Tony Connelly

When EU officials travelled to Washington recently, the US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell showed them a chart showing American productivity over a 40-year period compared to European productivity.

European Union foreign ministers have not reached agreement to suspend political dialogue with Israel during a meeting in Brussels, according to the Polish foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski.

Ireland's new EU Commissioner Michael McGrath has appointed an Irish woman working within the EU institutions to head up his new team on the eve of the new Commission being approved by the European Parliament.

The European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen faces a stern test at the European Parliament in Strasbourg with MEPs voting on whether or not to accept her new team of 26 Commissioners.

Despite the turbulence surrounding Ursula von der Leyen's bid for a second term, she and the new European Commission won a clear majority in Strasbourg on Wednesday: 370 in favour, 282 against, with 36 abstentions.

The EU-Mercosur trade agreement has landed at a particularly heightened moment in European politics.

Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue has said the Government will carefully scrutinise the detail of the EU-Mercosur trade deal before concluding whether or not Ireland will support or oppose the agreement.

The European Commission has said that the decision to return Syrian refugees and asylum seekers is the preserve of individual member states, but

Tánaiste Micheál Martin is attending a meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Brussels which will be dominated by the situation in the Middle

Taoiseach Simon Harris is attending a summit of EU leaders in Brussels, which will also be attended by Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky.