Jean-Claude Juncker

Ireland could supply 5 per cent of Europe’s electricity needs by exploiting offshore wind opportunities off the west coast, according to renewable energy developer Eddie O’Connor. He strongly endorsed the call by the Oireachtas climate action committee that 75,000 megawatts of offshore wind energy capacity be built. Speaking in Trinity…

The former EU commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker told a court on Wednesday (4 March) that he had not authorised illegal wiretapping that forced him in 2013 to resign from his post as Prime Minister of Luxembourg. The Luxembourg court began hearing the case on Tuesday of three former intelligence agents…

Three years ago, the Indian economy clocked a quarterly growth rate of over 9 per cent. Now, growth has slowed to nearly half that rate, printing at 4.7 per cent for the latest quarter (October-December 2019). Most estimates place growth for the current fiscal year, ending March 2020, at 5…

What would Disraeli make of Brexit? His advice to ‘read no history; nothing but biography, for that is life without theory’ is a useful starting point. Brexit has been – and continues to be – a hotch-potch of biographies where human weaknesses, strengths and foibles chafe and collide. The upcoming…

The UK made its position abundantly clear – it wants nothing to do with the European Union, its institutions, rules, bureaucracy and politicians. Thankfully – after Boris Johnson secured a seismic mandate from the electorate late last year – the UK has left the EU and needn’t worry itself anymore.…

The UK made its position abundantly clear – it wants nothing to do with the European Union, its institutions, rules, bureaucracy and politicians. Thankfully – after Boris Johnson secured a seismic mandate from the electorate late last year – the UK has left the EU and needn’t worry itself anymore.…

Lange pointed to steel and aluminum tariffs, the threat of automotive duties, the long-running Boeing-Airbus disagreement, and a dispute involving Spanish olives as four major problems standing in the way of full cooperation. He said the Europeans also feel that they have made a number of concessions since President Donald…

The ‘new enlargement methodology’ may help overcome the impasse triggered by the inability of the European Council to open accession negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania On 5 February 2020, the European Commission published a communication on the EU accession process of Western Balkan countries, called as the ‘new enlargement…

It’s not as if it wasn’t right next door the whole time. In the space of four years, the EU has gone from internal ambivalence over how much attention to pay Africa to making it a top focus for valuable political capital and diplomatic energy. The latest effort comes Thursday, as…

Hungarian authorities are prohibited from executing court-ordered compensations in jail overcrowding cases until 15 June 2020, according to a law passed by parliament yesterday (25 February). The law also compels the government to present a new regulation by 15 May based on the results of the ‘national consultation’ survey to…