European Union

Micheál Martin did well at the White House but Ireland could still get caught up in US-EU trade war

Harris to gather trade forum next week

US president says he would move forward with the import duties if the EU doesn’t repeal a tax on US whiskey

Paschal Donohoe confident US pharma will not walk away from long-term investment in Irish plants and people

Irish whiskey producers face severe charges on exports after Europe targeted American makers

Taoiseach avoided Oval Office mauling as Trump railed against EU foes and heaped backhanded praise on Ireland

Period of European leaders carefully tiptoeing around Trump seems to be over

Micheál Martin meets Donald Trump in White House before attending St Patrick's Day events

Martin expected to stress mutually beneficial trade relations between Ireland the United States

As long as they are front of mind they prevent a more thoughtful approach being adopted to the Irish trade surplus

New proposals for EU-wide deportation orders aim to ‘firm up’ asylum rules

Euostat figures show bloc recorded a surplus in traded goods with the US last year of close to €200bn

Geopolitical upheaval, energy security and reliance on UK for supplies are forcing a rethink on the ban on LNG

Group buying properties in Dublin 1 and 3 is providing services to high net-worth Chinese, says LinkedIn profile

In a transactional new world order, where the most powerful nations are the ones who can strike the best deals, Ireland has to decide what it stands for

The stellar Irish economic figures we are seeing are likely to be as good as it gets for now

Worldview: Outsiders can see Europe’s problems more clearly than Europeans can

Government officials are nervous about Micheál Martin’s visit to Washington but they don’t expect the Zelenskiy treatment

Ukraine scrambles French-supplied jets for first time to counter big Russian strike on infrastructure

Violence deals blow to interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa’s rule of shattered country

China and the European Union should intensify their strategic dialogue, says foreign minister Wang Yi

Ireland’s EU commissioner says Republic’s geography no ‘guarantee’ of safety

The two governments on message as joint initiatives on everything from wind energy to security abound at convivial UK-Ireland summit

Donald Trump’s presidency has also generated a new focus on questions of identity and doubt in Europe

Trump’s trade thinking may change, but EU negotiations with the US will require cool heads

Taoiseach rejects suggestion that move poses a threat to Ireland’s military neutrality policy

Right now we are stuck between the rock of American tech and a European hard place. Ireland’s best option is to promote a vision for a less bureaucratic, streamlined, European single market

The key will be to keep London’s attention as Martin, Starmer and ministers meet for talks amid geopolitical upheaval

Stringent tariffs against Canada, Mexico and China could mark beginning of global trade war

They had fooled themselves into believing what they wanted to believe

Tánaiste wants to scrap need for UN approval before Irish military can be sent abroad on peacekeeping missions

Former Dragons’ Den panellist pledges distance from Europe and more pardons if elected

Simon Harris says he is convinced of need to acquire combat jet aircraft to ‘deter and detect’ airborne threats as part of massive increase in defence spending

Europe’s economic powerhouse is faltering due to competition from China in manufacturing, an ageing population and influx of foreign nationals with limited education

The coming period will see the working out of ad-hoc compromises to provide money and means at speed, and a view that things can be finessed afterwards

Increasing violence and US aid freeze leaves indigenous communities in Honduras vulnerable

Tariffs would impose greater costs on households and businesses and would disrupt overall trade, Minister for Public Expenditure says

A central goal of Trump’s henchmen is to defang the EU’s regulatory power for the benefit of American Big Tech

Ursula von der Leyen is taking a scissors to EU’s ‘red tape’ perception

Abrhamian writes ‘people should be allowed to live where they want to live, whether it’s in their ancestral village or in a megacity halfway around the world`