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.
The only EU agency based in Ireland was founded more than 50 years ago, carrying out research into European living and working conditions.
Mubadala is pumping $200 million into a joint venture with existing investors to take control of the electricity cable connecting Ireland to the UK.
EU foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas was in Dublin this week as international pressure on Ireland and the EU to take action against the Russian-owned Limerick refinery ramps up.
The former secretary general of the Department of Enterprise talks competitiveness, investment and the EU presidency.
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