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Delaying Brexit by extending the Article 50 exit process makes sense, Mr Trojan said, but only if Westminster votes for the EU-UK divorce deal on March 12th and needs “a couple of months” to ratify the agreement. Photograph: iStock
Former EU chief questions merits of delaying Brexit without deal

The only way out of the contentious Northern Ireland backstop is for the UK to opt for a much softer Brexit, former European Commission secretary gene(...)

Some of the male participants scheduled to speak at the MacGill Summer School
MacGill Summer School: Will the gender blindness never end?

The theme of this year’s MacGill Summer School is “the future of Ireland in a new Europe. ” Women, you might be forgiven for thinking, will play a sig(...)

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe, in Belgium
Maynooth University cancels students’ visit to Leuven institute

Maynooth University has cancelled a visit by some of its students to the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe because of concerns over governance at(...)

James Byrne and James McMahon attend last weekend’s Irexit: Freedom to Prosper conference in Dublin. Photograph: Bryan Meade
Irexit: Could it be Ireland’s next big political movement?

Flames of populism may have ignited the political infernos of Donald Trump and Brexit in 2016 and sparked growing Euroscepticism across Europe, but in(...)

Sgt Valerie Cole 55th Infantry Group Irish Defence Forces. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons
Greater military co-operation under Pesco presents range of costs

Federica Mogherini, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, has worked for the last year with EU states on plans to deepen EU co-operation in secur(...)

The Home Office in London, England. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
Home Office’s lack of action on post-Brexit Border ‘is shocking’

Britain’s Home Office, the government department responsible for border control and immigration, has admitted it has not consulted any external expert(...)

Irish security services: the emergency-response unit training in October 2016. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Why Irish security forces would struggle in a terror attack

Since the Manchester Arena and London Bridge attacks, Irish intelligence experts have ruminated on Ireland’s ability both to predict and to handle suc(...)

International Atomic Energy Agency chief nuclear inspector Herman Nackaerts speaks to journalists as he arrives for a meeting about Tehran’s disputed nuclear programme
World View: Nations and their nuclear motivations

It is quite an experience to listen to an Israeli, an Iranian, an Egyptian and a Finn discuss nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament efforts in the(...)