Micheal Martin and Keir Starmer are leading talks at a major UK-Ireland summit in Liverpool.

Prime minister Keir Starmer and Taoiseach Micheál Martin will take part in the first in a series of annual UK-Ireland summits.

Micheál Martin said he was a man of peace but that Ukraine has a right to defend itself

Micheál Martin said the country would be willing to be engaged in a peacekeeping mission if a ceasefire is reached

The Taoiseach will meet with the British prime minister in Liverpool this evening for the first of a series of annual UK-Ireland summits.

The EPC is designed as a forum for political and strategic discussions about Europe’s future.

The Irish foreign minister was speaking after the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference in Dublin.

The European Union has postponed its summit for a week because EU Council President Charles Michel has gone into quarantine after a close collaborator was diagnosed with Covid-19.

The European Union’s top official says that planned cuts in the next long-term multi-billion budget of the 27-nation bloc are a “difficult pill to swallow”.

European leaders have taken a historic step towards sharing financial burdens among the EU’s 27 countries by agreeing to borrow and spend together to pull the economy out of the deep recession caused by coronavirus.

European Union leaders have finally clinched an unprecedented 1. 82 trillion euro (£1. 64 trillion) budget and coronavirus recovery fund.

A marathon European Union summit temporarily broke up in the early hours of Monday after four-days of acrimonious haggling over an unprecedented 1. 85 trillion-euro (£1. 68 trillion) EU budget and coronavirus recovery fund.

European Union leaders remained fundamentally divided for a third day on Sunday over an unprecedented 1. 85 trillion euro (£1. 68 trillion) EU budget and coronavirus recovery fund.

Marathon European Union talks to agree an unprecedented 1. 85 trillion euro (£1. 68 trillion) EU budget and coronavirus recovery fund have entered a third day.

EU leaders are meeting on Friday to discuss plans for an unprecedented 1. 85 trillion euro (£1. 6 trillion) EU budget and recovery fund.