Ireland to consider backing majority voting if it can retain commissionerIreland is willing to consider backing the significant extension of majority voting in the EU and other institutional changes…Tue Feb 15 2000 - 00:00
White Paper planned on EU powersReforming and democratising the institutions of the EU is central to the "historic and moral challenge" of enlargement, the President…Thu Feb 10 2000 - 00:00
Hats off to `conflict' art of Antrim studentsThere's no doubt Ascot has never seen anything like itWed Feb 09 2000 - 00:00
EU will invite Austria to talksThe Portuguese EU presidency has pulled back from extending the diplomatic boycott of Austria to informal EU meetings.Tue Feb 08 2000 - 00:00
EU's boycott of Austria is the start of something bigGerard Mortier, the Belgian artistic director of the Salzburg Festival, is resigningTue Feb 08 2000 - 00:00
MEPs refuse to back diplomatic isolation moveMEPs yesterday called on EU member-states and the European Commission to be ready to punish Austria if it violates Europe's principles…Fri Feb 04 2000 - 00:00
Austria faces EU threats as coalition deal agreedThe threat to Austria from its EU partners that it will face diplomatic sanctions if the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) is brought…Wed Feb 02 2000 - 00:00
Austria warned by EU states on HaiderIn an unprecedented diplomatic demarche against a fellow EU member-state, 14 EU states have told Austria that it will face a …Tue Feb 01 2000 - 00:00
Gods and mortals play at EU gamesDateline Dublin 2005: Crisis in Cyprus as Greece moves missiles to Green Line. Riots in streets. UN peacekeepers under fireTue Feb 01 2000 - 00:00
Threats by EU partners to isolate Austria unprecedentedThe threat by its EU partners to diplomatically isolate Vienna is unprecedented within the Union, and already last night diplomatic…Tue Feb 01 2000 - 00:00
EU ministers back criticism of Irish budgetary strategyEU Finance Ministers have supported criticism by the European Commission of the Irish budgetary strategy and expressed concern…Tue Feb 01 2000 - 00:00
State may face EU VAT billThe Government faces a multi-million-pound bill from the EU if the European Court of Justice confirms the opinion issued yesterday…Fri Jan 28 2000 - 00:00
EU opts to freeze relations with RussiaEU foreign ministers yesterday agreed to freeze relations with Russia over Chechnya, suspending €90 million in its TACIS aid …Tue Jan 25 2000 - 00:00
Minister denies resignation was forced on himThe Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Andrews, has denied weekend newspaper reports that either the timing or fact of his resignation…Tue Jan 25 2000 - 00:00
Andrews is assured blanket surveillance allegations are falseThe Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Andrews, yesterday said he accepted that the British were not involved in indiscriminate…Tue Jan 25 2000 - 00:00
Prodi's message on treaty reform not getting throughTomorrow the President of the European Commission, Mr Romano Prodi, will yet again raise the ante in his campaign for treaty …Tue Jan 25 2000 - 00:00
Brussels suggests tighter fiscal policy controls needed to cool Irish economyThe European Commission has warned of the inflationary dangers in the Irish economy and has suggested that a tighter fiscal policy…Wed Jan 19 2000 - 00:00
Andrews warns Russia it risks isolationThe Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Andrews, yesterday warned Russia it was in danger of isolating itself from the democratic…Sat Jan 15 2000 - 00:00
Byrne warns funds may be withheld for food breachesThe European Commission will consider whether it should have the power to withhold EU funding from member-states if they are …Thu Jan 13 2000 - 00:00
EU hopes safety body will clean up food industryA new European Food Authority (EFA), to be established within two years, is the centrepiece of a radical White Paper on Food …Wed Jan 12 2000 - 00:00
New legislation will cover whole food chainAmong the key elements in an 80-point, three-year hugely disparate legislative programme proposed in the Commission white paper…Wed Jan 12 2000 - 00:00
Ireland faces action over environment issuesThe European Commission yesterday announced legal action against Ireland on four grounds, two of which relate to the "widespread…Wed Jan 12 2000 - 00:00
Portuguese presidency faces delicate balancing actThe Portuguese presidency, we were assured, would be both realistic and ambitious in its approach to the new Inter-Governmental…Tue Jan 11 2000 - 00:00
Acceding countries want EU to extend farm supportAll six of the front rank of acceding countries want the EU to extend income support to their farmers on a par with their EU …Wed Jan 05 2000 - 00:00
EU pact with former colonies contrasts with WTO shamblesThe devil is in the final detail of trade negotiations. If, that is, you can get them off the ground.Tue Jan 04 2000 - 00:00
EU to phase out special rent and rates allowances at IFSCSpecial rates and rent tax reliefs to corporate tenants in the enlarged Dublin Customs House Docks site will be ended by December…Thu Dec 23 1999 - 00:00
Artists' right to `added value' thwarted by LondonPatrick Smyththe late Patrick Collins, like most successful Irish visual artists, never made a fortune from his work.Tue Dec 21 1999 - 00:00
EU ministers cut whitefish quotas to preserve stocksIrish fishermen face another precarious year following the EU fisheries ministers' agreement yesterday to cuts of a fifth in …Sat Dec 18 1999 - 00:00
Commission determined to hold line in fish talksThere is a new determination in the European Commission to defend dwindling fish stocks by standing firmly behind scientifically…Fri Dec 17 1999 - 00:00
Irishwoman gets top postAn Irishwoman, Ms Catherine Day (45), has been appointed deputy head of the European Commission's directorate for external relations…Wed Dec 15 1999 - 00:00
EU food authority to replace advisory groupsA new European food authority, plans for which will be announced in January by the Commissioner for Public Health and Consumers…Tue Dec 14 1999 - 00:00
More EU business billing in eurosMore than a quarter of euro zone businesses have already billed customers in euros, while in Belgium two-thirds of firms exporting…Tue Dec 14 1999 - 00:00
Treaty changes are mostly `leftovers'It may feel like the ink is barely dry on the Amsterdam Treaty, and yet we are into another round of EU treaty reform and probably…Mon Dec 13 1999 - 00:00
Finns demonstrate their efficiency as foreign policy goals are metIt was a summit all about staking a place for Europe as an actor on the world stageMon Dec 13 1999 - 00:00
Taoiseach satisfied with agreed security textThe Taoiseach, Mr Ahern, last night strongly defended the establishment of the European Union's military capabilities.Sat Dec 11 1999 - 00:00
EU warning to Russia over Chechnya attackThe EU will use financial and diplomatic sanctions against Russia if it fails to honour its international human rights obligations…Sat Dec 11 1999 - 00:00
Conflict at summit is likely over French beef decisionThe decision announced late last night by the French not to lift the ban on British beef is likely to precipitate a major confrontation…Thu Dec 09 1999 - 00:00
Compromise proposal tabled to break deadlock on withholding tax directiveA joint initiative by the Finnish EU Presidency and the European Commission to break the deadlock over the withholding tax directive…Thu Dec 09 1999 - 00:00
EU backs plan to facilitate electronic businessEU ministers yesterday gave their backing to a directive which should remove national barriers to the establishment of e-commerce…Wed Dec 08 1999 - 00:00
`WTO weaknesses' key to talks failureThe failure of last week's ministerial talks on world trade hinged on weaknesses in the World Trade Organisation system, a failure…Tue Dec 07 1999 - 00:00
Stay of execution on dual mandate desiredIreland will today fight a rearguard action to preserve a vestige of the dual mandate for MEPs against opposition from 13 member…Mon Dec 06 1999 - 00:00
EU rapid reaction force of 50,000 troops to be set upEU leaders, due to meet next week in Helsinki, will agree to develop by 2003 a multinational rapid reaction force of 50-60,000…Sat Dec 04 1999 - 00:00
Andrews insists Ireland will never join NATO as he signs PfP agreementIreland will never join NATO, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Andrews, pledged yesterday following the brief ceremony at…Thu Dec 02 1999 - 00:00
Commission reform job an offer Kinnock cannot refuseIt was never a job he wanted, and cheerily he makes no bones about itTue Nov 30 1999 - 00:00
Setback likely for docklandsNegotiations with the European Commission over the fate of rent and rates relief for businesses in Dublin's docklands are likely…Tue Nov 30 1999 - 00:00
Commission to question environment aspect of growth planThe Government will face tough questions from the European Commission during its structural fund negotiations over the environmental…Tue Nov 30 1999 - 00:00
State joins Partnership for Peace on Budget dayThe Republic will join the Partnership for Peace (PfP) programme on Wednesday, NATO sources have confirmed.Mon Nov 29 1999 - 00:00
What the Republic and EU want out of next roundThe Republic's vulnerability to international trade barriers as a small trading economy which exports four-fifths of what it …Fri Nov 26 1999 - 00:00
Growth in euro zone may improve to 3% next yearThe slowdown evident in the European economy is well and truly over, the European Commission said yesterday in its autumn economic…Thu Nov 25 1999 - 00:00
Ban on British beef could be lifted shortlyThe French ban on British beef could be fully lifted by Christmas following an understanding reached late on Tuesday night between…Thu Nov 25 1999 - 00:00
