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Ce jeudi à 19h, à la librairie Librebook à Bruxelles. Je ferai la première lecture publique de l'édition française de mon livre Le Continent captif. Register here: theownedcontinent.eu/events
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Of course what everyone has been waiting to see (or not). The logo for Ireland’s EU presidency. A harp would have been too on the nose presumably. The logo is due to be formally ‘unveiled’ later this week
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RT @ConorGallaghe_r: Micheál Martin said yesterday sanctioning Aughinish would hurt Europe more then it hurts Russia. However new figures…
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Story on @IrishTimes today
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/3 This latest draft of the Government’s policy programme follows a much earlier version we got our hands on back in February: Ireland hopes to use EU presidency to repair transatlantic relations, leak shows irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/…
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A leaked paper seen by @IrishTimes has details of a plan by Europe’s largest economies to centralise oversight of financial markets at EU rather than national level, a proposed shift that would cause serious concern to Ireland and Luxembourg irishtimes.com/business/econ…
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▪️ Michael McGrath has had more meetings with US tech and AI giants than Henna Virkkunen has ▪️ New documents show Meta’s top lobbyist thanked Irish commissioner for agreeing to convey concerns about EU battery-replacement rules to commission officials irishtimes.com/world/europe/…
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News: Anthony Whelan has been appointed head of the European Commission’s competition directorate, DG Comp, one of the most important positions in the EU executive body
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I understand Ursula von der Leyen is just off the phone with the next Hungarian prime minister Peter Magyar, congratulated him on his win and the pair agreed on close cooperation. His election is likely to unblock a €90 billion EU loan for Ukraine Orban had been holding up
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