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Dermot Johnson of Johnson Bros food wholesaler in Lisburn. Photograph: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press ‘A sledgehammer to crack a nut’: NI traders bemoan protocol problems
  • Politics
  • May 21, 2022

As politicians bicker, businesses want to cut post-Brexit ‘Alice in Wonderland’ red tape

UK foreign secretary Liz Truss says the aim is not to scrap the protocol completely. Photograph: Marco Bertorello / AFP via Getty Brexit and the Northern Ireland protocol: What happens next?
  • Politics
  • May 21, 2022

Within Belfast, Brussels, London and Dublin, politicians get to grips with the protocol problem

Taoiseach Micheál Martin speaks to the media at the Grand Central Hotel, during his visit to Belfast Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire Taoiseach condemns UK ‘get out of jail’ plan for Troubles crimes
  • Politics
  • May 20, 2022

DUP not interested in ‘sticking plaster’ approach to NI protocol, Donaldson tells Martin in Belfast

EU officials have been preparing options on how to respond if the government of British prime minister Boris Johnson chooses to abandon talks and breach the international treaty. Photograph: JOHN THYS / AFP EU prepares retaliatory options if Britain advances protocol Bill
  • Politics
  • May 20, 2022

EU ambassadors call for range of options to be ready if UK over-rides post-Brexit deal

Russia says wounded Ukrainian soldiers have been given medical treatment while those who were fit had been taken to a penal colony. Photograph: EPA/Russian defence ministry press service Silence from Kyiv as Russia claims more than 1,700 surrender in Mariupol
  • Europe
  • May 19, 2022

No confirmation of the fate of hundreds of Ukrainian troops from Azovstal plant

European Commission executive vice-president Margrethe Vestager, high representative of the European Union for foreign affairs and security policy Josep Borrell and European Commissioner in charge of internal market Thierry Breton at a joint press conference on EU defence investment gaps, in Brussels on Wednesday. Photograph: Stephanie Lecocq Commission urges overhaul of EU defence to plug ‘critical gaps’
  • Europe
  • May 18, 2022

Foreign affairs chief urges co-ordination of defence spending to reduce fragmentation

World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab said the global food crisis, in particular, needed the attention of delegates at this year’s forum which begins at the weekend. Photograph: Jean-Christophe Bott/EPA Davos 2022 ‘the most timely and consequential’ forum ever, says WEF founder
  • Economy
  • May 18, 2022

Issues of war, epidemics and climate and global food crises need to be addressed by delegates

The European Commission has unveiled details of its €210 billion plan to wean the EU off Russian fossil fuels by 2027. Photograph: Pavlo Palamarchuk/AP Photo EU unveils plan to rapidly reduce reliance on Russian fossil fuel
  • Energy & Resources
  • May 18, 2022

Three-pronged RePowerEU plans will fast forward green transition and focus on saving energy

The UK’s foreign secretary Liz Truss has defended controversial plans to scrap parts of the Northern Ireland protocol. Photograph: Kirsty O’Connor/PA Wire Plans to scrap parts of NI protocol do not breach international law, Truss says
  • Politics
  • May 18, 2022

Coveney says with war in Europe this is not a time to create rancour between UK and EU

“We don’t want to nix it, we want to fix it and we will work with our EU partners to do it,” Boris Johnson said. Photograph: Andrew Matthews / POOL / AFP Johnson dismisses risk of EU retaliation over plans to change Northern Ireland protocol
  • UK
  • May 17, 2022

EU has ‘significant concerns’ about UK’s intention to change the protocol. Sefcovic says

Hungary’s foreign minister Peter Szijjarto: ‘It’s a rightful expectation from Hungary ... that the EU should offer a solution: to finance the investments and compensate.’ Photograph: John MacDougall/AFP via Getty EU fails to finalise embargo on Russian oil imports as Hungary vetoes proposal
  • Europe
  • May 16, 2022

Sanctions require the unanimous agreement of the 27 member states in order to pass

The FTSE 100 index ended 0.6% higher, with pharma giants such as AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline and oil majors Shell and BP among top boosts. European shares close flat on weak Chinese economic information
  • Markets
  • May 16, 2022

Building and travel stocks struggle on Iseq

EU Commission has hiked its Irish inflation forecasts as it lowered its growth outlook for EU, saying Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ‘posed new challenges’. Photograph: iStock EU hikes Irish inflation forecasts as it lowers European growth outlook
  • Economy
  • May 16, 2022

European growth would flatline this year in event of outright cut in Russian gas, EU says

Shares of Valneva plunged 20% after the French drugmaker said its Covid-19 vaccine agreement with the European Commission was being scrapped. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Valneva shares dive 20% as Covid vaccine deal with EU falls apart
  • Health & Pharma
  • May 16, 2022

Valneva relies on traditional vaccine technology used in some shots against polio and hepatitis

Taoiseach Micheál Martin at the National Famine Commemoration in Strokestown Park, Co Roscommon, on Sunday. Photograph: Andrew Downes/PA Wire Martin urges ‘real and professional’ engagement by British on NI protocol
  • Irish News
  • May 15, 2022

Taoiseach to meet Michelle O’Neill ahead of Boris Johnson bid to restore power-sharing at Stormont

Northern Ireland’s Deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill has accused the DUP of ‘punishing the public’ and ‘holding society to ransom’: ‘The DUP have failed on day one.’ Photograph: Paul Faith North’s Assembly unable to function as DUP blocks speaker
  • Politics
  • May 14, 2022

British PM and Taoiseach to try break logjam while EU angry over London protocol threat

The Spanish and Portuguese governments have approved a cap on the price of gas used for generating electricity. Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images Spain and Portugal approve gas price cap to cut energy bills
  • Energy & Resources
  • May 13, 2022

EU to grant both countries special energy status

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the “institutions set up under the Good Friday Agreement aren’t functioning. Photo by Oli Scarff - WPA Pool/Getty Images Northern Ireland protocol has become a ‘real problem’ and must be ‘fixed’ - Boris Johnson
  • Europe
  • May 12, 2022

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss says UK will have ‘no choice but to act’ if EU not flexible

Pedestrians pass an anti-Northern Ireland protocol banner on the wall of a derelict site in Sandy Row in Belfast. Photograph: Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Bloomberg What is the latest row over the Northern Ireland protocol about?
  • Politics
  • May 12, 2022

The UK has threatened to override parts of the Northern Ireland Brexit deal on trade

British prime minister Boris Johnson with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen. Photograph: Aaron Chown/AFP/Getty Northern Ireland election sets stage for more protocol brinkmanship
  • Europe
  • May 11, 2022

Europe Letter: Spoils of northern elections claimed by every facet of post-Brexit debate

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