Ireland’s Donohoe Sees Energy, Trade Risk From Mideast Tensions

Paschal Donohoe

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Tensions in the Middle East are adding risk in the energy and trade sectors, according to the Eurogroup President.

“I do have to acknowledge the economic risks that are there,” Paschal Donohoe, who is also Ireland’s Finance Minister, said on a panel at Bloomberg’s Future of Finance in Ireland event. “ there is what could happen from an energy and trade perspective, the price of energy, ability of access for goods to move around the world.”