Breda O'Brien

[Breda O'Brien @bredaob]

@WomensSpaceIre @IrishTimes You’ve tagged the wrong Breda!

[EU Trade 🇪🇺 @Trade_EU]

Our commitment to @wto is here to stay.

We need to make progress on WTO reform and deliver substantive outcomes at the next ministerial.

For more updates on our work at the World Trade Organisation, follow our colleagues in Geneva 👇

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

25 years ago this week, on Good Friday 1998, a landmark Agreement was signed here in Belfast.

It wasn’t easy.

It took people being willing to come together to risk boldly for a better future.

But – rooted in compassion – it changed how an entire region sees itself.

[Valdis Dombrovskis @VDombrovskis]

CONFIRMED: next EU-U.S. Trade & Technology Council will be in Luleå, Sweden🇸🇪 May 30-31.

My focus for #TTC is growing transatlantic marketplace & trade.

We'll also discuss 🇪🇺-🇺🇸cooperation on #Ukraine, tech, economic security, resilient supply chains + other global challenges.

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

Join me at our St. Patrick’s Day Shamrock Ceremony at the White House. https://t.co/PmijUPHPDX

[Valdis Dombrovskis @VDombrovskis]

#CriticalRawMaterials are vital for EU competitiveness.

🇪🇺 needs reliable access to CRMs to drive the green/digital transitions & lead industries of the future. But we have too few resources at home & too many risks at global level.

We need to act - so what's the plan?
1/4 🧵

[Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen]

Without critical raw materials, there is no green transition and digital transition.

The Critical Raw Materials Act will improve Europe's refining, processing and recycling of raw materials.

And create a Critical Raw Materials Club with reliable partners to diversify supply.

[StefanieBolzen @StefanieBolzen]

‘I want to thank you for your leadership on the #WindsorFramework’ & to ‘protect the hard earned peace‘ & the Good Friday Agreement. ‘Many Americans feel strongly about that‘ @POTUS tells @vonderleyen in the Oval Office #Brexit

[Maroš Šefčovič🇪🇺 @MarosSefcovic]

🆕 Worth every effort!

Our joint 🇪🇺🇬🇧 solutions:
✔️ensure that the Protocol works for the benefit of everyone in Northern Ireland
✔️uphold the integrity of the EU's Single Market
✔️help us build the kind of cooperation needed in today's world - enduring, strategic, successful.

[Maroš Šefčovič🇪🇺 @MarosSefcovic]

🇪🇺🇬🇧 Appreciate the visit of Northern Ireland Secretary @chhcalling to Brussels.

We continue to engage on the outstanding issues related to the Protocol. Striving for joint solutions in the interest of all communities in NI and protective of the Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement.

[Nrken19 @nrken19]

Map showing the diaspora in America of each European country in relation to the country's population.

[Curiosity @MAstronomers]

Ireland as seen from the International Space Station.

[Yaroslava @strategywoman]

3:57 pm in #Kyiv

It’s one of the most poignant pictures I saw.

The man & his Christmas tree.

Even in war times we need some holiday mood.

[Maroš Šefčovič🇪🇺 @MarosSefcovic]

We've listened, understood, acted.

Ensuring the continuity of supplies of vet meds from Great Britain to Northern Ireland: https://t.co/l3CpTaUsHC.

This practical solution to a practical problem shows our genuine efforts to find joint solutions with the UK around the Protocol.

[Francisco Ribeiro @fraveris]

Bulgarian artist Veneta Docheva. Watercolor.

[Didier Reynders @dreynders]

Today, @EU_Commission is launching the process to adopt 🇪🇺🇺🇸 Adequacy Decision for safe data flows. We positively assessed the US legal framework provided by the Executive Order and AG Regulation as regards the protection of personal data. We can move to the next steps.

[EU Council @EUCouncil]

☑️ #DigitalEU: Council adopted 2030 #DigitalDecade programme. #TTE

🇪🇺 The EU wants to reach ambitious targets in the areas of:

👩‍💼 digital skills
🔌 secure & sustainable infrastructures
🏭 digital transformation of businesses
💻 digitalisation of public service

Find out more ⤵☑️ #DigitalEU: Council adopted 2030 #DigitalDecade programme. #TTE

🇪🇺 The EU wants to reach ambitious targets in the areas of:

👩‍💼 digital skills
🔌 secure & sustainable infrastructures
🏭 digital transformation of businesses
💻 digitalisation of public service

Find out more ⤵☑️ #DigitalEU: Council adopted 2030 #DigitalDecade programme. #TTE

🇪🇺 The EU wants to reach ambitious targets in the areas of:

👩‍💼 digital skills
🔌 secure & sustainable infrastructures
🏭 digital transformation of businesses
💻 digitalisation of public service

Find out more ⤵☑️ #DigitalEU: Council adopted 2030 #DigitalDecade programme. #TTE

🇪🇺 The EU wants to reach ambitious targets in the areas of:

👩‍💼 digital skills
🔌 secure & sustainable infrastructures
🏭 digital transformation of businesses
💻 digitalisation of public service

Find out more ⤵☑️ #DigitalEU: Council adopted 2030 #DigitalDecade programme. #TTE

🇪🇺 The EU wants to reach ambitious targets in the areas of:

👩‍💼 digital skills
🔌 secure & sustainable infrastructures
🏭 digital transformation of businesses
💻 digitalisation of public service

Find out more ⤵☑️ #DigitalEU: Council adopted 2030 #DigitalDecade programme. #TTE

🇪🇺 The EU wants to reach ambitious targets in the areas of:

👩‍💼 digital skills
🔌 secure & sustainable infrastructures
🏭 digital transformation of businesses
💻 digitalisation of public service

Find out more ⤵️

[This Day in Irish History @ThisDayIrish]

100 years ago today – 6 December 1922 – the Irish Free State was formally established.

As reported on the day: “The Irish people will make their own laws, shape their own progress, establish their own traditions of government. Their future will be what they choose to make it.”

[Valdis Dombrovskis @VDombrovskis]

We met at the 3rd Trade & Technology Council at a time of profound geopolitical change.

🇪🇺and 🇺🇸 share strategic interests.

Rather than waste energy on disputes, we should team up to develop transatlantic strategies to facilitate trade & green our economies. #TTC 🧵 👇