Belgian blue blood, DNA testing and an alleged love childEurope Letter: Artist Delphine Boël claims abdicated King Albert II is biological fatherThu Nov 08 2018 - 01:00
Varadkar ‘throwing doctors and nurses under a bus’Taoiseach criticised over remarks about flawed winter rostering of staff in hospitalsThu Nov 08 2018 - 00:13
Taoiseach wishes he could direct health staff to work through JanuaryVaradkar said he did not have authority to issue directive as this was a matter for HSEWed Nov 07 2018 - 16:01
Brexit: Varadkar sets out second condition for review of backstopTaoiseach says possibility of special Brexit deal summit in November becoming less likelyWed Nov 07 2018 - 13:13
Paschal Donohoe doubles down on opposition to EU digital sales taxMinister reiterates Ireland’s stance at meeting of finance ministers in BrusselsTue Nov 06 2018 - 01:15
May's backstop plan needed by next week, Government saysTaoiseach underlines ‘consistent’ stance on Border in call with British prime ministerTue Nov 06 2018 - 00:05
Call for EU bailout to have additional powersHanseatic League wants ESM to get controls like IMF to guarantee loan sustainabilityMon Nov 05 2018 - 04:55
Backstop agreement may be close but Brexit deal is far from certainBritish and EU negotiators prepared to re-enter ‘tunnel’ amid talk of legal ‘bridge’Sun Nov 04 2018 - 17:00
More backstop guarantees for London under consideration by EUAssurances involve prospect of UK staying in customs union for post-Brexit periodThu Nov 01 2018 - 21:13
Higgins begins work on group to audit €317,000 allowancePresident is expected to make scrutiny proposal to Government following inaugurationThu Nov 01 2018 - 07:03
Chinese ‘one country, two systems’ idea could unlock Brexit impasseEurope Letter: Acceptance of Belfast Agreement logic can bring solution to backstopThu Nov 01 2018 - 01:00
Donald Trump will make Europe a lot less safeUS president’s actions are reversing continent’s move away from arms proliferationFri Oct 26 2018 - 05:00
EU digital tax crusader hopes to sweet-talk IrelandEurope Letter: France’s Bruno Le Maire is mobilising for a cause Dublin is dead againstThu Oct 25 2018 - 01:00
EU gives Italy three weeks to redraft budget or face music‘Excessive debt is an enemy of the people,’ says economic affairs commissionerTue Oct 23 2018 - 15:30
Sharon Donnery in last two for top ECB jobCouncil to meet on Monday week to decide nominationTue Oct 23 2018 - 13:07
EU digital tax discriminates against US companies – senatorsUS committee says tax could almost certainly give rise to double-taxation issuesSun Oct 21 2018 - 12:44
Asia and Europe send strong message to Donald TrumpBrussels summit champions global co-operation in face of US protectionismFri Oct 19 2018 - 17:00
UK’s Brexit transition period may be extendedMerkel and Macron turn up heat on May to find a political solution to impasseFri Oct 19 2018 - 09:36
Next phase of Brexit negotiations will require much sleight of handA better deal may not come, no matter how many extra months are allowed to discuss itFri Oct 19 2018 - 01:00
Ireland will be hugely damaged if UK crashes out of EU - SFDUP and Arlene Foster ‘determined to wreck Belfast Agreement’Thu Oct 18 2018 - 12:09
EU summit on hold as May fails to convince leaders of Brexit progressBritish PM asserts commitment to backstop while Varadkar says time limit unworkableWed Oct 17 2018 - 22:10
Backstop a matter of trust as well as principle, Taoiseach saysLeo Varadkar attending EU summit dinner in Brussels as May comes under pressureWed Oct 17 2018 - 21:15
Some sympathy in EU for extending UK Brexit transition period by a yearSummit consigned to Sisyphean task of rolling huge boulders endlessly uphillWed Oct 17 2018 - 18:50
Poland speeds up contentious court reform in face of EU oppositionEuropean Commission’s Frans Timmermans ‘not optimistic’ Poland will pull backWed Oct 17 2018 - 17:24
Theresa May knows she cannot rely on DUP votes, Michéal Martin saysFianna Fáil leader seeking ‘no election’ assurance from Leo Varadkar before Brexit deal struckWed Oct 17 2018 - 14:14
Brexit: Coveney’s optimism contrasts with Tusk ahead of summitTánaiste ‘confident deal can be done’ as European Council president sounds gloomy noteTue Oct 16 2018 - 17:51
Brexit: Legal argument over scope of article 50 central to difficultiesUnclear if withdrawal agreement can include temporary all-UK customs union in backstopTue Oct 16 2018 - 00:28
Brexit: Theresa May warns against ‘permanent limbo’ of border backstopBackstop promise ‘cannot be time-limited’, Minister for Foreign Affairs insistsMon Oct 15 2018 - 20:27
Britain and EU fail to reach deal ahead of summitBackstop accord elusive for London and Brussels as time-limitation a stumbling blockMon Oct 15 2018 - 10:54
Budapest to ask EU to halt money to NGOs opposed to IsraelEU unlikely to back Hungary’s call to muzzle bodies seeking Israeli boycotts or sanctionsMon Oct 15 2018 - 01:00
Talks between Raab and Barnier fail to lead to Brexit breakthroughDismay in Brussels after UK Brexit secretary’s visit does not resolve Irish backstop issueSun Oct 14 2018 - 19:31
Rich Land, Poor Land: The EU’s wealthiest and neediest membersBulgaria is playing catch-up with western Europe. Super-rich Germany is a different worldSat Oct 13 2018 - 06:00
Shape of backstop begins to emerge as Brexit talks inch forwardAnalysis: Negotiations remain under wraps but Irish backstop deal coming into viewFri Oct 12 2018 - 02:00
EU jobs seem to have lost their lustre for Ireland’s youngEurope Letter: Ireland is severely under-represented among younger officialsThu Oct 11 2018 - 01:00
Welsh first minister fears Brexit ‘fudge’ on Border solutionCarwyn Jones concerned about temporary deal as EU-UK talks intensify in BrusselsWed Oct 10 2018 - 21:52
Irish mussels producer fails in bid to bring European appealCompany says financial losses caused by implementation of an EU regulationTue Oct 09 2018 - 16:03
DUP delegation reiterates stance to EU negotiators in BrusselsFoster says party rejects any barrier to trade between Northern Ireland and BritainTue Oct 09 2018 - 15:27
DUP chief signals to EU there can be no barrier to NI-UK tradeFoster clarifies ‘blood red lines’ as fundamental issues that ‘mattered very greatly’Tue Oct 09 2018 - 14:26
Brexit: EU postpones key paper on future UK relationshipMichel Barnier keen that paper reflects evolving UK position on customs union and backstopMon Oct 08 2018 - 16:13
Ireland join three other member states to oppose EU digital tax planIreland, the Czech Republic, Finland and Sweden say tax would contravene bilateral treatiesMon Oct 08 2018 - 05:10
North’s Remainer leaders warn against any DUP veto on backstopHeads of Remainer parties tell Barnier and Verhofstadt of need to mitigate Brexit effectsFri Oct 05 2018 - 15:50
Brexit: Taoiseach says any new trade arrangement must have level playing fieldVaradkar warns of ‘constraints’ on flagged new Brexit backstop proposalsThu Oct 04 2018 - 19:09
Ireland efficient at getting funds, EU auditors findIn 2017 Ireland received €1.5 billion in agriculture subsidies out of its total receipts of €1.8 billionThu Oct 04 2018 - 05:35
Belgium opens up to horrors of its colonial pastEurope Letter: What are museums for? Recasting Belgium’s national narrativeThu Oct 04 2018 - 01:00
Budget battle: Italian populism takes on EU prudenceThe new Italian government’s pledged expansionary budget is a worry for BrusselsWed Oct 03 2018 - 02:00
Brexit: Labour backs ‘no hard Border’, says CorbynParty set to vote down any departure agreement that fails to meet key testsThu Sept 27 2018 - 20:08
The opaque world of MEPs’ expenses is cause for concernEurope Letter: A monthly €4,416 allowance has been heavily criticised by journalistsThu Sept 27 2018 - 01:00
Court blocks request for access to MEPs’ expensesInvestigative journalists, including Gavin Sheridan, had sought access to the dataTue Sept 25 2018 - 11:11
European Commission takes UK and Poland to taskPoland at centre of legal case over judges, while €2.7bn in duties demanded from UKMon Sept 24 2018 - 18:10
EU leaders reject Theresa May’s Brexit proposalsProspect of deal between EU and UK is as far away as ever after fractious EU summit at SalzburgFri Sept 21 2018 - 04:43
