Macron’s economic remodelling of Europe is... partly a threat to our national interest

EU ambassadors have agreed British citizens should be able to go on holiday to Europe without a visa after the UK leaves the European Union.

Kosovo's opposition has used tear gas to disrupt a parliament vote on a border demarcation deal with Montenegro.

During his third State of the Union address to the European Parliament earlier this month, European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker sketched his vision of how Europe might evolve. 

The process of filling in a landing card before arriving in the UK will be scrapped for more than 16 million non-EU travellers under plans announced by the Home Office.

Most people should have an extra €5 in their pockets every week after a budget tempered by Brexit fears.

A new European border and coast guard force has been officially launched at a checkpoint on the bloc's external border with Turkey in Bulgaria.

Under the pressure of the migrant crisis countries across Europe have closed their borders, while xenophobic parties thrive. TP O’Mahony reflects on a new book which captures the unravelling of the EU’s liberal dream. 

Greece looks set to start sending migrants back to Turkey from the beginning of next week after a proposed "one in, one out" scheme apparently won the approval of EU leaders 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.

It’s not only European Central Bank stimulus that has the potential to hurt the euro.

Seven bodies, including those of two children, were recovered from the sea off the eastern Aegean island of Kos yesterday after a boat carrying migrants sank, Greek authorities said.

Ireland should get alerts about potential terrorists and suspect passports identified by other EU countries once the country is linked up to the Schengen Information System, according to Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald.

A European border and coast guard agency that could also help in patrolling the seas around Ireland, has been put forward by the European Commission.

A threat to throw Greece out of the border-free Schengen area of the EU was diverted at the last minute when Athens agreed to request help to manage refugees at their borders.

Ireland’s EU commissioner, the former Fine Gael minister Phil Hogan, has said that our agriculture sector would “play its part” in the country meeting its climate-change targets.

The Government is to spend €4m on a system that will allow gardaí link to an EU-wide database for missing persons and property — but will not give access to alerts about suspected terrorists or fake passports.

European Union leaders eager for Turkey’s help in the refugee crisis cautioned against promising too much to their often reluctant partner at a summit in Brussels yesterday, even as Turkey’s prime minister declared the beginning of a new era for relations between the two sides.

France says it will not wait for a change in EU rules to subject every European citizen to deep checks when they enter the Schengen travel-free zone.

The European Union has agreed to "considerably strengthen" means for the 28 nations to co-operate to combat violent extremism, officials said.

Ireland supports giving Turkish citizens visa-free entry to the EU and €3bn funding in exchange for Turkey preventing refugees and migrants crossing into the EU, Taoiseach Enda Kenny said at a summit of EU leaders.

Ireland is considering contributing personnel to help cope with the mammoth task of sorting and relocating asylum-seekers from camps in Greece and Italy to other member states.

Croatia’s prime minister has dismissed Hungary’s plan to build a fence between the two countries, arguing that nothing would be able to stop those seeking sanctuary in richer European countries.

European states to share 54,000 refugees after divisive deal reached

Hungary’s parliament yesterday authorised the government to deploy the army to help handle a refugee crisis, granting the military the right to deploy a range of non-lethal force.

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

Echoes of the Cold War as EU fails to agree redistribution plan.

Europe has failed to agree how to share the burden of refugees daily entering the EU, as five countries either shut their borders or introduced border controls, leaving thousands of migrants in limbo and increasing pressure on other countries.

Germany pulled down the shutters on its borders, temporarily exiting the Schengen system and triggering a crisis as diplomats from all the EU countries struggled to reach agreement on the refugee problem in Brussels last night.

“We can build walls, we can build fences. But imagine for a second it were you, your child in your arms, the world you knew torn apart around you. There is no price you would not pay, there is no wall you would not climb, no sea you would not sail, no border you would not cross if it is war or the barbarism of the so-called Islamic State that you are fleeing”.

The unfolding refugee crisis is become the biggest humanitarian tragedy in Europe since the Yugoslav wars.

Thousands of refugees yesterday streamed into Germany — many travelling through Austria from Hungary where they had been stranded against their will for days — while EU governments argue over how to respond.

Hundreds of refugees broke out of a Hungarian border camp and others set off on foot from Budapest as authorities scrambled to contain a crisis that has brought Europe’s asylum system to breaking point.