New Tiktok service ‘could be as toxic and addictive as cigarettes’, says bloc’s digital commissioner
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Meeting of EU ministers agrees to expand sanctions focusing on Iran’s ability to export drones and missiles
Most people in Ireland ‘very concerned about climate change and solidly supportive of Government action to cut polluting emissions’
2023 weather and climate-related economic losses in Europe estimated at more than €13.4 billion
A government spokesperson said there was no interest from the UK side, adding that ‘free movement within the EU was ended’
Gaza, Iran, Israel and Ukraine clear focus of European agenda along with reform of capital markets.
‘I realised very quickly that the world was not flat and it was full of barriers to entry,’ disability campaigner Jack Kavanagh says at opening ceremony
Leaked European Council draft document on bloc’s five-year strategic agenda condemned by green groups
The European Parliament approved a major overhaul of asylum policy across the EU, which will mean sweeping changes to the current system in Ireland
European Council president says ‘significant’ number of EU countries could recognise Palestine together
Some of the changes are contentious and have been criticised by human rights advocates
MEPs vote through highly contentious reform of EU asylum policy in effort to harden bloc’s borders and discourage flow of migrants
MEPs approve 10 Bills making up new migration pact following efforts to reform policies stretching back to 2016
As the second biggest carbon emitter in the EU on a per capita basis and unlikely to meet its first legally binding five-year carbon budget, Ireland is likely to be in the dock for years to come for not doing enough
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