Letter from Brussels - May 2025
For the eighth year in a row, Finland has been named as the happiest country on earth.
Letter from Brussels - April 2025
When I began reporting on agriculture fadó, fadó, there were plenty of stories about farmers...
Letter from Brussels - March 2025
The EU Commissioner for Food and Agriculture, Christoph Hansen, has hit the ground running in his...
Letter from Brussels - February 2025
As we try to tackle climate change, all areas of society are in scope in terms of implementing...
Letter from Brussels - January 2025
Happy new year from a sleepy Brussels. After the hectic year of elections and changes in the...
Letter from Brussels - December 2024
The EU has a new Commissioner for Agriculture and Food. His name is Cristophe Hansen from...
Letter from Brussels - November 2024
There is a sense of serendipity when I think about the European Network of Agricultural...
Letter from Brussels - October 2024
As the sun shone down on the National Ploughing Championships in Ratheniska, here in Brussels all...
Letter from Brussels - September 2024
Later this month, officials from the European Commission will visit Ireland to check up on...
Letter from Brussels
Brussels goes quiet in August.
Letter from Brussels - July 2024
In the run up to the recent European Parliament elections, I listened to many of the TV and radio...
Letter from Brussels - June 2024
After the votes are counted and 720 MEPs (including 14 from Ireland) are elected to the tenth...
Letter from Brussels - May 2024
Back in 2019, the EU Commission launched its Green Deal strategy to make Europe the first...
Letters from Brussells - April 2024
Amidst the wave of farmer protests spread right across Europe, 60 farm and co-operative leaders...
Letter from Brussels - March 2024
In her State of the Union Address in Autumn 2023, EU Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen...
Letter from Brussels - February 2024
The sight of thousands of German tractors lined up at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in January...
Letter from Brussels - January 2024
Happy new year from Brussels. I joke that there are only two seasons here, winter and summer.
Letter from Brussels - December 2023
As I stop to catch breath after the fastest year of my life in new surroundings, I am happy to...
Letter from Brussels - November 2023
It is over 30 years since the Maastricht Treaty was implemented. Central to it was the...
Letter from Brussels - October 2023
Brussels has the second-highest number of lobbyists in the world behind Washington DC.