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EU ends daily €15,000 fines as controversial Galway windfarm Derrybrien shuts

The wind farm is capable of powering 40,000 homes, but it failed to get retrospective planning permission

Lucinda Creighton: Ireland is asleep at the wheel as the EU single market is being undone

The Irish government is alarmingly silent even though we face being hardest hit by the European Commission move to undo the framework that creates a level playing field by prohibiting subsidies to industry across Europe

Von der Leyen says final Brexit deal on Northern Ireland is ‘within reach’

The president of the European Commission gave a landmark speech to the joint houses of the Oireachtas

'A hindrance' - EU harshly criticises Ireland’s failure to help with cross-border crime

The head of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office has appealed for Ireland to co-operate with her investigations

Irishman Tony Murphy elected president of European Court of Auditors

Murphy previously worked for Ireland’s Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General before moving to Brussels to work as a national expert at the European Commission in 1999

Lucinda Creighton: von der Leyen heavy on ideals but light on detail in energy crisis speech

The European Commission president’s address in Strasbourg last week fell short on both a big vision for reform of the energy market and on practical steps that are likely to really make a difference to European citizens

State moves to close EU case over controversial Galway wind farm

Fines relating to Derrybrien development total €13 million since 2019

Confusion and questions over best options for protection for fleeing Ukrainians

A Temporary Protection Directive activated by the European Council offers a range of entitlements to those fleeing the war in Ukraine, but many of the earlier arrivals in Ireland face a decision on whether they should continue with their initial applications for international protection

Fiscal rules of EU were ‘drawn out of thin air’ — Nobel prize winning economist

Prof Joseph Stiglitz says growth and stability pact has ‘fundamental flaws’ and is counterproductive for the European economy

John Gibbons: ‘Green’ Ireland’s eco-hypocrisy called out by Europe

The demonising of environmental defenders and the undermining of the law on environmental protection has been denounced by a senior EU Commission official

Donohoe was advised to warn EU off muddying waters on tax reform

The Minister for Finance met the bloc’s economy commissioner ahead of Ireland’s crunch decision on corporation tax reform

New authority to regulate ‘critical entities’ could be formed under EU proposals

Agency would ensure resilience of business, public sector and utilities in case of ‘disruptive incidents’ such as natural disasters

New EU climate proposals to include a social fund and plans to end the aviation tax exemption on kerosene fuel

Leaked proposals include the launch of a new emissions trading scheme for transport and heating and a target for all new cars in the EU to be zero emissions by 2035

Editorial: State must play a more active role in insurance reform

Insurance Ireland was found to have broken EU competition rules, and its delay in acting on these finding leaves room for more concern

Ireland’s share of EU recovery fund to be cut by €352 million

New documents show the country’s allocation of €420m for 2023 has been cut down to just €68m

Lucinda Creighton: This is a war, and Big Pharma must be conscripted into battle

The EU’s response to the vaccine roll-out has been dispiriting. Massive state intervention is urgently needed to ramp up vaccine production by pharma giants