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Ryanair calls on EU Commission to stop disruption from French air traffic control strikes

The airline has launched a petition seeking to get one million signatures for protection for passengers during French air traffic control (ATC) strikes

Court date set for showdown on Apple’s €13bn Irish taxes case

The multinational and the Irish state have consistently argued that no extra taxes are owed

Commercial Property

European Commission group joins Lioncor in House of Europe ‘topping out’

The 3,065 square metre European Parliament office building will house the Europa Experience visitor centre

European Commission bans staff from using TikTok

Employees given until March 15 to get rid of the social media app, the commission said in an email to employees on Thursday

Ireland bucks European trend of cutting back on natural gas use

Since the Ukraine war tightened European supply, most member states have slashed consumption by a fifth, while here it rose by 3 per cent

Government's €450m subsidy for apartment developers still waiting for European Commission approval

The scheme, which proposes to pay developers €450 million to build apartment projects for purchase by individuals and families, not funds, was launched in 2021, but has been unable to proceed

Galway wind farm fines hit €16 million amid disagreement between Department and European Commission

Controversial development subject to ongoing infringement case following landslide in 2003

Insurance probe finds lobby group made it ‘difficult, if not impossible’ to enter Irish market

Margrethe Vestager, EC competition chief, says her official’s probe into how Insurance Ireland operated a claims database effectively kept competition from entering the market

Northern Ireland Protocol

Ahern attempts to find common ground on a prickly protocol

The former taoiseach has been operating as a low-key diplomat by meeting individuals from all sides of the NI protocol debate, at the request of the former Northern Secretary Conor Burns

New state aid scheme to provide electricity grants up to €500k for struggling firms

Firms who avail of the scheme must show that their operating profits have declined by at least 15% this year due to rising energy costs

Google loses EU appeal against record antitrust fine

EU judges mostly backed the European Commission’s decision to impose the penalty, but cut the fine to €4.1 billion

Irish authorities were told gas flow could drop by 12% if Russia cuts supply to EU

Gazprom’s failure to bring the Nord Stream 1 pipeline back online last Friday has given rise to fears across Europe that a full-scale cut-off from Russian gas may already be underway

Exclusive: EU plans to tackle energy crisis are revealed

Plans amount to radical reform of European electricity system as the energy price crisis continues to spiral out of control

Government scrambling to devise SME supports as power bills soar

Taoiseach Micheál Martin says that some of the recent surge in tax revenue will be used to fund a once-off cost of living package in the upcoming budget

EU launches new legal procedures against UK over NI protocol

European Commission says the aim of the infringement procedures is to secure compliance with the protocol in a number of key areas

EU proposes 15% cut in gas consumption amid Russian supply concern

As first reported by the Business Post on Sunday, a new document published on Wednesday is urging member states to “Save gas for a safe winter”

Inflation to peak later and persist for longer, EU forecasts

European Commission has cut the euro-area economy growth forecast for 2023 to 1.4% from 2.3%

Large energy-consuming firms preparing for gas rationing in winter

As energy crisis unfolds across Europe, business leaders say they expect to be asked to shut down or reduce operations if the state implements emergency gas rationing protocols

Insurance Ireland facing heavy fines over claims data access

Lobby group must meet commitments that would allow new entrants to the sector to access to a key claims information database

Corre Energy raises almost €11m from investors

The Dublin-listed energy storage and renewables company had been seeking to raise up to €15m to accelerate its pipeline of projects under development