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Ursula von der Leyen

Europe

Lucinda Creighton: Softening of Von der Leyen’s green rhetoric plays to her electoral base

In her state of the union speech, the European Commission president focused on policies that are likely to get her re-elected
  • Lucinda Creighton
  • September 24, 2023
Europe

Von der Leyen pledges to help Italy curb migrant wave

Migrant influx into Italy has increased by two-fold since Giorgia Meloni took Italian office
  • Business Post
  • September 17, 2023

Simply Better
Back to School

Delicious recipes by Neven Maguire

Von der Leyen warns of lengthy inflation battle and acute EU labour shortages

The European Commission president warned that labour shortages were now a key issue facing the EU
  • Daniel Murray
  • September 13, 2023
EU

‘The future of Ukraine is in our Union’ - Ursula Von Der Leyen tells MEPs in wide-ranging State of the Union address

The 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
  • Daniel Murray
  • September 13, 2023
Aviation

Ryanair delivers petition to European Commission calling for protection of overflights

Petition contained signatures from 1.1m ‘fed-up passengers’, airline says
  • Sarah McGuinness
  • May 31, 2023

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
  • Angelina Rascouet
  • April 10, 2023
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
  • Emmet Ryan
  • March 20, 2023
Politics

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
  • Daniel Murray
  • February 27, 2023
Politics

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
  • Daniel Murray
  • February 27, 2023
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
  • Daniel Murray
  • February 5, 2023
War in Ukraine

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
  • Daniel Murray
  • January 6, 2023
Economics

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
  • Lucinda Creighton
  • December 17, 2022
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
  • Daniel Murray
  • December 16, 2022
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
  • Daniel Murray
  • December 1, 2022
Energy Crisis

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

Member states still need to sign off on steps after talks this week
  • Bloomberg
  • September 13, 2022
Energy Crisis

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
  • Lorcan Allenand
  • Daniel Murray
  • September 3, 2022

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
  • October 24, 2021

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
  • Lucinda Creighton
  • September 19, 2021

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
  • Daniel Murray
  • July 18, 2021

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
  • June 20, 2021

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