Jack Power

Europe Correspondent for @IrishTimes based in Brussels. Got a story/tip? Get in contact in confidence [email protected] Threema ID 9EXYWHJB

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Imported voters, fake websites: Russia's covert efforts to stop Armenia's pivot West @Reuters
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Micheál Martin said yesterday sanctioning Aughinish would hurt Europe more then it hurts Russia.

However new figures obtained by The Irish Times show that this year 83% (200,619 tonnes) of alumina exports went to Russia.

The amount exported he EU was 149 tonnes (0.6%)

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/3 This latest draft of the Government’s policy programme follows a much earlier version we got our hands on back in February: Ireland hopes to use EU presidency to repair transatlantic relations, leak shows

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Story on @IrishTimes today

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/2 Ireland wants to make ‘swift progress’ on Ukraine’s EU bid, draft of council presidency policy platforms shows
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A leaked paper seen by
@IrishTimes has details of a plan by Europe’s largest economies to centralise oversight of financial markets at EU rather than national level, a proposed shift that would cause serious concern to Ireland and Luxembourg
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Irish diplomats in Brussels were warned about ‘approaches’ from Big Tobacco - lead story in today’s @IrishTimes

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‘You have to be ready for war’: Legacy of limbo in Armenia after loss of Nagorno-Karabakh. Link to read my report from Yerevan below

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▪️ Michael McGrath has had more meetings with US tech and AI giants than Henna Virkkunen has
▪️ New documents show Meta’s top lobbyist thanked Irish commissioner for agreeing to convey concerns about EU battery-replacement rules to commission officials
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The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians
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Options being drawn up for possible EU action on Israeli settlement trade @IrishTimes
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Searching for the disappeared of Cyprus: ‘We are fighting against time’

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Trump’s hand‑picked ambassadors look less like career diplomats and more like a travelling Mar‑a‑Lago court, spoiling for a fight @IrishTimes
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News: Anthony Whelan has been appointed head of the European Commission’s competition directorate, DG Comp, one of the most important positions in the EU executive body

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I understand Ursula von der Leyen is just off the phone with the next Hungarian prime minister Peter Magyar, congratulated him on his win and the pair agreed on close cooperation. His election is likely to unblock a €90 billion EU loan for Ukraine Orban had been holding up

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From the Shannon to Siberia: How alumina from a Limerick refinery enters Russia’s weapons supply chain @IrishTimes
https://t.co/75SYQJuvL9

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Journalism prize established in memory of hit-and-run victim Joe Drennan
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“So what we need to do is be very conscious of the fact that, if you got into a prolonged conflict in the Gulf region, the inflationary impact of that could be very significant for a whole swathes of the Irish economy,” Simon Harris tells reporters in Brussels

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Incredible read
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