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Ireland is managing a jam-packed agenda as the current holder of the rotating presidency of the EU. We caught up with the country’s Minister of State for European Affairs, Thomas Byrne, who was in Strasbourg for the 2026 State of the Union speech and debate with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. We discussed key points from that address, such as a proposed ban on social media access for children, which Ireland is keen to push forward with during its EU presidency.
On talks coming up on the 2028-2034 EU budget, Byrne says that Ireland is ideally positioned to be a broker because, while it is now a net contributor to the budget, "we were until relatively recently a net recipient of EU funds, so we’ve seen both sides of the picture." "We tend to be quite pragmatic about all of this," Byrne says. _Programme produced by Perrine Desplats, Florine Hausfater and Agnès Le Cossec._ EU facing 'second big wake-up call' on energy, Irish Minister Darragh O'Brien says Ireland’s deputy PM warns of ‘near-existential moment’ for EU amid global turmoil We’re ideally placed to chair EU budget negotiations, says Irish Minister of State Ursula von der Leyen’s sixth State of the Union speech: A grand sweep, but thin on details? I'm extremely worried by extremists that win elections in Europe: Luxembourg's PM Luc Frieden French far-right leader polling ahead for 2027 election: should the EU be afraid? France in focus## Marie-Antoinette: How France's most hated queen became its first influencer The Debate## The 28th state?
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