Elizabeth Bourne will visit Ireland this Monday to discuss European issues seven months before the election.

She will be able to forget for a few hours about her failures in parliament, where she is deprived of an absolute majority. Prime Minister Elizabeth Bourne is heading to Dublin this Monday to discuss international affairs and important European negotiations with her Irish counterpart Leo Varadkar, seven months before European Parliament elections.

They should discuss the main issues of the European Union, be it EU enlargement, the multiannual financial framework (which plans the EU’s spending) or even “major legislation that France wants to see progress” such as European Union reform. the electricity market, and relations with the UK since its exit from the EU. These issues have an “extremely strong influence on the French subjects” and Elisabeth Bourne has been “following them very closely” since her arrival at Matignon, emphasizing her merits.

Elisabeth Bourne recently suggested that her Renaissance Party should mobilize “right now” for the European elections, facing the National Rally being presented as the favorites in these elections. But Emmanuel Macron’s party has not yet chosen its list leader.

Israeli response ‘close to vengeance’, Irish judges

After Algeria, Portugal and Germany in 2022, this is the head of government’s first foreign trip this year. During her tenure, Elizabeth Bourne used the controversial constitutional instrument, Article 49.3, about fifteen times to enact certain texts. This Monday the government must initiate a new one, but without it.

Conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East will also be on the agenda. The Irish prime minister, attending a humanitarian conference on the Gaza Strip in Paris in early November, concluded that Israel’s military response to the Hamas attacks on October 7 amounted to “something close to revenge.”

The two heads of government will also present a conference marking the 225th anniversary of the “Year of the French,” who in 1798 participated in a short-lived Irish rebellion inspired by the French Republic. This will be an opportunity to remember their shared Republican values.

Four ministers are also on the trip.

Elisabeth Borne will be accompanied by four ministers: Agnès Pannier-Runacher (energy transition), Sylvie Retaillot (higher education and research), Jean-Noël Barrault (digital technologies) and Laurence Boone (Europe).

The trip will also enable the completion of the Celtic Interconnector, a high-voltage electrical interconnection project designed to connect the Irish grid to the European continent by 2027. This undersea connection, which will connect the Cork region with the Brest region, will be “accepted”. in the context of the United Kingdom’s exit from the EU, while Ireland is currently only connected with its British neighbor.

Elizabeth Bourne will also hold talks with Irish entrepreneurs to mark the tenth anniversary of French Tech and then meet with the French community in Ireland.