Jack Power
Europe Correspondent at Irish Times
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Jack Power
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen is not short of advice about how to handle Donald Trump. Bernard Arnault, founder and chief executive of French luxury brand giant LVMH, which owns Louis Vuitton, Moët Hennessy and Dior, privately chipped in with his opinion in recent days.
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Jack Power
Summits of the EU‘s 27 national leaders take place every few months and usually kick off on a Thursday. When Leo Varadkar was attending as taoiseach he was always happier when they started earlier in the week. “It was great on the rare occasion that you had to be away on a Tuesday or Wednesday, because then you got to avoid Leaders’ Questions [in the Dáil],” the former Fine Gael leader tells me.
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Jack Power
Online regulators at the European Commission have opened an investigation into Pornhub and three other pornography sites, over suspected lax efforts to prevent children accessing their explicit content. The EU’s executive arm announced it had opened formal inquiries into Pornhub, XNXX, Stripchat, and XVideos, for possible breaches of the union’s strict regulations of large online platforms.
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2 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Jack Power
The killing initially looked like a burglary gone wrong. Carmel Delaney, an Irish-American woman in her early 60s, had been stabbed to death in her home, in a wealthy Brussels neighbourhood popular with diplomats and business executives. The suspected murder – and the details that would later emerge – have gripped the Belgian public for weeks.
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2 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Jack Power
Ireland has pivoted to oppose contentious European Union reforms aimed at broadening access to new drugs and medicines, following a blitz of lobbying from big pharmaceutical companies over recent months. The proposed reforms would cut back a current eight-year window pharma companies have to exclusively sell new drugs they produce, before cheaper generic competitors enter the market.
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