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“If the UK-US deal is what Europe gets, then the US can expect countermeasures from our side,” Sweden's trade minister warned.

Ireland’s Health and Safety Executive has criticised a new report revealing the country’s shocking last place in Western Europe for new oncology drug access.

The limited pact leaves plenty of space for a more ambitious deal with the EU later this month.

The UK is pressing ahead with novel research to lower global temperatures, but the EU looks more likely to ban geoengineering than embrace it.

Paris will now see one of its fishers face a £40,000 fine (around €46,500) for breaching the rules.

Its latest fine against TikTok, over data transfers to China, is the third-largest ever imposed by the Irish regulator.

The ruling highlights lingering divisions at a crucial moment for EU-UK relations, with a 'reset' summit planned later this month.

Tony Blair had described Britain’s fossil fuel phase out as “doomed.”

Traditional vaccines enjoy significant trust, with 73% of Irish respondents expressing willingness to take them, compared to the global average of 68%.

At a May summit, the UK will agree a broad "strategic partnership" with Brussels that includes a veiled rebuke of Washington.

An EU-UK security and defence pact is likely to be the centrepiece of a summit next month.

The US hasn't come to London to build consensus, but “to disrupt."

The British approach is not the way for the EU, said power sector association Eurelectric.

Despite Conservative uproar over a "betrayal" of Brexit, Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer could be about to put some meat on the bone of his 'reset'.

Under the GDPR, X could be fined up to 4% of its annual global turnover.

Trump has so far refused to provide assurances that European efforts would be backed up by US security guarantees.

Both jurisdictions hope that tech companies will firm up ways to weed out illegal content, while allaying broader privacy fears.

To avoid being caught in the EU-US crossfire, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Liechtenstein are scrambling to mend ties with both.

Ireland’s pharmaceutical sector holds its breath after escaping Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs blitz. The United States’ trade strategy is ‘in no one’s interests’ says the Taoiseach.

Swedish EU Affairs Minister Jessica Rosencrantz, like other EU ministers, said she would like to see fisheries linked to an EU-UK security pact.  

Tariffs will trigger some job losses, and impact future investment, but Ireland’s strategic value remains solid - ‘Pharma isn’t ditching Ireland anytime soon.’

Both countries would dispatch a "Franco-British team to Ukraine" to meet with Ukrainian counterparts within “three weeks."

UK’s projected growth for 2025 has been revised from the 2% announced in the autumn to 1% now.

“There are other [EU] countries that push very hard on this, we will push equally hard,” the UK food minister said.