funds, creating pots of money businesses could raise cash from. “There are concerns around central supervision: we would have concerns about one single authority,” Martin said.

Source: The Irish Times February 12, 2026 23:17 UTC