European Commission
The European Commission is the executive branch of the European Union. This means that it is responsible for initiating laws, enforcing the laws of the EU and managing the EU's policies. It is made up of 27 commissioners (one from each member state) and is based in Brussels.
Ireland delays request for payment from EU’s Covid recovery scheme
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Sarah Collins: UK deregulation drive could still hit EU financial ties
EU to toughen customs regime for online retailers
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Sarah Collins: Pushback against alcohol warnings is more political than legal
Microsoft cloud business probed by Europe on antitrust concerns
Proof grows that profit rather than pay drives inflation
Apple confident court will rule in its favour in €13bn tax appeal
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David Chance: EU should ignore ‘siren calls’ for blanket green technology subsidies
EU plans to blacklist Chinese firms whose exports are linked to Russia’s war in Ukraine
‘Black market’ Guinness still flowing freely in Russia despite Diageo’s war boycott
EU set to lose state-aid case ahead of Apple tax showdown
EU mulls exiting treaty that lets companies sue if states go green
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Everything you need to know about how the Department will inspect your farm using satellites
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David Chance: European fiscal policy betrays lack of vision on how to tackle debt pile
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Angus Woods: EU farmers are not competing on a level playing field – we need more support
‘We are living in fractured times. We need you’ – architects of Good Friday Agreement make plea for future
EU’s chief in Sudan is shot as evacuations are halted due to militia fighting
Michael McGrath secures State aid approval for changes to energy subsidy scheme
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Ireland weighs up income versus data law in a delicate TikTok balancing act
Hungarians encouraged to report parents of transgender children under tough new laws
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Ireland weighs up income versus data law in a delicate TikTok balancing act
Hungarians encouraged to report parents of transgender children under tough new laws
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‘Who do I call when I want to talk to Europe?’ – Henry Kissinger’s ‘quote’ illustrates EU foreign policy problems
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Xi Jinping’s Chinese economic juggernaut increasingly wields geopolitical clout
If we turn to nature for our answers, we are at least looking in the right direction
Rules for rural Airbnbs to be softened in climbdown after intervention by EU
Chinese president Xi Jinping ‘will talk to’ Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky after push from France’s Emmanuel Macron
MEP Frances Fitzgerald backs calls for greater access to register of company owners
Proposed clampdown on short-term Airbnb lets is ‘too restrictive’, says EU
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French pension protests could sink European fiscal pact as well as Emmanuel Macron
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Directors of crisis-hit consumer charity resign en masse after staff make claims of mismanagement
Taiseach Leo Varadkar says Ireland is looking at proposals on how its neutrality ‘may evolve’
Plans to free up 12,000 properties for long-term rental in disarray as new Airbnb register delayed by EU
New plans for green fuel use could push back end of the ICE age
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EU clears the way for Irish bank payouts to go ahead after financial market turmoil
League of Ireland joins in the call for European crackdown on illegal match streaming
EU seeks shift in power market to guard against further energy price spikes
Silicon Valley Bank fears hit stocks for second day as investors flee risk
Sustained growth in the EU can only be achieved with sound fiscal rules
In Russia’s firing line, Poland spends big for a military ‘revolution’
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Internal documents reveal €200m budget needed to cull 65,000 cows every year for three years to meet climate goals
‘Summer of discontent’ on the cards: Emergency services face disruption as thousands prepare to take to picket line
‘There is no other team has done this...And no one will ever do it again’ – Graham Rowntree hails Munster’s URC win
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Ellen Coyne: Maybe a sanction against their own team would make fans think twice about abusing a child
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