{"id":492315,"date":"2026-06-10T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/492315\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T11:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:00:08","slug":"ireland-will-assume-the-eu-presidency-but-what-does-that-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/492315\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland will assume the EU Presidency &#8211; but what does that mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland is three weeks away from taking over one of the European Union\u2019s most important rotating roles on July 1st \u2013 but many people are unclear on what exactly the EU Presidency involves.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Affairs Minister Helen McEntee discussed Ireland\u2019s upcoming term with EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas on Tuesday, ahead of the Government publishing its Presidency Programme this week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Get unlimited access to Gript<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland is three weeks away from taking over one of the European Union\u2019s most important rotating roles on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14258,2244,5148,1712,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-492315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ben-scallan","tag-eu","tag-european-union","tag-european-commission","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}