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Macron Urges Europe Strategic Autonomy Amid US-China Tension

During his visit to China, Macron sought to delineate a difference in relations compared with the US’s tougher approach to Beijing

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

Rebranded Northern Ireland protocol to involve major EU concessions

The Windsor Framework will maintain the controversial role of the European Court of Justice in Northern Ireland, but with increased democratic oversight

Confirmed: EU and UK strike deal on Northern Ireland protocol

An agreement marks the end of a three-year ordeal since Britain officially left the EU in 2020

Irish trade with Russia holding up despite sanctions imposed by EU

Irish exports for 2022 to Russia were largely the same as the previous year, while imports from Russia for 2022 fell by a third

Ukraine: How Russia’s invasion set the EU on a new path to its eastern borders

The war in Ukraine has caused a huge shift in global geopolitics – especially in the EU, where the bloc’s approach to energy, security and migration has been transformed

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

‘Parliament isn’t riddled with corruption, but self-policing doesn’t work’ – EU Ombudsman

Emily O’Reilly says real action must follow the “shock-horror“ reaction of her colleagues in Brussels to a recent corruption scandal at the heart of the European Union

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

EU to propose mandatory power-demand cut and levy on profits

Member states still need to sign off on steps after talks this week

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

Lucinda Creighton: Von der Leyen must hold the line on Poland and Hungary

Sitting back and doing nothing will only encourage other EU states to behave in the manner of the two recalcitrant eastern European nations

Lucinda Creighton: When it comes to security, there’s no substitute for the ‘special relationship’

Europe is right to grow its own defences in a time of global uncertainty, but nurturing the EU-US alliance must be prioritised

Von der Leyen urges action on global warming as catastrophic floods kill hundreds in Europe

The European Commission president said that the events were a ‘clear indication of climate change’ during a visit to Dublin last week

Lucinda Creighton: The tariff war is over for now, but the road ahead for EU and US trade looks bumpy

Joe Biden may not believe in America First, but his nationalistic approach to trade is clear to see

Lucinda Creighton: ‘Sofagate’ shows it’s time we clarify who speaks for Europe

Ursula von der Leyen’s indignation at being snubbed by the Turkish president and her own colleague, the President of the European Council, shows the need to have one clear recognisable leader for the EU

Cathal Mac Coille: Proposed travel cert is not a vaccine passport and is fraught with risk

The EU green cert, for those who have been vaccinated, recovered from Covid-19 or tested negative, will miss many cases and will also create ethical and civil liberties issues

Susan O’Keeffe: Vaccine hubris has been undermined by reality

Tough talk between political leaders and states will not increase the supply of vaccines, a more collaborative approach is needed instead

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

Susan O’Keeffe: We must work to turn Biden’s love of Ireland into tangible benefit

With the new US president one of the last Irish-American political heavyweights, we must ensure that our relationship with the US is ready for the future, not stuck in the past