Belgian workers wonder what brave new world of `Social Europe' is all aboutPERHAPS Renault thought that the population here in Belgium was so inured to bad news that it could slip through 3,100 redundancies…Fri Mar 07 1997 - 00:00
Envoy says Berisha may hold electionsTHE Dutch Foreign Minister, who is on a European Union mission to help end the bloody crisis in Albania, said yesterday the Albanian…Fri Mar 07 1997 - 00:00
Commission wants farm price freezeTHE European Commission yesterday adopted its farm price package for 1997-`98, providing for a price freeze across the board.Thu Mar 06 1997 - 00:00
EU to recoup Mullaghmore funding despite rulingTHE European Commission is to claw back its funding for the controversial visitor centre planned for Mullaghmore in Co Clare - …Thu Mar 06 1997 - 00:00
EU funding for peace fund urgedTHE Taoiseach, Mr Bruton, yesterday admitted that obtaining renewal of EU funding for the Northern Ireland Pence Fund in, 1998…Wed Mar 05 1997 - 00:00
Decision to cut greenhouse gas emissions means EU leads fight against global warmingEU Environment Ministers yesterday agreed to support a call for 15 per cent cuts in greenhouse $as emissions by developing countries…Tue Mar 04 1997 - 00:00
EU funding likely to dominate talks between Bruton and CommissionEU funding for Ireland, the BSE crisis, and the transfer of the EU's veterinary inspectorate to Co Meath are likely to dominate…Tue Mar 04 1997 - 00:00
Steady the Buffs and ignore EuroscepticsSTEADY the Buffs! We are going through, it appears, one of those periodic crises of nerves in which ne'er a day passes without…Fri Feb 28 1997 - 00:00
Sellafield site report deemed inadequateTHE European Parliament's Petitions Committee yesterday referred back as inadequate to the European Commission its report on …Thu Feb 27 1997 - 00:00
Irish top backers of EUIRISH citizens, it appears, would agree wholeheartedly with the maxim of the late President Mitterrand of France, who is supposed…Wed Feb 26 1997 - 00:00
MEPs to send delegation to visit McAliskeyTHE Civil Liberties Committee of the European Parliament yesterday agreed to send a delegation to visit Ms Roisin McAliskey in…Wed Feb 26 1997 - 00:00
New proposals on EU passport free travel allay Irish fearsIRISH fears of being excluded from talks designed to remove internal European Union border controls were allayed yesterday after…Tue Feb 25 1997 - 00:00
US may back EU censure of China at rights meetingTHE EU now appears certain to put down a resolution condemning China's human rights record at next month's UN Commission of Human…Tue Feb 25 1997 - 00:00
Santer pays warm tribute to Deng's economic reformsSTRESSING the "irreversibility" of China's reform process, the President of the European Commission, Mr Jacques Santer, yesterday…Fri Feb 21 1997 - 00:00
Albright on the Western Front as the new US Secretary of State gets to know the EUA RESOLVE to put flesh on the transatlantic agenda emerged from yesterday's get-to-know-you meeting between the US Secretary …Wed Feb 19 1997 - 00:00
Socialist agony as scandal creeps closer to leaderFIRST Agusta, now the Dassault bribery allegations. An unsolved murder. Talk of Mafia connectionsMon Feb 17 1997 - 00:00
Future of the special EU aid package for NI in doubtTHE future of the EU's multi million pound special peace initiative for Northern Ireland may be in jeopardy, according to sources…Mon Feb 17 1997 - 00:00
EU study shows wide car price differentialsFANCY a new car? Well, if you do, according to a new EU survey, it may well be worth shopping around in other member states for…Mon Feb 17 1997 - 00:00
Fascism alive and kicking in the south of FranceTHOSE cynics who asked why the EU needed to designate this year as European Year against Racism and Xenophobia got their answer…Fri Feb 14 1997 - 00:00
MEPs' censure of Commission avoidedA COMMITTEE of MEPs investigating the handling of the BSE crisis yesterday refrained from urging censure of the Commission unless…Fri Feb 07 1997 - 00:00
Lobbying efforts turn around good ship Europe on biotechnology patent lawAT TIMES, it appears, the European Parliament behaves like a giant battleship whose momentum through the sea takes five or 10…Fri Feb 07 1997 - 00:00
Europe to protect major sporting eventsTHE European Commission is proposing new broadcasting regulations to ensure that sports fans will be able to see major events…Thu Feb 06 1997 - 00:00
Europe `faces ruin' unless it emulates Tories - MajorMR John Major last night launched the European front of his reelection campaign here with a fighting speech that tore into the…Wed Feb 05 1997 - 00:00
Brussels warns Wicklow council over dumpWICKLOW County Council was warned yesterday that it would be ill advised to proceed with a controversial land fill dump near …Tue Feb 04 1997 - 00:00
Bonino describes "hellish" conditions in ZaireTHE EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid, Ms Emma Bonino, yesterday made an emotional appeal to the international community to…Tue Feb 04 1997 - 00:00
No statues, pirates of Euro-heroesTHE European Commission yesterday took the unusual step of denying that it intends to "litter Britain with statues of EU heroes…Sat Feb 01 1997 - 00:00
Smaller states have grounds for concernALTHOUGH now firm enthusiasts of European integration, Ireland's representatives in Brussels have been blowing hot and cold on…Fri Jan 31 1997 - 00:00
Journalist detects Irish link in Dutroux caseTHE family of one of two girls abducted and almost certainly killed by Marc Dutroux of Belgium have appealed to two young Irishmen…Thu Jan 30 1997 - 00:00
Ireland lowest in AIDS tableTHE incidence of AIDS is stabilising throughout the European Union with the exception of Spain, Portugal and Italy, where intravenous…Thu Jan 30 1997 - 00:00
Quinn blames rising pound on interest rate speculationTHE rapid rise of the pound against European currencies is largely the product of speculation on a rise in British interest rates…Tue Jan 28 1997 - 00:00
Dutch propose change in foreign policy vetoesTHE Dutch Commissioner for External Affairs has put the cat among the IGC pigeons with a proposal that the smaller EU member …Tue Jan 28 1997 - 00:00
Sutherland says EU political vision goneTHE former EU Competition Commissioner, Mr Peter Sutherland, warned yesterday that the "vision thing" had gone out of European…Tue Jan 28 1997 - 00:00
Irish protest at cut in beef export refundsIRELAND yesterday lodged a protest with the EU's Farm Council at the decision of the Commission to reduce export refunds for …Tue Jan 21 1997 - 00:00
Ilegally detained woman gets £14,000AN Irishwoman, Ms Mary O'Reilly, has received damages of £14,000 in settlement of an action brought against the Government in…Tue Jan 21 1997 - 00:00
Ministers cautious on idea of EU "flexibility"CAUTION was the watchword yesterday when EU Foreign Ministers opened the key debate on how to provide for different speeds of…Tue Jan 21 1997 - 00:00
Arcane Euro politics redolent of class bulliesPICTURE, if you will, the small boy standing on the edge, of the cold football field as the two class bullies make their team…Fri Jan 17 1997 - 00:00
Santer to set up separate food safety bodyTHE President of the European Commission, Mr Jacques Santer, last night promised to remove the supervision of food safety from…Thu Jan 16 1997 - 00:00
Bruton wants ethical debate on EUTHE Taoiseach yesterday called on the European Union to turn from its internal preoccupations and initiate a new philosophical…Thu Jan 16 1997 - 00:00
MacSharry criticised in BSE reportMOST of the blame for the mishandling of the BSE crisis in the early 1990s has been laid at the door of the British government…Tue Jan 14 1997 - 00:00
All the BSE actions were backed by Commission - MacSharryTHE draft European Parliament report on the handling of the BSE crisis won broad support from MEPs when it was debated here in…Tue Jan 14 1997 - 00:00
Dutch still at odds with EU partners on cannabisTHE Dutch EU Presidency boasts that such is the pressure of the Union's own business that, unusually, the cabinet has decided…Fri Jan 10 1997 - 00:00
Barrett ties up `outstanding' package on catch quotasMARATHON EU fish talks early yesterday morning produced a compromise package which will see Irish quotas up by some 2,730 tonnes…Sat Dec 21 1996 - 00:00
EU warns over failure to stop lake pollutionIRELAND has been warned by the European Commission that it faces possible legal action in the European Court of Justice over …Fri Dec 20 1996 - 00:00
Commission ties itself in smoke rings in handling tobacco lobbyTHE European Commission tied itself in smoke rings yesterday when it announced simultaneously the continuation of its £800 million…Thu Dec 19 1996 - 00:00
Irish film fund proposal wins wide supportIRELAND'S compromise proposals on a European film guarantee fund won wide support at the meeting of culture ministers in Brussels…Tue Dec 17 1996 - 00:00
BELGIUMTHE Belgian Prime Minister, Mr Jean-Luc Dehaene, was a man in a hurry to get out of townMon Dec 16 1996 - 00:00
Little Ireland can take a bow for a presidency that achieved plenty and was widely praisedA VERY senior Commission official, involved at the highest level of European politics since 1982, said simply on Saturday that…Mon Dec 16 1996 - 00:00
Irish role praised as summit deal is reached on EMUTHE DUBLIN European summit last night crowned the success of the Irish EU Presidency with a decisive step in the direction of…Sat Dec 14 1996 - 00:00
Attitudes to fiscal discipline at bottom of Euro disputeIT might seem a technical row, but the truth is that the issue which divides EU Finance Ministers over one clause in the post…Fri Dec 13 1996 - 00:00
