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This Summit will be the fourth and final such meeting to take place while we have held the chair of the Council of the European Union. This meeting will take place over our final two working days as Presidency...

I am pleased to brief the House on the outcome of this month’s meeting of the European Council which took place in...

Taoiseach Enda Kenny will travel to the meeting of the European Council in Brussels today....

The European Council will meet in Brussels on Wednesday of this week...

I am pleased to brief the House on the outcome of the Spring meeting of the European Council which took place in Brussels on 14 and 15 March....

Taoiseach Enda Kenny will travel to the meeting of the European Council in Brussels on 14-15 March...

Last week was a momentous one for Ireland and for the European Union. When we took on the Presidency at the start of January, we said that 2013 would be a new phase in the EU’s drive for recovery. We said we would be a recovery country, driving...

Minister for Public Expenditure & Reform, Brendan Howlin TD, today (8 February 2013) welcomed the agreement reached by the European Council on the EU’s Budget for 2014-2020, which will see Ireland’s Structural Funds increase under the next funding round...

Lucinda Creighton TD, Minister for European Affairs, is in Strasbourg today representing the Council of the European Union in a key debate...

The visit today of Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council, is the first major event of the Irish Presidency in Dublin which will see approximately 180 other meetings and events there between now and the end of June.