European news for Ireland
The European Commission is considering relaxing rules which limit the type of state aid EU governments can provide towards affordable housing. Ursula von der Leyen promised that as part of…
The European Commission has approved €211 million Irish state funding to support television and film production “with Irish and European cultural content”. The government tax credit scheme is designed to…
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…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has identified 43 “significant risks” to Ireland caused by climate change. The EPA has carried out Ireland’s first National Climate Change Risk Assessment (NCCRA) with…
Trump tariffs and consumer uncertainty will cause Ireland’s economic growth to fall considerably next year, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has warned. The OECD, a respected intergovernmental…
A doubling of tariffs on steel exports to the US undermines EU efforts to reach a deal with the Trump administration, the European Commission says. Over the weekend, US President…
The European Commission has sponsored a garden at Bord Bia Bloom to demonstrate the circular economy. The “Renewed Blooms” garden is designed by David Negus and sponsored by the European…
The President of Switzerland is visiting Ireland in a first official visit in more than a decade. At the same time manuscripts by Irish monks are returning from Switzerland to…
Ireland looks set to cut greenhouse emissions by just 23 percent by 2030, miles short of the 51 percent cut the state has committed to achieve, and on a worse…
The Irish government has cleared the way for the ratification of an EU trade deal struck with Canada nine years ago. Tánaiste Simon Harris said there was Cabinet approval for…