European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and EU commissioners are meeting Irish ministers in Cork as Ireland kicks off its six-month EU presidency term.<\/p>\n
Irish premier Miche\u00e1l Martin and members of the Irish government greeted the senior EU figures ahead of a meeting at University College Cork.<\/p>\n
Ireland\u2019s presidency of the Council of the European Union officially began on Wednesday, with a ceremony at Dublin Castle attended by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.<\/p>\n
Ms Von der Leyen and the EU commissioners landed on Thursday in Cork, Mr Martin\u2019s home city, ahead of several meetings and a press conference on Friday.<\/p>\n
Among the issues that are expected to be raised by the Irish government during those meetings is an EU-wide ban on the trade of goods and services from the occupied Palestinian territories.<\/p>\n
Ms von der Leyen was greeted by Mr Martin at Cork City Hall on Thursday afternoon, where she was presented with a vase etched with the slogan for Ireland\u2019s presidency \u2013 \u201cN\u00ed neart go cur le ch\u00e9ile \u2013 Strength with unity\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and EU commissioners are meeting Irish ministers in Cork as Ireland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-531187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531187","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=531187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}