The EU's top court has considered its first ever case in the Irish language. It's about labels on dog medicine
It’s the first time a case at the Luxembourg-based Court of Justice has been conducted through Irish.
It’s the first time a case at the Luxembourg-based Court of Justice has been conducted through Irish.
One driver asked if a border guard could “take off the meat and you leave me the bread”.
Former cabinet minister Lord Blunkett made the prediction as peers debated the agreement between the UK and EU.
The UK’s departure from the European Union takes full effect at 11pm.
They concluded that the agreement ‘preserves the UK’s sovereignty as a matter of law’.
The EU and the UK published full 1,246-page text of the treaty yesterday.
The 1,246-page document waspublished this morning.
Several countries have reported cases of the new strain.
From what has been published so far, the UK conceded on both fisheries and the level playing field, while the EU conceded on governance.
It had been reported that the negotiating teams were pushing to get a deal over the line before Christmas.
Another weekend of tense negotiations failed to achieve a breakthrough.
Michel Barnier and Lord Frost met in Brussels yesterday.
Fishing is now the main obstacle to securing a pact by 1 January.
Michel Barnier said earlier: “There is a chance of getting an agreement but the path to such an agreement is very narrow.”
Party membership has been told that ratifying the controversial EU-Canada trade deal is “politically important” with Brexit looming.
Tougher measures are being implemented across the continent.
The European Commission president addressed the European Parliament this morning.
The legal date for the UK to leave the Customs Union and Single Market is 31 December.
Leaders also came to a compromise yesterday to clear the way for a €1.8 trillion Covid-19 recovery package.
The three women from Dublin, Cork and Meath had sought damages from the State.
November 2020 was 0.1 degrees Celsius hotter than the previous record.
The head of the UK regulator who approved the Pfizer vaccine said its progress was “totally dependent” on the “rolling review” approach it took.
Cabinet has agreed that Ireland should apply for observer status at the Arctic Council.
Simon Coveney met European leaders in Paris today.
The UK formally approved the vaccine yesterday.
Michel Barnier has briefed EU ambassadors on the negotiations amid little signs of progress as time runs out.
More than half of people also expect to take their next international flight before the end of 2021, according to new figures.
Although the focus has mostly been on State aid and the level-playing field, that is shifting to fisheries in the past few weeks.
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It’s hoped the plan will help jump start the aviation sector in a safe way.
Government aims to have travel traffic light system up and running by 8 November.
The WHO has said that Europe is again an “epicentre” for the disease.
There is concern across the continent.
The move is seen as a victory for environmentalists.
The key issues of contention remain fishing rights, the governance of any deal and the “level playing field” aimed at preventing unfair competition.
Spain is only the sixth country to pass this grim milestone.
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