Martin to express solidarity with Berlin attack victims
Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin is meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to discuss EU budget challenges and express solidarity following a deadly terror attack at the Berlin Pride festival. The leaders will also address European competitiveness and the ongoing climate and digital transitions.
Why it matters
The meeting highlights the diplomatic response to terrorism and the complex fiscal negotiations currently shaping European Union policy.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin will use a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz today to express Ireland's solidarity with the victims of the weekend attack on the Berlin Pride festival.
The meeting in Dublin comes during Ireland’s six-month presidency of the EU Council.
Mr Martin said the engagement would focus on "some of the biggest challenges" facing the bloc, including the ongoing wrangle between member states on the size of the EU’s long-term budget.
They will also discuss competitiveness and EU enlargement at the meeting in Farmleigh.
Germany is one of a number of nations pressing for a smaller settlement than the proposed two trillion euro spending plan.
The meeting comes days after the terror attack at the Berlin Pride festival that killed one person and injured at least 29 others.
The attacker drove a van into a crowd of people, killing one person, before he stabbed others with a machete.
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