Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has been awarded the annual European Business Press Award by the European Business Press (EBP) Association. Now in its 29th year, the award was presented to Mr Coveney by EBP President, Christian Rainer as part of the association’s 2020 General Assembly hosted digitally by the Business Post, Ireland’s EBP representative member. Mr Rainer said: “This award represents a significant recognition by Europe’s business press community of Mr Coveney’s work to date as Ireland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade. Accepting the award, Mr Coveney said he would accept the award in the spirit of cooperation with European partners. One that maintains not only the close relationship between the UK and Ireland but between the UK and all our European partners.”

Source: The Irish Times September 11, 2020 12:45 UTC