Patrick Murphy, CEO of the Irish South and West Fish Producers, says that Ireland’s fish are being given away for the benefit of Europe. #gript
One of the main advantages, we’re always told, of European Union membership, is that it affords Irish people the right to travel to and live freely in 26 other European countries. No passport checks, no immigration requirements, no papers – just hop on a plane, land in Vienna or Rome or Bucharest, and you’re as […]
At the eleventh hour, the British negotiating team pulled a rabbit from the hat in their negotiations with the European Union. A key victory long desired by Brexiteers and Eurosceptics: a concession on fisheries. The EU would agree that EU Fishing boats would give Britain back 25% of fish caught in its waters over the […]
Naturally, the announcement prior to Christmas that the Pfizer BioNTech and Moderna Covid vaccines were good to go came as a great relief to people who at last could see an end to the “new normal.” However, as Gary Kavanagh pointed out on this platform here, the initial optimism has been tempered, with many questioning […]
The crew had travelled approximately 240 nautical miles to get to the haddock-rich waters, but were forced to retreat following the intervention.
The EU blinked. There’s no point in attempting to put a gloss on it. You know the kind of thing: “This is not a time for triumphalism…” On the contrary, yes, it is. Europe should celebrate the Free Trade Agreement negotiated by Boris Johnson because it is a vindication of what democracy is about, and […]
“The promises of standing by the fishermen of our island nation was forgotten only a few days past, when news broke that Michel Barnier offered 18% of what can only be Irish fish to the UK.”
The EU’s pre- Christmas Summit, on 10/11th December, is just over a week away. Brexit looms, of course, but the make or break issue on the table is the EU’s €1.8 trillion fiscal response to impact of the Covid-19 endemic. This pivotal initiative has been in stasis for almost six months. The reason is a […]
The author, Dominik Michalik, is a Polish Citizen living in Dublin In recent days there has been a move by the European Union to tie funding for EU projects to the “rule of law”. This has been widely interpreted – including by Guy Verhofstadt – to mean denying funding to Poland and Hungary because of […]
Much is being made here of Biden being a “friend indeed to Ireland.” Actually if you examine these paeans what you generally find is that the purveyor of this means that he will be a friend to their friends, and unlike Trump, knows some mediocre poet who is also their chum. Real cosmopolitans are our […]
The EU Economic Policy Committee has confirmed that the climate finance support provided by the EU and its member states (the UK included) amounted to €23.2 billion in 2019, a 6.9% increase compared to 2018. The total without the UK stood at €21.9 billion, a 7.4% increase compared to the total for the EU […]
On Tuesday, Taoiseach Micheál Martin reported back to the Dáil from the weekend’s EU Council meeting in Brussels. The main issue of concern was the implications of the lack of an agreement between the Commission and London prior to Britain leaving the EU at the end of December. Martin echoed the Brussels line that the […]