Pearse Doherty has written to the Finance Minister calling for the government to add further supports to those who have lost jobs and businesses during the Covid-19 pandemic.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has gone into quarantine after being informed a doctor who administered a vaccine to her has tested positive for coronavirus.

Italy is reporting 250 new deaths related to the Covid-19 coronavirus.

Europe began a new campaign to shield economies from the coronavirus as the region’s two main central banks either delivered or signaled action to avoid a 2008-style crisis, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel promised to do “whatever is necessary”.

When Boris Johnson's government published its 30-page negotiating mandate ahead of talks next week it rejected the idea of a level playing field involving shared standards on state aid, taxation, employment rights and the environment.

It is fair to say that the actions of the gunman who shot nine people dead in the German city of Hanau were the actions of a madman.

EU leaders have begun talks on a joint 2021-2027 budget that will need to fill a €75bn hole left by Britain's departure just as they face costly climate and other challenges.

Ryanair has said that a Government “subsidy” for Flybe “cannot comply with competition and state aid laws”.

The German economy expanded 0.6% in 2019, the weakest expansion rate since 2013 and a marked cooling from the previous year, as export-dependent manufacturers in Europe’s largest economy faced increased headwinds from trade disputes and less foreign demand.

The British Prime Minister will welcome the more than 100 newly-elected colleagues, many of them from former Labour areas across the north and Midlands, to the House of Commons on Monday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy have met for the first time in a bid to end five years of war.

“Our competitors have become masters at exploiting the seams between peace and war,” the General wrote in The Sunday Telegraph.

A crackdown on crime dominated the first Queen’s Speech of Boris Johnson’s premiership.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is to travel to Liverpool on Friday for a make-or-break showdown meeting with British Prime Minster Boris Johnson.

Leo Varadkar and Boris Johnson have spoken on the phone this evening to discuss Brexit.

Tánaiste Simon Coveney has hit out at Brexit "misinformation" which has circulated in the last 24 hours.

After leaving their bilateral meeting on Monday, Mr Tusk lamented that there had been “no breakthrough” and that there is “no time to lose” with the October 31 deadline looming.

UK Chancellor Sajid Javid was in Dublin today for talks with Mr Donohoe, his first visit to Ireland.

The British Labour Party is going to block Boris Johnson's attempt to seek a general election in the UK.

As we head into September and the return of the schools after the summer holidays, many kids will now be thinking about Halloween and the prospect of trick or treating.

Here are some of the things you need to know about Boris Johnson's controversial plans.

Taxing the wealthy is becoming the latest sign of how German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s already-frail coalition is drifting apart, adding to the political turbulence as the economy teeters on the brink of recession.

The conventional wisdom among many Brexit opponents has been that the UK’s new prime minister is “doing a Varoufakis” and will be crushed in similar fashion.

Brexit has only made Europe more united behind small countries such as Ireland and member states will not bow to Boris Johnson on the backstop the Tánaiste says.

So that’s nearly Wednesday wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

The Government has introduced legal provisions, including sharing of biometric data for travel visas, in preparation for a no-deal Brexit.

Incarcerated in Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps Zuzana Ruzickova somehow survived and went on to create the complete recordings of her beloved Bach, writes James Lawless.

The leader of Germany’s surging Greens party, a likely coalition partner in any new government, raised the pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives to ditch their balanced budget goal and finance a climate protection plan with new debt.

Jeremy Corbyn must expose Boris Johnson’s Trump-deal Brexit and put forward Labour’s plan to end the interminable Brexit ordeal immediately, suggests Yanis Varoufakis.

Boris Johnson has been elected the new leader of the Conservative Party after beating out rival and British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt

If, as is expected, Boris Johnson becomes the new Prime Minister this week, he will find himself engaged in a political fire-fight almost before he has even got his feet under the desk at 10 Downing Street.

British MPs have approved an amendment which aims to strengthen measures designed to try and stop the UK's Parliament being suspended to force through a no-deal Brexit.

Most Poles do not find revelations of wrongdoing by the populists all that shocking — because of propaganda and a strong economy, writes Slawomir Sierakowski

Theresa May has formally resigned as Conservative leader, a senior Tory source said.

German politics faces a potentially murky future if it doesn’t sort out the succession of its long-sitting chancellor, writes Leonid Bershidsky.

Niki Lauda, who won two of his world titles after a horrific crash that left him with serious burns and went on to become a prominent figure in the aviation industry, left a legacy which went far beyond his Formula One achievements.

The Government has looked outside the country and named a New Zealand government official as the governor of the Central Bank.