Business Journalist
Irish companies employing UK nationals working in other EU member states are being alerted to changes arising from Brexit which mean that their employees are now subject to potential work permission requirements.
The same requirement applies to EU national employees hired here who need to travel to the UK for work purposes.
The accounting and professional services firm PwC is drawing employers attention to the changes, saying even companies that had carried out detailed advance planning for Brexit were encountering issues in this regard.
PwC is warning businesses in such circumstances that there may also be restrictions and time limits on the activities these employees can carry out as business travellers.
Executive Summary
• Despite the Biden administration’s push to revitalize U.S. alliances, U.S. relations with NATO are due for a reset. The United States should incentivize European members of NATO to take on additional responsibilities for their defense.
• Encouraging the European allies to take initiative will help the United States focus on its other domestic and international priorities and may facilitate improving relations with Russia. This approach will also prove attractive to European states concerned about the future direction of U.S. foreign policy.
• Recalibrating the U.S. role in Europe would conform with the United States’ post–World War II efforts to stabilize European security and stand as the fruit of Washington’s success in this regard.
In a year of surprises, one of the more pleasant was the recent runaway viral popularity of 19th century sea shanties on TikTok. A collaborative global response to pandemic isolation, it saw singers and musicians layering harmonies atop an original recording of Soon May the Wellerman Come by Scottish postie Nathan Evans.
Spread via TokTok and other social media, it has become the most popular song in the “ShantyTok” trend. What many fans possibly didn’t realise at first, though, was that the Wellerman shanty is an old New Zealand composition.
More than that, it is a window into an earlier era of global interconnection that shaped the social and economic history of our southern coasts.