Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a letter to EU leaders that a German proposal to grant Ukraine “associate” membership of the European Union was “unfair” because it would leave Kyiv without a voice inside the bloc. German chancellor Friedrich Merz suggested earlier this week allowing Ukraine to participate in EU meetings and institutions without […]
Continue ReadingEuropean Union leaders are coming around to the idea of talking directly to Russia. But they have yet to decide on who should represent them and what they should be talking about. Who should speak for Europe? When EU foreign ministers meet in the Cypriot port city of Limassol next week, one issue they will […]
Continue ReadingWes Streeting, who resigned as Britain’s health secretary last week and has said he will run in any contest to replace Keir Starmer as the Labour leader and prime minister, has described Brexit as a “catastrophic mistake” and said the UK should rejoin the EU. Andy Burnham, the Labour mayor of Greater Manchester, who will […]
Continue ReadingThe water’s fine, the surroundings are clean, access is easy and the signs make sense – if that’s your local beach then chances are it got a blue flag to prove it. The annual Blue Flag awards were announced on Friday and the beaches that can tick all the important boxes now get to fly […]
Continue ReadingKeir Starmer’s job as UK prime minister appeared to be slipping away from him on Monday night as 70 of his own Labour MPs called on him to step down or set out a timeline for departure. Starmer, under pressure over his party’s dire performance in elections last week, had hoped to shore up his […]
Continue ReadingIreland might find itself presiding over the formal establishment of the much-discussed digital euro when it assumes the presidency of the council of the European Union later this year. And while consumers won’t be able to actually use the virtual currency until the end of the decade at the earliest, the latest shake-up in how […]
Continue ReadingSooner or later, everything crosses the Atlantic to wash up on Ireland’s shore. Generations of us have scavenged among the flotsam for blue jeans and bluegrass, hamburgers and Black Friday, the Kardashians, Mickey Mouse and Lisa Simpson’s accent. But the tide has turned across the water and now here comes the jetsam. If you want […]
Continue ReadingSir, – Jennifer Murphy (Letters, May 5th) correctly and helpfully draws attention to some of the adverse consequences – the sequelae – of onset of shingles. As we age into our seventh and eighth decades of life we develop immune senescence, the age-related weakening of our immune system. Shingles can become a much more severe […]
Continue ReadingOne of the largest waste collection companies in Ireland, Panda, has unilaterally announced a fuel surcharge of 97 cents starting this month. It does not sound like much, but when you include VAT and multiply it by the firm’s 350,000 customers, it comes to €385,000 a month or more than €4.6 million a year. That’s […]
Continue ReadingThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has called for anyone abused by Jonathan Creswell to come forward after a review found a failure to properly investigate the murder of Katie Simpson. The body representing the tech industry is asking the Government to push for an exemption to smart watches from new EU rules requiring […]
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