{"id":527142,"date":"2026-07-01T06:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T06:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/527142\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T06:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T06:31:11","slug":"ireland-to-begin-presidency-of-the-european-council-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/527142\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland to begin Presidency of the European Council today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lmfm.ie\/news\/lmfm-news\/\" class=\"c-btn c-btn--small c-btn--secondary-fill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        All LMFM News<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a44a8ba0fb5c056ca4.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will also visit Ireland today to mark the start of Ireland\u2019s EU Presidency.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Ireland will take over the Presidency of the European Council this morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The rotating six month Presidency will see hundreds of meetings of European Ministers and leaders here throughout the rest of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland hasn&#8217;t held the Presidency of the European Council since 2013 and will now play host country to many EU summits through the second half of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin has set out three main policy platforms for the Presidency &#8211; competitiveness, values and security.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll host the Council President Antonio Costa in Dublin later before the official launch of the Presidency &#8211; which will take place at Dublin Castle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will also visit Ireland today to mark the start of Ireland\u2019s EU Presidency.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019ll meet with Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin and T\u00e1naiste Simon Harris, and take part in the opening ceremony being held later.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky has been invited to mark the start of the EU Presidency, to highlight Ireland\u2019s support of Ukraine and its application to join the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>Some protests are planned for the area by groups who are wary of the increasing defence co-operation in Europe and what it means for Irish neutrality.<\/p>\n<p>It comes as the European Parliament has released new survey results which report 89 per cent of Irish people believe the EU has benefitted the country &#8211; the fifth highest result in the bloc.<\/p>\n<p>While 93 per cent say the EU should be more united to meet the challenges of the 21st century.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/onic-player\/id6747436925?ppid=62f5d1bc-976b-45a1-a0cb-ee4acf856ae1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68da98f645855.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All LMFM News Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will also visit Ireland today to mark the start of Ireland\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4263,4262,61,60,3323,4259,4258,4265,4266,4264,4260,4261,43],"class_list":["post-527142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-drogheda-radio","tag-dundalk-radio","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-job-search","tag-lm-fm","tag-lmfm","tag-lmfm-breakfast-show","tag-lmfm-late-lunch","tag-lmfm-podcast","tag-louth-radio","tag-meath-radio","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527142","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=527142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}