UK White Paper on Legislating for the Withdrawal Agreement between the United Kingdom and the European Union On Tuesday, 24 July, the UK government released a White Paper on Legislating for the Withdrawal Agreement between the United Kingdom (UK) and the European Union (EU). It sets out the UK government’s plans for the withdrawal legislation…
What is the UK White Paper? On Thursday, 12 July, the UK government published a 98-page White Paper outlining its proposals for the future relationship between the United Kingdom (UK) and the European Union (EU) after the UK leaves the EU on 29 March 2019. The White Paper covers areas such as the future EU-UK economic relationship,…
On the annual Blue Star Programme teachers’ trip to Brussels, the teachers visited the European Commission, the House of European History, the European Parliament (where they met the Irish MEPs and much thanks to the European Parliament Information Office in Ireland for organising this), and the Irish Permanent Representation to the EU.
Migration, competitiveness and enlargement were on the agenda at our briefing on the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union with Minister of State for European Affairs, Helen McEntee TD, and Ambassador of Austria to Ireland, H.E. Helmut Freudenschuss. You can download a copy of the calendar at http://bit.ly/EMIATPresidencyCalendar
The United Nations defines migrants as people who choose to move to another country mainly to improve their lives by finding work, or in some cases for education, family reunion, or other reasons. Refugees, on the other hand, are defined as fleeing armed conflict or persecution and cannot return home because it is too dangerous. …
Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union On 1 July, Austria took over the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union from Bulgaria, marking the third time Austria has held the Presidency since joining the EU in 1995. In 2009, the Lisbon Treaty established a system whereby a trio of Member States consecutively…