{"id":83705,"date":"2026-07-01T11:38:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T11:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/83705\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:38:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T11:38:20","slug":"ireland-takes-presidency-of-european-council-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/83705\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland Takes Presidency Of European Council Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Wednesday, 1 July 2026 10:23\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/670945c1de167.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            It is a rotating six month term.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Ireland takes over the Presidency of the European Council this morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The rotating six month term will see hundreds of meetings of European Ministers and leaders here throughout the rest 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>Midlands MEP Ciaran Mullooly says the government has a big opportunity to secure support for people across a broad range of sectors:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>The Irish Farmers Association says\u00a0the success of the Irish presidency for farmers and rural Ireland will require a substantial increase in the Common Agricultural Policy budget.<\/p>\n<p>Laois&#8217; Francie Gorman, President of the IFA says:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Commission proposal from this time last year remains entirely inadequate for the needs of the sector, and the decision to cut the budget by 24% doesn&#8217;t recognise the pivotal work farmers do daily for food security, the environment and for rural areas more broadly.<\/p>\n<p>IFA\u2019s National Council returned from Brussels last week where we met with representatives from all European institutions including Irish MEPs and Commissioners\u00a0Michael McGrath and Oliver Varhelyi. Our message was simple &#8211; the budget proposal on the table for CAP remains too low for the requirements of the sector<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 1 July 2026 10:23 It is a rotating six month term. Ireland takes over the Presidency of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[42182,42181,257,42183,44713,475,42180,44711,44712,49,44714,1593,44715],"class_list":["post-83705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-european-council","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-european-council","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-westmeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}