This week on Taking Stock Mandy Johnston looks at the benefits of putting your foot down at work and simply saying 'no'.

Michael McGrath got the Justice portfolio in the European Commission, but how did the rest of Europe fare when the big jobs were being handed out? EuroNews Reporter Jorge Liboreiro chats to Mandy.

And two and a half years on Mandy looks at the war in Ukraine and where it stands now as the people of Ukraine head into another winter.