# brussels - Thursday 23 June, 2022
# EU Summit
# EU Summit
EU leaders met to consider applications for EU candidacy from Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia.
# brussels - Monday 30 May, 2022
# Brussels
# Brussels
The EU has already slapped five rounds of sanctions on Russia over its actions in Ukraine.
# brussels - Wednesday 11 May, 2022
# Brussels
# Brussels
The plan calls for a European centre to combat child sexual abuse, based in The Hague and working with police agency Europol.
# brussels - Sunday 8 May, 2022
# Brussels
# Brussels
Several member states, most vocally Hungary, have demanded exemptions from the ban.
# brussels - Tuesday 19 April, 2022
# Paris Attacks
# Paris Attacks
The 14 accused are suspected of transporting, housing or financially helping some of the perpetrators of the 2015 Paris attacks.
# brussels - Monday 11 April, 2022
# Brussels
# Brussels
Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said banning Russian oil was “very difficult for some member states”.
# brussels - Friday 25 March, 2022
# Covid-19
# Covid-19
The CMO has not recommended re-introducing measures to curb the spread of the virus.
# brussels - Wednesday 23 March, 2022
# Meetings
# Meetings
The Taoiseach Micheál Martin and other leaders are also travelling to Brussels on Thursday.
# brussels - Friday 4 March, 2022
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
The Foreign Affairs minister spoke ahead of a meeting of ministers to discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
# brussels - Wednesday 8 December, 2021
# Brussels Bombings
# Brussels Bombings
Six of the suspects are already on trial in France over the November 2015 Paris attacks.
# brussels - Sunday 5 December, 2021
# Brussels
# Brussels
Thousands of people gathered in Brussels to demonstrate against the latest restrictions announced on Friday.
# brussels - Thursday 21 October, 2021
# Covid Pass
# Covid Pass
Speaking in Brussels today, he said the Government was looking at further options to ensure Covid rules were being followed.
# brussels - Wednesday 16 June, 2021
# Hungary
# Hungary
She said the European Commission is “assessing if it breaches relevant EU legislation”.
# brussels - Wednesday 26 May, 2021
# Brussels
# Brussels
The Anglo-Swedish company is set to provide 70 million doses in the second quarter – it had promised 180 million.
# brussels - Tuesday 13 April, 2021
# Returned
# Returned
The “Togatus” marble piece was looted in 2011 from a villa in Rome.
# brussels - Thursday 1 April, 2021
# Belgium
# Belgium
The festival, dubbed ‘La Boum’ or ‘the party’, had been advertised on social media and police warned that it was a fake event on April Fool’s Day.
# brussels - Friday 11 December, 2020
# Grumbles In Brussels
# Grumbles In Brussels
Leaders also came to a compromise yesterday to clear the way for a €1.8 trillion Covid-19 recovery package.
# brussels - Tuesday 17 November, 2020
# Level Playing Fields
# Level Playing Fields
It’s another crunch week on the Brexit front – so what are the sticking points?
# brussels - Wednesday 4 November, 2020
# Brexit
# Brexit
Time is running short for a deal to be in place before the transition period expires at the end of the year.
# brussels - Thursday 15 October, 2020
# Brussels
# Brussels
EU leaders met today in Brussels for a two-day summit.
# brussels - Friday 9 October, 2020
# Time Running Out
# Time Running Out
No 10 says there have been ‘useful discussions’ but that differences remain on some ‘important issues’.
# brussels - Tuesday 8 September, 2020
# MEP
# MEP
Colm Markey will replace Mairead McGuinness as an MEP.
# brussels - Sunday 6 September, 2020
# Brexit
# Brexit
David Frost was speaking in an interview with the Mail on Sunday.
# brussels - Tuesday 1 September, 2020
# Essential Workers
# Essential Workers
Billy Kelleher, Seán Kelly, and Ciarán Cuffe have written to Taoiseach Micheál Martin to ask for MEPs to be treated as essential workers for travel purposes.
# brussels - Thursday 27 August, 2020
# Unrelenting Pressure
# Unrelenting Pressure
The unending revelations from GolfGate took a toll on the trade commissioner.
# brussels - Wednesday 19 August, 2020
# Negotiations
# Negotiations
Officials from the EU and UK sides will enter into detailed haggling today and tomorrow.
# brussels - Monday 20 July, 2020
# Brussels
# Brussels
The leaders are gathering briefly this morning after spending the night negotiating in smaller groups.
# brussels - Sunday 19 July, 2020
# Brussels
# Brussels
Frugal states are resisting pleas to agree to a plan to help the countries hardest hit by the pandemic.
# brussels - Sunday 5 July, 2020
# Brussels
# Brussels
Kelleher said it was “an error of judgement” to attend the Dáil sitting in the Convention Centre.
# brussels - Wednesday 8 April, 2020
# Coronabonds
# Coronabonds
Italy and Spain are insisting on a solidarity fund but this is being resisted by Germany.
# brussels - Friday 21 February, 2020
# No Deal
# No Deal
Leo Varadkar had said that the budget proposal as it stood was “not something [Ireland] can accept”.
# brussels - Tuesday 11 February, 2020
# Brussels
# Brussels
Fianna Fáil’s Barry Andrews has given his first address to parliament after what he called “a tough week” for his party.
# brussels - Friday 18 October, 2019
# The 27 Musketeers
# The 27 Musketeers
In an attempt to comfort unionists, Varadkar said “the queen will still be the queen; the pound will still be the pound”.
# brussels - Thursday 17 October, 2019
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# brussels - Monday 14 October, 2019
# Brexit
# Brexit
There are doubts about the feasibility of a British proposal to track goods as they move through Northern Ireland.
# brussels - Friday 11 October, 2019
# Brexit
# Brexit
The talks will indicate whether discussions between the Taoiseach and Prime Minister Boris Johnson paved way for a potential breakthrough.
# brussels - Friday 27 September, 2019
# 35 Days To Go
# 35 Days To Go
The meeting took place against the backdrop of a chaotic week in UK politics.
# brussels - Friday 6 September, 2019
# Courts
# Courts
The man was found with €500,000 in cash at Dublin Airport in 2015.
# brussels - Sunday 7 July, 2019
# New Recruits
# New Recruits
Committee memberships, travel woes and accidentally calling the fire department. All in a week’s work.
# brussels - Thursday 20 June, 2019
# Tensions
# Tensions
Varadkar reiterated that the EU is not prepared to reopen the Withdrawal Agreement again.
