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Spain and Ireland call for ’urgent review’ of EU-Israel agreement over war in Gaza
15-Feb-2024 Euronews
Prime ministers Pedro Sánchez and Leo Varadkar have asked the European Commission to "undertake an urgent review" of the EU-Israel agreement in light of the war in Gaza and the worsening humanitarian crisis.
Ireland seeking review of EU-Israel agreement over rights concerns
7-Feb-2024 Reuters
Ireland is in talks with other EU members who want a review of the EU-Israel Association Agreement on the basis that Israel may be breaching the agreement’s human rights clause.
EU-Latin America trade deal cannot be approved in current form, says Varadkar
7-Feb-2024 The Irish Times
The deal has been in negotiations for two decades, and supporters had hoped the agreement with Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay could be concluded after new environmental protections were sought.
Ireland must not be subject to anti-democratic ‘corporate courts’ exploitation
24-Oct-2023 DiEM25
There is a coordinated move for EU members to withdraw from the dangerous Energy Charter Treaty but Ireland is refusing to act.
Factbox: Britain’s new Brexit trade deal - what has been agreed?
28-Feb-2023 Reuters
Britain and the European Union announced a new deal for post-Brexit trading arrangements for Northern Ireland in a bid to end a row that has overshadowed their ties since Brexit.
Ireland must change law to ratify EU-Canada trade deal, court rules
14-Nov-2022 Reuters
Ireland’s Supreme Court ruled that parliament cannot ratify the European Union’s free trade deal with Canada unless laws are changed, posing a challenge to the coalition government if it wants to avoid the matter going to a referendum.
What would an FTA with New Zealand mean for Irish dairy?
14-Jun-2022 Irish Examiner
With the EU expected to sign a free trade deal with New Zealand this summer, anxiety is rising in the huge dairy industries in Europe over how the deal will affect them.
Britain defies EU with ’relatively trivial’ Northern Ireland law
14-Jun-2022 Reuters
Britain published plans to override some post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland by scrapping checks and challenging the role played by the European Union’s court in a new clash with Brussels.
Canada trade deal ruling could further erode Government’s majority
20-May-2022 The Irish Times
The Irish Government could come under further pressure in the autumn with a Supreme Court judgment on a legal challenge to the EU-Canada trade deal expected soon.
NI protocol the main barrier to trade deal, says US official
26-Apr-2022 Euractiv
The impasse over the status of the Northern Ireland protocol is one of the main obstacles to a US-UK trade deal, Washington’s trade representative Katherine Tai said.
The Irish Spanish Solar sues Spain in the ICSID for the cut in premiums to renewables
9-Aug-2021 Market Research Telecast
Spanish Solar demands compensation from the Spanish Government for having cut the premiums for the use of energy once the investments have been made.
Mercosur deal: Irish beef to lose at least €44 million in value
23-Jul-2021 AgriLand
The value of Ireland’s beef output would be cut by at least €44 million, according to the government’s assessment of the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement.
EU says it will not renegotiate Brexit NI deal
22-Jul-2021 RTE
Britain has demanded that the European Union agrees to rewrite a deal overseeing the post-Brexit trade involving Northern Ireland just a year after it was agreed with the bloc.
EU begins legal action against UK over Brexit violation
16-Mar-2021 Bloomberg
It follows Britain’s unilateral decision to delay implementing a key part of the Brexit deal relating to Northern Ireland.
Here’s how EU could take brexit legal action against the UK
12-Mar-2021 Bloomberg
The European Commission is preparing to take legal action against the British government in coming days over its failure to keep promises it made in the Brexit deal to keep the island of Ireland free of border checkpoints.
A Canadian view on Ceta trade deal
4-Mar-2021 The Irish Times
Ireland should do the right thing for both Irish and Canadians and reject this trade agreement.
Green party TD: Legal opinion that Ceta deal is unconstitutional
3-Mar-2021 Irish Examiner
Dublin South Central representative Patrick Costello lodged the proceedings over whether a referendum would be needed on the controversial trade deal.
Grassroots campaign launches to stop CETA ratification
12-Feb-2021 Green News
A grassroots group known as “Stop CETA Ireland” has launched a campaign to stop the Irish government from ratifying the controversial Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement between the EU and Canada.
Canada trade deal shows Government’s breathtaking arrogance
17-Dec-2020 The Irish Times
Important issues raised by CETA deserve more than a ludicrous 55-minute parliament debate.
EU launches legal action against UK for breaching Brexit deal and international law
1-Oct-2020 CNN
The backdrop to all of this is that trade talks between London and Brussels are entering their final phase.