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The EU refers Ireland to the bloc's highest court for failing to collect 13 billion euros in back taxes from tech titan Apple following a ruling a year ago. SOUNDBITE.
The nationalist pro-Irish Irish party Sinn Fein says the installing of a nationalist first minister in North Ireland, after the main pro-UK party agreed to endorse a deal with London, will be "a moment of very great significance". Speaking in Belfast, Sinn Fein president Mary Lou McDonald says it will mark "the extent of change that has occurred here in the north and indeed right across Ireland". The The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP agreement with London -- approved on January 30 in an internal vote at a closed-door meeting in Lisburn, near Belfast -- formed a basis to restore the Northern Ireland Assembly, that has been paralysed for nearly two years. SOUNDBITE
Ireland abandons its resistance to a higher tax rate for global multinationals and agrees to sign up to an international agreement to impose a 15 percent levy on the world's biggest companies. SOUNDBITE
Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin welcomes French President Emmanuel Macron in Dublin. The French president, who is counting on the future French presidency of the EU to boost his probable re-election campaign, makes his return to the European scene during this short one-day visit. IMAGES
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen greets Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin ahead of a European Union summit whose agenda includes Brexit. Ireland is the EU country to be worst-hit economically by Britain's departure, especially if no EU-UK trade deal is worked out. IMAGES
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