Published on 06/10/2026 – 15:28 GMT+2•Updated 15:40 The European Parliament called on Tuesday for stronger EU action to tackle burnout, stress and other work-related conditions, addressing an increasingly common problem among European workers as digitalisation and AI reshape the workplace. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT MEPs want new rules to recognise that psychosocial risks, including harassment, excessive workloads […]
Continue ReadingBudget 2027 is being announced on Tuesday and we are now in the “banging fists on the tables” phase – metaphorically at least – in talks between Ministers as they seek to carve out their share of the €7 billion kitty for new spending measures. As Pat Leahy and Jack Horgan-Jones report in our lead […]
Continue ReadingSir, – Sinéad O’Sullivan’s article on Europe’s changing future raises an important question for Ireland: how do we avoid becoming more peripheral in an expanding European Union (“Europe is entering a new phase. Ireland may lose out”, Opinion, September 16th)? One possibility is that we are looking at the map the wrong way. If Canada […]
Continue ReadingBrussels is finalising steps to impose swingeing restrictions on teenage access to social media, amid growing anxiety that Big Tech platforms cannot be trusted to protect children from harmful content. Long-awaited measures to be unveiled next week by European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen aim to prevent children under 15 using “risky” app functions […]
Continue ReadingThe European Union faces a generational deadline next week for age-based restrictions on social media platforms, the Minister for Communications has said. Patrick O’Donovan warned that future generations could ask why the EU failed to intervene against social media companies – which make billions of euro in profit each year – to stop children and […]
Continue ReadingClocks are set to go back a day earlier this year as the winter months come in. Daylight saving time ended on October 26th last year, but this year clocks will turn back by one hour at 2am on Sunday, October 25th. Clocks go back at 2am on the last Sunday in October in the […]
Continue ReadingEuropean Commission president Ursula von der Leyen is expected to unveil on Monday a boost in EU investments in Greenland and closer political ties with the Danish Arctic territory, which Donald Trump has insisted should belong to the United States. Von der Leyen arrived in Greenland on Sunday for a two-day visit serving as a […]
Continue ReadingPeople seeking Irish citizenship would have to be resident in the country for eight years, an increase on the current five, as well as undertake language testing and be required to be economically self-sufficient under a proposed overhaul of Ireland’s naturalisation system expected to go to Cabinet this week. Ministers for justice would also have […]
Continue ReadingSir, – Peadar Tóibín, with his headline alone, won the debate with Neil Bruton on whether new citizens should be subject to a language test (“Should new citizens have to pass a language test?”, Opinion, September 1st). The very fact that Ireland is the only country in the EU that doesn’t apply some test speaks […]
Continue ReadingThe European Union has a chance to make real yards on the next expansion of the bloc for the first time in years. Miss the opportunity and it might not come around again for a long time. A bumper year of elections in 2027 across four of Europe’s biggest powers, however, could see that window […]
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