Frances Fitzgerald MEP @FitzgeraldFrncs@respublicae.eu

🇪🇺🇮🇪| My Spring 2023 update from @europarl_en

📬| Arriving in postboxes across #Dublin this week

📱| Digital version available here: https://www.francesfitzgerald.ie/post/newsletter-spring-2023

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/FitzgeraldFrncs/status/1627967642056138752

RT @EPPGroup: MEP @FitzgeraldFrncs on combating violence against women:

👉If it were any other issue, we would be here jumping up and down with outrage at this wasteful cost to our economies and the very lives of women.

👉We must eradicate this horrendous phenomenon now.

#EndVAW #EPlenary

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/FitzgeraldFrncs/status/1627286675356254213

RT @SimonHarrisTD: Excellent meeting with @FitzgeraldFrncs on the proposed EU Directive on combatting Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence. Ireland will work intensively at a European level to make progress on this. Thanks Frances to your leadership on this vital issue

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/FitzgeraldFrncs/status/1626892865275064320

Productive meeting with Min. @SimonHarrisTD at @DeptJusticeIRL to discuss the new EU Directive on combatting Violence Against Women.

Ireland is leading in this area at EU level 🇮🇪🇪🇺

Great to be back at the Dpt. and my old office where I spent over three years as Minister.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/FitzgeraldFrncs/status/1626628912154279943

RT @barrymward: I touched base with Dublin MEP @FitzgeraldFrncs today.

We talked about the importance of providing for a #Europe-wide approach to #domesticviolence and #sexual exploitation.

Rape and all #sexualcrimes must be criminalised across the #EU.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/FitzgeraldFrncs/status/1626621206723010560

RT @translation_eu: DEIS FOSTAÍOCHTA!
🇪🇺 Post mar #Aistritheoir Gaeilge i bParlaimint na hEorpa
📚 #Gaeilge agus Béarla den scoth, eolas maith ar theanga eile de chuid AE
🗓️ Cuir litir chumhdaigh i nGaeilge agus CV i mBéarla chuig dgtrad.gasecretariat@europarl.europa.eu faoin 28 Feabhra 2023.
😃

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/FitzgeraldFrncs/status/1626539339227230209

⏱️| 90 seconds

🎥| Your update from the @europarl_en

🇮🇪| Putting Dublin at the heart of Europe

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/FitzgeraldFrncs/status/1626519745498324994

RT @europarlradio: Ireland could suffer if the EU allows France/Germany to binge on subsidies for their industries in response to the US #InflationReductionAct, warns @FitzgeraldFrncs. #trade

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/FitzgeraldFrncs/status/1626510252123340800

RT @EuropeanWomen: 🎉And good news it is! 🎉

We welcome the decision of the @EUCouncil to proceed with the next steps towards the EU accession to the #IstanbulConvention!

This is a very important progress towards making the EU a safer and more equal place for all! 🇪🇺

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/FitzgeraldFrncs/status/1626268178413150210

Learning more about the alternatives that can be used in different farms across Europe and in #Dublin with @H2020IPMWorks exhibition in @europarl_en in Strasbourg.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/FitzgeraldFrncs/status/1625899979398053889

Speaking with @georgvh of @europarlradio on the EU’s response to the US Inflation Reduction Act.

We need an open, fair and global trading system - a shift to state subsidies must be met with caution.

We must keep a level playing field across Europe.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/FitzgeraldFrncs/status/1625800204367560706

Calling on the @EUCouncil to actually support the new EU Directive to combat Violence Against Women.

No more excuses.
No more legal arguments.

Surely public safety demands unanimous support across all EU institutions for this critical Directive now!

#EndVAW

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/FitzgeraldFrncs/status/1625788112503799808

RT @peterburkefg: “Ireland, Denmark & the UK were the original enlargement countries to join the EU.

The progress Ireland has made in the 50 years since we joined this Union offers hope to others who arrived more recently, or who are on the road to accession” #EU50 @dfatirl

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/FitzgeraldFrncs/status/1625759846103482369

Delighted to welcome Min. @peterburkefg to the heart of European democracy in #Strasbourg tonight.

An important event to mark 50 years of Ireland’s membership of the EU - remembering the work of all 110 Irish MEPs over the last 50 years.

🇮🇪 🤝🇪🇺

#IrelandEU50

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/FitzgeraldFrncs/status/1625569187769815053

📣| Update from Strasbourg

🇮🇪Looking forward to welcoming Min. @peterburkefg to mark Ireland #EU50

🇱🇻 An address from Latvian President @valstsgriba

🗳️Votes on EU accession of the Istanbul Convention & CO2 emissions

Check out the agenda here: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/pdfs/news/expert/2023/2/briefing/20230206BRI71903/20230206BRI71903_en.pdf

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/FitzgeraldFrncs/status/1625455952483819520

Awaiting the arrival of the Latvian President @valstsgriba who is about to address MEPs.

His address will focus on EU support for Ukraine as we approach the one year anniversary of the invasion.

Latvia is an essential EU member and a close friend of Ireland’s 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇱🇻

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/FitzgeraldFrncs/status/1625438967154851840

En route to Strasbourg this morning for this months sitting of @europarl_en

MEPs will be debating and voting on:

🇪🇺 EU response to earthquakes in Turkey & Syria
🗣️ #VAW-Istanbul Convention
🚗 CO2 emission standards for cars & vans
🇺🇦 Ukraine
🌿🏭 Green Deal industrial plan

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/FitzgeraldFrncs/status/1625071726924075009

RT @HughGillanders: Remembering an incredible person today on her birthday, #MonicaBarnes was a one off - fearless, idealist, campaigner, loyal, politician, fun and one hell of a friend who made time for people.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/FitzgeraldFrncs/status/1624811621485891586

Great news from Minister @peterburkefg about new funding for community organisations and local authorities to mark Ireland’s 50 years of EU membership. Recipients include @DCU_Brexit_Inst, Dublin South City Partnership, @EYP_Ireland, and Irish Centre for European Law #EU50

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/FitzgeraldFrncs/status/1624015867720728576

An historic day in the European Parliament.

Ireland and Dublin stands firmly with Ukraine 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦

#SlavaUkraini

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/FitzgeraldFrncs/status/1623657377709928455