Another day in the Brexit saga, and another round of soundbite diplomacy, with the Taoiseach warning that Irish airspace could be closed to overflying British flights if European Union fishing fleets are kept out of UK waters, to which the hardline Leavers holler blackmail.

Plans unveiled by the European Commission for a digital tax of 3% on the turnover of online giants to bring in €5bn is “bad news for Ireland, again”, a tax expert has said.

It is up to the UK to decide whether there is a good Brexit deal — or even if the country decides to leave the European Union at all, Donald Tusk has told MEPs.

It is up to the UK to decide whether there is a good Brexit deal - or even if the country decides to leave the European Union at all, Donald Tusk has told British MEPs.

The UK's Labour party will join forces with Tory rebels in an attempt to force Theresa May into giving MPs a veto on the final Brexit deal, Sir Keir Starmer has said.

The EU’s declaration on potential Irish unity has been hailed as a diplomatic coup for the Taoiseach. 

Preventing “low-cost” terrorism involving a vehicle or a knife is a key challenge for European law and order agencies, the EU security commissioner said in Dublin yesterday.

President Michael D Higgins has challenged Europe’s response to the refugee crisis, asking if it will be defined by barbed wire, tear gas, and rubber bullets.

Two men have been charged with offences related to the Brussels bombings, while three others have been detained in Brussels in connection to the Paris attacks, Belgian authorities said.

Two more men have been charged with terrorism-related offences in connection with the Brussels bombings, Belgian authorities have said.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Belgian authorities have detained a total of six people suspected of ties to the Brussels bombings, including the last known fugitive of last year's Paris attacks and a Swedish fighter linked to the French massacre.

French president Francois Hollande says private security firms have hired an additional 3,000 people for the European Championship football tournament.

Europe’s fear of IS and the US’s election uncertainty have diverted attention from Vladimir Putin’s ambitions, writes Agnia Grigas

Belgian police have arrested seven people and German authorities arrested two in separate investigations into IS suicide bombings in Brussels, while authorities in France said they thwarted a militant plot there “that was at an advanced stage”.

EU struggles to understand what drives people to join terror cells, writes Sorcha Ní Coileain

Suicide bombers who blew themselves up in Brussels were originally considering an attack on a nuclear site in Belgium, but arrests started last week may have forced them to switch to targets in the Belgian capital, the DH newspaper said.

While the bombings in Paris and Brussels are being seen as an attack on Europe as a whole, forging a collective EU response to global terrorism will be very difficult, writes Lucian Kim

The Belgian government warned at the weekend that there might be an attack after the security services captured their most wanted man. It came swiftly.

After an attack such as that seen in Belgium, what follows is rather predictable. Trump and right-wing parties will likely reap the rewards, writes Peter Apps

A Galway man has described the “surreal” evacuation of Brussels Airport yesterday morning, and said the panic caused by the explosions resulted in a stampede as people tried to escape the departure gates.

An Iraqi intelligence official says sources in the Syrian city of Raqqa have told them that the Islamic State group has been planning terrorist attacks in Europe for two months which would “target airports and train stations”.

The attacks in Brussels fit into a pattern of a concerted campaign against institutions and activities that the West regards as central to its values and ideals, writes Cormac O’Keeffe

The National Security Council are closely monitoring a small number of people in the wake of the terror attacks in Brussels.

EU officials have added last- minute changes to a pact with Turkey to halt the flow of migrants into Europe in an effort to make it legally watertight, but a standoff with Cyprus could yet scupper a deal at a summit.

David Cameron's EU renegotiation is approaching its moment of truth as he battles to win over fellow leaders and Cabinet colleagues.

Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has called on his fractious Syriza party to rally behind the government as time runs critically short to unlock funding from international lenders and avert a debt default.

Get a taste of some of the interesting and quirky happenings in Europe from our Europe correspondent, Ann Cahill.

Farmers in areas designated for hen harrier protection are hoping a new scheme will be introduced in 2015.

An attempt, led by British Prime Minister David Cameron, to block the nomination of federalist Jean-Claude Juncker as the next president of the European Commission, has failed.

A major conference on the situation of the Roma community in Europe takes place in Brussels today.

David Cameron will step up the campaign against tax evasion and “aggressive” tax avoidance as Apple joins multinational corporations in the spotlight.

A trade deal with the US could open the doors to hormone meat and genetically modified food being available in the EU, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has indicated.

Staying silent with our nuclear neighbours

Wolfgang Schäuble is Europe’s most experienced frontline political leader and little happens in the EU without his say so. His championing of the newly agreed banking union puts his reputation on the line, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

A lot of the political activity around restoring the euro’s sustainability has fallen into the one-step-forwards two-steps-backwards category.

Ireland's need to cut a deal on its €64bn bank bailout was dealt a new blow today after German chancellor Angela Merkel refused to concede on legacy debt.

SOME 40 MPs in Zimbabwe have undergone a mass circumcision — please insert your own joke here about Coalition TDs already being castrated.

The deal agreed between the 17 leaders of the eurozone in Brussels during the early hours of yesterday is welcome, even though its specifics have yet to be agreed.

THE euro could become the world’s leading currency in the next decade if leaders of the single-currency bloc succeed in tightening fiscal integration, European Central Bank policymaker Christian Noyer said in an article published yesterday in the Journal du Dimanche.

Eurozone finance ministers will hold talks on the debt crisis today aimed at fleshing out plans made at a Brussels summit this month to save the single currency.

FINANCE Minister Michael Noonan said he is targeting “full re-entry” to the bond market by mid-2013, as the country seeks to wean itself off an international bailout.

British Prime Minister David Cameron insisted today he would “make no apology for standing up for Britain” by deploying the UK’s veto to block a European Union treaty to bail out the euro last week.

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso today said that the safeguards demanded by British Prime Minister David Cameron at last week's EU summit represented “a risk to the integrity of the internal market” and were impossible for other EU states to accept.

Tensions over Europe at the heart of the British coalition government were exposed today, as Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg failed to attend the House of Commons to hear David Cameron defend his decision to veto last week’s proposed EU treaty.

Britain’s future relationship with the European Union was under intense scrutiny today in the wake of David Cameron’s dramatic decision to veto treaty changes designed to save the euro.