After opening a Penneys, Enda Kenny spoke to his 'good friend' Angela Merkel about bank debt
The Taoiseach also spoke at an economic conference on his whistle-stop tour of Berlin today.
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The Taoiseach also spoke at an economic conference on his whistle-stop tour of Berlin today.
The Taoiseach said he expects Jean-Claude Juncker to become the next president of the European Commission, but David Cameron is trying to block this from happening.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel poses with Lukas Podolski after Germany victory.
Plus: What percentage of Labour TDs are running for deputy leader of the party?
She’s no good in a quiz situation.
But she is happy today with her own party wins.
Because it’s about more than just saying cheese.
Uli Hoeness stashed away the money in a secret Swiss bank account during years of obsessive stock “gambling”.
Meanwhile, delegates at the European People’s Party congress have selected former Eurogroup chief Jean-Claude Juncker as their nominee for the European Commission presidency.
The Phil got a unique insight into the German chancellor at an event today. Here’s what we found out…
Having spent the morning at the EPP Congress, Merkel met with the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste at Government Buildings this afternoon.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny is also due to address the event, which takes place as the European People’s Party congress is underway in the capital.
The two-day European People’s Party congress gets under way at the Convention Centre in Dublin later today.
… US spy agencies would continue to “gather information about the intentions of governments”.
If Enda Kenny seeks the position of either President of the European Council or head of the European Commission, he could achieve great things for Ireland and Europe, writes David Moloney.
The US President called the Chancellor to wish her a speedy recovery after she broke her pelvis while skiing, and invited her to visit at a “mutually agreeable time”.
The German Chancellor has had to cancel all appointments scheduled for this week as it is understood she will be bed-bound for some time.
Merkel becomes only Germany’s third post-war chancellor to win a third mandate and is now “at the peak of her power” writes a German online news magazine.
Angela Merkel has made concessions on gender quotas, the minimum wage and a toll on the Autobahn for foreigners, but she has a government.
One of those surveyed answered sincerely that they believed Angela Merkel was their MEP.
Michael Noonan’s stressing it’s a ‘bilateral’ agreement and “not a European strategy”.
Der Spiegel claims that the German Chancellor’s mobile is one of many on the NSA’s tracking list.
Taoiseach Kenny wrote a letter to 26 EU heads about their 2012 “commitment” to give Ireland special treatment – but they don’t care for wimpish reminders.
Who knew you could tap a battered old Nokia…
Good morning. Here are the nine stories you need to know this morning.
It is likely to be the pair’s first meeting since the former junior minister was expelled from the Fine Gael parliamentary party in July.
President Obama denied the claim according to a US spokesperson.
Earlier the Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore said that the result of the German election was never going to impact on Ireland’s push for retrospective recapitalisation of its banks.
The Jobs Minister was speaking after the German chancellor’s election win yesterday.
“The Merkel Republic,” ran the headline for a commentary on news site Spiegel Online as the German chancellor saw off the challenge of the Social Democrats but did not win an outright majority.
Spoiler: Because the outcome is so unpredictable, that’s why.
Maternal to many Germans, symbol of austerity to others, the former pastor’s daughter has come far from an East German childhood to Chancellor.
Germany is the EU’s largest economy yet it has no national minimum wage; and its policy of maintaining low wages and subsidising exports into EU member States is destabilising to the EU economy, writes Tiernan Brady.
The intruder was high on drugs, danced on the wing of the jet, sprayed foam around the plush interior and released an inflatable slide.
A man entered the town hall in Ingolstadt and took four people hostage releasing them gradually in a tense nine-hour stand off before police confronted the 24-year-old whose only demand had been a doner kebab.
Youth unemployment is top of the agenda at a round table summit in the German capital today.