European news for Ireland
Ryanair has urged the EU to act after French air traffic control strikes resulted in the cancellation of hundreds of flights. The Irish-based carrier cancelled 170 flights yesterday and today.…
Computers, phones and banking services must be accessible to all under a new European law that has just come into force. The European Accessibility Act has now entered into application…
The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has ruled that the government broke EU law in the way that it used facial recognition technology in the registration process for Public Services Cards.…
Data centres used 22 percent of Ireland’s electricity last year, up from 5 percent less than ten years ago. Power-hungry computer servers are essential to Ireland’s tech industry. But the…
The European Commission has criticised the Irish government for failing on social housing, environmental targets and for an unbalanced economy in a new report. Officially calls “country specific recommendations…on the…
Renewable energy failed to keep pace with Ireland’s increasing demand for electricity last year, new figures show. The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) has just published its Interim National…
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined video sharing platform, TikTok, €530 million for allowing European users’ personal data to be accessed in China. Under EU law, European users’…
Social network X, formally known as Twitter, has lost more than 10 million users in the European Union since last year, according to data submitted by the company to the…
The EU is “very unlikely” to meet its ambition of taking a 20 percent slice of the global microchip market by 2030, the European Court of Auditors has warned. Developing…
Ursula von der Leyen and Donald Trump will meet when a deal is ready to be done, said an EU spokesperson on Monday. The European Commission President and US President…