EU yet to confirm if it will accept outcome.
Hungary, as every bien pensant knows, is beyond the Pale these days, mostly due to the decision by the Hungarian government not to facilitate the promotion of transgenderism in state schools. Of course, that is only the latest of the offences, as perceived by the establishment, to have been committed by Viktor Orban, Chief of […]
EU could halt pandemic recovery payments.
Simon Coveney, last week: RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel Al-Jubeir on Wednesday held a meeting at the ministry’s headquarters in Riyadh with the Irish Foreign and Defense Minister Simon Coveney. The two sides discussed during the meeting bilateral relations and means to develop them and exchanged views on regional and […]
Tension.
“Do not provoke the host.”
“Our players wanted to do it. It’s important.”
The Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Péter Skjiilstra, visits Dublin today for discussions with his counterpart Simon Coveney, and with Tánaiste, Leo Varadker. The visit is part of the lead into to Hungary’s Presidency of the European Council, which begins at the end of the month. It comes at a time of epochal […]
I had recently noticed an ad on social media for a local market, and so last weekend we popped down to a lot in Glasnevin to get out of the house and have a poke around. Products and wares included baked and preserved goods, candles, soaps, and fishing tackle. The accents and features behind the […]
Hungary’s Justice Minister Judit Varga announced that “systematic abuses” of freedom of expression by tech giants should be addressed by the current government.
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 […]