President Donald Trump will meet with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin on Wednesday, with Trump’s trade policies and the conflict in Gaza among the likely topics of conversation. The annual White House meeting to mark St. Patrick’s Day is usually a relatively straightforward affair for both the United States and Ireland. The leader of the Irish government typically presents the president with a bowl of shamrock as a symbolic gift, a tradition that will be observed during this visit.
The European Union has announced retaliatory trade actions with new duties on U.S. industrial and farm products, responding within hours to the Trump administration’s increases in tariffs on all EU steel and aluminum imports to 25 percent….