Jack Power
Europe Correspondent at Irish Times
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5 days ago |
irishtimes.com | Jack Power
A new migration crackdown that could see some asylum seekers turned away at German borders is “legally sound”, Germany‘s new chancellor Friedrich Merz has said. The conservative German leader said such emergency measures would be possible only “for a limited period of time” and his government would support efforts to harden the European Union‘s external borders. “We don’t want to leave the securing of our external European borders only to those who have those borders,” he said.
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6 days ago |
irishtimes.com | Jack Power
The European Union has dangled a few carrots in the direction of United States president Donald Trump, but he has shown no interest in biting. So on the same day the UK will agree a trade deal with the US, the European Commission found itself turning to the stick, in the absence of any progress being made around the negotiating table.
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Jack Power
Aircraft manufacturers, chemical producers and some agricultural products are in the firing line for further tariffs the European Commission is proposing would be put on imports from the US. The European Union’s (EU) powerful executive arm leading the response to US President Donald Trump’s tariffs, is on Thursday expected to publish an extensive list of US products it would hike import duties on, if trade negotiations fail.
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Jack Power
When you walk into Ursula von der Leyen’s office, one of the first things you notice is a large picture on a wall, near a set of sofas where the European Commission president hosts guests. The picture shows the Treaty of Rome being signed in 1957, a key moment in the history of the political community that would eventually become the European Union.
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Jack Power
The European Union’s relationship with Israel should be reviewed in light of the ongoing blockade stopping food and other humanitarian aid getting into Gaza, the Dutch government has said. The move is likely to reignite debate about the EU’s response to the war in Gaza, more than a year after Ireland and Spain first called for the union’s trade agreement with Israel to be reviewed, in light of human rights abuses during Israel’s invasion of the enclave.
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