Zelenskiy in Brussels for talks with EU leaders about latest fracture in relationship with Trump

As member states clash over defence spending and farm payments, Ireland is playing the role of neutral EU presidency dealmaker

Taoiseach Micheál Martin says landing final EU budget deal will be ‘challenging task’

Critics say the perception of a revolving door between politics and lobbying undermines public trust in those who hold power

Beijing’s concessions to cap hybrid exports have taken the heat out of EU leaders push to get tough on China

Taoiseach hopes ‘behind the scenes work’ leads to negotiations to avoid further public sector strikes

Advertising Standards Authority agrees ‘Moroccan adventure’ advert likely to be misleading

Price-gouging checks at petrol stations and electric vehicle grants for French taxi drivers among Continent’s responses to global energy shock

EU leaders are confronted with the limits of their own support for Ukraine as Washington pressures Kyiv

Political agreement had long proved elusive when it came to reforms of the EU’s capital markets

Irish diplomats privately remarked that if everyone ended up unhappy, they had done their job

Compromise package follows months of behind-the-scenes negotiations

No desire in Government to ‘rerun’ drama over RTÉ governance, Simon Harris says

Republic’s revision to €1.7tn EU common pot intended to narrow gap between opposing camps

Deal shifting more financial oversight to European regulator ‘biggest move in decades’, Simon Harris says