Europe Lucinda Creighton: Softening of Von der Leyen’s green rhetoric plays to her electoral baseIn her state of the union speech, the European Commission president focused on policies that are likely to get her re-elected
Europe Von der Leyen pledges to help Italy curb migrant waveMigrant influx into Italy has increased by two-fold since Giorgia Meloni took Italian office
Von der Leyen warns of lengthy inflation battle and acute EU labour shortagesThe European Commission president warned that labour shortages were now a key issue facing the EU
EU ‘The future of Ukraine is in our Union’ - Ursula Von Der Leyen tells MEPs in wide-ranging State of the Union addressThe Commission president recommitted to the EU’s green transition, called for new governance of AI, and outlined plans to make it easier to do business in Europe
Aviation Ryanair delivers petition to European Commission calling for protection of overflights Petition contained signatures from 1.1m ‘fed-up passengers’, airline says
Macron Urges Europe Strategic Autonomy Amid US-China TensionDuring his visit to China, Macron sought to delineate a difference in relations compared with the US’s tougher approach to Beijing
Aviation 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
Politics Rebranded Northern Ireland protocol to involve major EU concessionsThe Windsor Framework will maintain the controversial role of the European Court of Justice in Northern Ireland, but with increased democratic oversight
Politics Confirmed: EU and UK strike deal on Northern Ireland protocolAn agreement marks the end of a three-year ordeal since Britain officially left the EU in 2020
Trade 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
War in Ukraine Ukraine: How Russia’s invasion set the EU on a new path to its eastern bordersThe 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
Economics Lucinda Creighton: Ireland is asleep at the wheel as the EU single market is being undoneThe 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
European Union ‘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
EU 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
Energy Crisis EU to propose mandatory power-demand cut and levy on profitsMember states still need to sign off on steps after talks this week
Energy Crisis Exclusive: EU plans to tackle energy crisis are revealedPlans 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 HungarySitting 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 EuropeThe 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 bumpyJoe Biden may not believe in America First, but his nationalistic approach to trade is clear to see
