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"Ireland stands to benefit from more than €1 billion of Structural Funds investment over the next seven years", according to Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Brendan Howlin, TD...

The Taoiseach and Tánaiste travel to Brussels today for a special high-level meeting on the EU’s Multi-Annual Financial Framework 2014-2020...

The Taoiseach and Tánaiste are to travel to Brussels on Monday 6 May for a special high-level meeting on the EU’s Multi-Annual Financial Framework 2014-2020...

Lucinda Creighton TD, Minister for European Affairs, is in Strasbourg today representing the Council of the European Union in a key debate on the EU’s long-term budget (Multi Annual Financial Framework). The Minister’s appearance comes as...

Taoiseach Enda Kenny will represent the Presidency of the Council of the European Union at a meeting in Brussels of Europe’s “Four Presidents” today to discuss the EU’s multiannual budget. Negotiations on the budget will resume at the European Council later this...

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore will tomorrow urge ministers to reach agreement on Europe’s seven-year budget, the Multiannual Financial Framework when he chairs the first General Affairs Council of Ireland’s EU Presidency. The GAC will focus on the issues to be...

The Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs & Trade, Eamon Gilmore, T.D., will tomorrow (Feb 4) urge ministers to reach agreement on Europe’s seven-year budget, the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) when he chairs the first General Affairs Council (GAC) of...

I am pleased to have this opportunity to brief the House on the outcome of last week’s European Council meeting in Brussels on 22 and 23 November. The main item for discussion at the meeting was the Union’s budget for the period...