Tag: EU
9 days ago
inews.co.uk

EU will be Labour’s ‘number-one priority’ for British foreign policy, says Lammy

EU ambassadors describe dealing with Starmer as 'like honey on toast' in comparison to Tory ministers, says shadow fo...

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3 months ago
inews.co.uk

Keir Starmer warned he can't renegotiate Brexit deal without rejoining EU single market

You can’t just walk into Brussels on day one and say we demand better terms, shadow minister tells i

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3 months ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

DUP needs to realise PM cares more about the EU than its tests, says Stormont’s former Brexit chief

The man who was Stormont’s most senior official dealing with Brexit has said that the DUP needs to realise that the G...

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3 months ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Stormont officials knew of cross-border cattle smuggling during BSE – but didn’t want public to know

Senior Stormont officials knew in 1997 that systemic smuggling of cattle across the border was dangerously underminin...

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5 months ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

DAERA inspector faces charges linked to unlawful possession of vet medicine

A Stormont veterinary inspector who last month won a string of medals at the Balmoral Show is facing multiple charges...

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6 months ago
inews.co.uk

EU should ban short-haul flights where rail alternatives exist, suggests Belgian politician

France has imposed a ban on domestic flights of under 2.5 hours where passengers could take a train

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7 months ago
express.co.uk

EU 'scared' Trump 2024 win would see US play into Putin's hands over Ukraine war

The Republican Party remains bitterly divided over whether the US should continue its support for Ukraine in its war ...

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8 months ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Manufacturing NI boss says time to ‘grasp opportunity’ of Windsor Framework

The Windsor Framework is a unique economic opportunity which must be grasped, a manufacturing boss has said.

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8 months ago
independent.ie

How would you spend €65bn? Ireland’s new sovereign wealth fund targets housing, pensions and clim...

A new national reserve fund that would set aside some of the €65bn in budget surpluses forecast over the next four ye...

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8 months ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

How one Stormont department faces a massive crisis of its own making

Government vets are like power station engineers or sewerage treatment plant workers — unseen by most of us but criti...

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9 months ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Stormont Brake law looks like a unionist veto but it clearly isn’t

The ‘Stormont Brake’ legislation sounds like a unionist veto, but it clearly isn’t.

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9 months ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Buying GB plants online seems set to be banned under EU deal... and NI Secretary misled public

Brexit has emphasised how politics impacts the way in which we live our lives: what we eat, where we travel, whether ...

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9 months ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

The grocery border: why it won’t be enforced even if it is breaking the law

Hidden in the Windsor Framework is a new border which appears nowhere in the text, but whose implications could be pr...

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9 months ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

The invisible border: why it won’t be enforced even if it is breaking the law

Hidden in the Windsor Framework is a new border which appears nowhere in the text, but whose implications could be pr...

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9 months ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Why DUP members are divided about a defining decision for them, and for Northern Ireland

Behind the scenes in the DUP this week, there have been heated arguments between some of the party’s senior Westminst...

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9 months ago
cgmagonline.com

Eu Extends Microsoft-activision Merger Deadline

The European Commission postpones ruling on Microsoft's purchase of Activision Blizzard for $69 billion.

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9 months ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

DUP’s NI Protocol dilemma: Clear that most of its seven tests not met

For more than a year and a half, the DUP has bored anyone in earshot by repeating the mantra that any deal on the NI ...

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9 months ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Why the devil will be in the detail as Sunak tries to sell his agreement to DUP

The problem with dishonesty is that when you’re telling the truth people might not believe you.

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10 months ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

A revised protocol won’t protect EU, but a new anti-smuggling agency certainly can

Two months ago I received an email I initially thought was spam, and then thought was a leak from within government.

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10 months ago
inews.co.uk

Brexit deal hopes rise as EU says 'finishing line in sight'

Officials are understood to be looking at Thursday as the possible date for an agreement to be struck after months of...

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10 months ago
independent.ie

‘A lot of Irish people don’t like to follow rules’ – head of EU Medicines Agency backs calls for ...

The Irish woman who led the roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine across Europe has backed calls for a public inquiry into...

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10 months ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Stormont devolution could be history unless a new party emerges

At midnight a year ago today, Paul Givan’s resignation as First Minister collapsed devolution.

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10 months ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Even moderate unionists and nationalists are divided on why support for Good Friday Agreement is ...

The Good Friday Agreement was meant to unite Northern Ireland’s divided society, and it still unites a clear majority...

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12 months ago
irishcentral.com

Why the Irish love Malta and why you should visit in 2023

Malta, dotted with no shortage of Irish bars and Irish expats, is a blend of the familiar and strange that makes each...

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12 months ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Northern Ireland Protocol Bill shelved until new year to allow time for February deal with EU - r...

Progress on the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill has been shelved until the new year in a bid to allow time for a deal ...

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about 1 year ago
independent.ie

Sinn Féin hosted ally of controversial and ‘repressive’ Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega

Sinn Féin is declining to say why an adviser to controversial Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega was invited to its a...

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about 1 year ago
independent.ie

EU's Eurogroup yet to agree proposal to allow both Paschal Donohoe and Michael McGrath to attend ...

The Government has not received any guarantee from EU colleagues that its plan to send both Paschal Donohoe and Micha...

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about 1 year ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Trade deal with EU must deliver for NI economy, says Sir Jeffrey Donaldson

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has said he looks forward to “a privileged trading relationship with the EU” for Northern Irela...

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about 1 year ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Steve Baker’s apology is proof that he’s a more unpredictable — and capable — politician than we ...

The shock at Steve Baker’s repentance for past hubris on Brexit says more about the simplistic ignorance of his criti...

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about 1 year ago
independent.ie

Households to get €600 in three energy credits paid over six months

Households are in line for three discounts of €200 or more on their electricity bills between now and next spring, un...

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over 1 year ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Sam McBride: Northern Ireland isn’t a key priority for Liz Truss… and four other things we learne...

When Liz Truss’s hero Margaret Thatcher first entered Downing Street as Prime Minister in 1979 she famously quoted th...

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over 1 year ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

European Union readying retaliatory trade sanctions if Liz Truss moves to override Northern Irela...

The European Union is readying measures to impose trade sanctions on the UK in retaliation to any potential move by C...

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over 1 year ago
cityam.com

Russian economy contracts by four per cent due to impacts of Western sanctions

The Russian is now four per cent smaller than it was a year ago, according to new figures from the country’s state st...

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over 1 year ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Sam McBride: If even David Trimble opposed NI Protocol, how can EU play the Good Friday card?

The clamour of praise for David Trimble — from Washington and Dublin to the Falls Road and former unionist foes — und...

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over 1 year ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Sam McBride: Post-Brexit contradictions and uncertainty surround both Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak

On a sunny May day six weeks before the EU Referendum in 2016, Liz Truss arrived at the Balmoral Show to campaign aga...

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over 1 year ago
independent.ie

Government U-turn on climate action funding after complaint to EU

Future payments into the €500m Climate Action Fund (CAF) have been plunged into uncertainty after the Government roll...

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over 1 year ago
cityam.com

UK Foreign Office to pay £423,000 to settle whistleblower's employment claim

The UK government has agreed to pay £423,000 to settle an employment lawsuit brought forward by one of its former pro...

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over 1 year ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Liz Truss: I've no regrets over NI Protocol support, we needed to get Brexit done

Liz Truss has said she does not regret voting for the Northern Ireland Protocol that she now says is disastrous, sugg...

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over 1 year ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Northern Ireland firms face being kicked out of EU single market if Protocol Bill becomes law, wa...

Northern Irish firms will almost certainly lose access to the EU single market if Boris Johnson’s legislation to tear...

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