Foreign affairs and trade minister Helen McEntee faced questions from MEPs this week about the EU’s controversial trading partners, setting up challenging sets of talks ahead.
Militarily neutral Ireland will oversee talks with MEPs about a new system for coordinating transport for militaries and their contractors cross-border, which will be closely linked to Nato.
Released letters show Michael O’Leary contacted three ministers earlier this year, arguing the EU's Emissions Trading System creates a competitive disadvantage for short-haul European airlines.
Europe is building world-class technology companies: A new €5bn EU fund will help them scale – and do so from home, write European Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva and investor Kasim Kutay.
The fate of France and Marine Le Pen is casting a wide shadow over Ireland’s EU presidency and the urgency in getting the long-term budget agreed this year, reports Jonathan Keane in Strasbourg.
EU Inc, the new Europe-wide company registration, is a top priority for McGrath and the EU’s competitiveness agenda. The commissioner is pushing a tight timeline to get it done, reports Jonathan Keane in Strasbourg.
Investment in garda training and equipment complements intelligence-sharing on public-order threats, but gaps in areas like air defence remain.
Irish ministers burned the midnight oil with their colleagues 13 years ago to agree a budget; they can do it again – and more. But they have no leadership capital on social media regulation or climate measures.
As Ireland takes on the EU presidency, the Government’s financial crime assessment finds the country's critical sectors are not immune from bad actors and clandestine operations attempting to evade EU sanctions.
The EU’s new foreign-investor screening rules have largely been centred on managing Chinese investment in Europe’s critical sectors but China is a smaller player in the Irish context.
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