Economic penalties plan failsATTEMPTS by the French to make the payment of structural funds to EU member states conditional on their economic good behaviour…Fri Jul 26 1996 - 01:00
Ministers agree to £2bn EU budget cutsMINDFUL of the looming deadline for the decision on membership of the first wave single currency countries, EU budget ministers…Fri Jul 26 1996 - 01:00
EU slow to confront sexual harassmentTHE FURY provoked in Britain this week over the decision by Judge Alistair McCallum to halt the trial of a policeman accused …Fri Jul 26 1996 - 01:00
EU agrees proposals for WTO meetingAFTER dodging the issue for many months, the European Commission has finally come down in favour of combining talks on world …Thu Jul 25 1996 - 01:00
Spring raises EU concern over human rights in East TimorSTRONG EU concern about the human rights situation in East Timor and support for UN efforts to broker a solution were expressed…Thu Jul 25 1996 - 01:00
EU expected to include peacekeeping place in treatyA CONSENSUS has emerged among EU member states to include references to EU peacekeeping, humanitarian tasks, and crisis management…Thu Jul 25 1996 - 01:00
Yates warns against BSE scaremongeringTHE Minister for Agriculture, Mrs Yates, yesterday warned the media about the dangers of scaremongering on BSE with wild talk…Wed Jul 24 1996 - 01:00
Ministers talk tough on Burma and take steps towards nuclear treatyFOREIGN ministers from 20 countries and the European Union ended day long Asian security talks yesterday with some tough talk…Wed Jul 24 1996 - 01:00
Noonan calls for action on smokingTHE Minister for Health has condemned the US tobacco giant, Philip MorrisWed Jul 24 1996 - 01:00
Yates hints EU's cereals budget may be raided for beef payoutsTHE Minister for Agriculture hinted yesterday that the EU budget for cereals would almost certainly have to be raided to pay …Tue Jul 23 1996 - 01:00
Spring eases growing tension between blocsTHE Tanaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Spring, yesterday defused a row developing between the EU and the Association…Tue Jul 23 1996 - 01:00
Not-so-grey pragmatist with passion for a united EuropeIF the German Chancellor, Dr Helmut Kohl, occasionally conjures up the absence of European war to justify his great European …Fri Jul 19 1996 - 01:00
Commission backs plan to stabilise beef marketTHE European Commission yesterday approved a package of urgent proposals from the Farm Commissioner, Mr Franz Fischler, to rebalance…Thu Jul 18 1996 - 01:00
Spring hails Clinton move on US actTHE Tanaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs yesterday welcomed the decision of President Clinton to waive part of the Helms…Thu Jul 18 1996 - 01:00
Quinn rejects easing of monetary policyTHE Minister for Finance, Mr Quinn, made a robust defence of the EU's economic strategy yesterday, rejecting MEPs' calls for …Thu Jul 18 1996 - 01:00
EU vets say standards set on British gelatine may be too lenientONLY weeks after the EU's vets announced that exports of British beef gelatine could resume, they will sit down to examine new…Wed Jul 17 1996 - 01:00
Mediterranean aid deal approvedTHE Tanaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Spring, set himself a tough standard to maintain when the Foreign Ministers…Tue Jul 16 1996 - 01:00
EU waits as Clinton considers waiver on trade lawTHE EU yesterday decided to retaliate against the US in the escalating trade dispute over Washington's attempts to prevent foreign…Tue Jul 16 1996 - 01:00
Spring faces thorny issues at meeting of foreign ministersTHE Tanaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Spring, chairing his first meeting of EU foreign ministers here today, laces…Mon Jul 15 1996 - 01:00
Nuclear ruling is boost for Irish CND"THE ultimate evil." That was the description by the World Court in The Hague of nuclear weapons in a landmark ruling this week…Fri Jul 12 1996 - 01:00
Angry Bruton says decision to allow march a mistake he cannot understandA CLEARLY upset and angered Taoiseach yesterday condemned the decision to allow the Drumcree march to proceedFri Jul 12 1996 - 01:00
FBI-style force is sought by Bruton to beat crimeTHE Taoiseach yesterday called for a European FBI-style police force to fight organised crime in the EUFri Jul 12 1996 - 01:00
Quinn seeks to involve public in debate on monetary unionTHE Minister for Finance, Mr Quinn, reporting yesterday to the European Parliament on the programme of the Irish presidency, …Wed Jul 10 1996 - 01:00
Smuggling of UK beef to Italy claimedCLAIMS that British beef has been illegally smuggled through "Ireland" to the Italian market in defiance of the BSE caused export…Tue Jul 09 1996 - 01:00
Ireland well placed to act as broker in Rushdie affairPROSPECTS for a serious attempt at resolving the seven year dispute between the EU and Iran over the death threat to the writer…Mon Jul 08 1996 - 01:00
EU grants for three projectTHE EU Commission yesterday announced grants to Ireland worth some £30 million from the Cohesion Fund.Sat Jul 06 1996 - 01:00
Bruton keen to convey EU aims in simple termsJOHN Birt brought the concept of a "mission to explain" to broadcastingWed Jul 03 1996 - 01:00
Florence pays its tribute to two geniusesTHAT the Duomo in Florence was ever built is remarkable, given the man and his past.Fri Jun 28 1996 - 01:00
IFA milk quotas challenge moves to European CourtTHE legal challenge by the Irish Farmers Association to cuts in EU milk quotas reached the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in…Fri Jun 28 1996 - 01:00
Farmers to receive £70m for BSE lossesIRISH farmers are to receive a total of £70 million in income compensation payments this year for losses due to BSEThu Jun 27 1996 - 01:00
Howlin hopeful on greenhouse gas goalTHE Minister for the Environment, Mr Howlin, has expressed confidence that the EU will be at the forefront in pressing for cuts…Wed Jun 26 1996 - 01:00
Irish farmers' lobby greets Yates as he arrives in Luxembourg for meeting of EU ministersA DOZEN Irish farmers' representatives were in Luxembourg with their IFA banner to greet the Minister for Agriculture, Mr Yates…Tue Jun 25 1996 - 01:00
Formidable agenda passes to Ireland after Major finally releases the ballWITHOUT finding a solution to their problems they would, eventually, call a truce, only to take up arms again whenever the occasion…Mon Jun 24 1996 - 01:00
Britain drops objections to development of centralised police agencyTHE LIFTING of the British policy of non co operation has allowed the long delayed Europol Convention to get the final go ahead…Mon Jun 24 1996 - 01:00
Peace, jobs, sound money and safe streets in Bruton's visionTHE TAOISEACH paid warm tribute to the Italian Presidency in a speech to EU leaders wrapping up the summit.Mon Jun 24 1996 - 01:00
Unpleasant little war ends at price of British dignity"OUR policy of non co operation ceases as from nowSat Jun 22 1996 - 01:00
Leaders confident British beef deal can be achievedEUROPEAN Union leaders arrived in Florence last night to a swellering heat certain to defrost any lingering diplomatic coolness…Fri Jun 21 1996 - 01:00
Beef war to scale down as Britain accepts EU line on banA CESSATION of hostilities in the EU's bitter beef war of words appeared imminent last night as a senior British diplomat gave…Thu Jun 20 1996 - 01:00
Crucial week in efforts to end beef warTHREE months after the BSE crisis broke, the British Government faces a crunch week of meetings it hopes will begin to deescalate…Mon Jun 17 1996 - 01:00
EU officials lobbied over Ballymun light rail linkA LIGHT RAIL system to Ballymun would be the key to the viability of a badly needed industrial development project on the north…Sat Jun 15 1996 - 01:00
Stage drama provides relief from the beef warDRAMA on the stage in Brussels has been getting fierce competition these days from the carryings on off stage in the new genre…Fri Jun 14 1996 - 01:00
No half-way between violence and politics, Bruton tells Sinn FeinIN A BITTER attack on Sinn Fein, the Taoiseach yesterday warned it "there is no half way house between democratic politics and…Wed Jun 12 1996 - 01:00
Sanity on mad cows may rule if Britain pulls in its hornsTHE QUESTION is simpleWed Jun 12 1996 - 01:00
Concessions by Rifkind do little to deflect EU angerTHE British Foreign Secretary, Mr Malcolm Rifkind, yesterday hinted at a significant easing of Britain's obstructionist protest…Tue Jun 11 1996 - 01:00
EU fishery cuts to be hard foughtEU Fisheries Ministers yesterday put down markers that the 40 per cent cuts in the fishing fleet sought by the Commission will…Tue Jun 11 1996 - 01:00
Santer gives warning that Britain is putting strain on EU's toleranceA NEW broadside against Britain from the President of the European Commission, Mr Jacques Santer, yesterday is set to raise temperatures…Mon Jun 10 1996 - 01:00
EU poll shows deep division over sharing of sovereigntyHALF the Irish electorate believes there should be more voting by majority at ministerial meetings of an enlarged EU, a survey…Fri Jun 07 1996 - 01:00
Howard should win medal for brass neckWHEN they hand out the medals for the Beef War campaign, Michael Howard, Britain's Eurosceptical, hang-em and flog-em Home Secretary…Fri Jun 07 1996 - 01:00
Obstruction policy almost swung against UKBRITAIN'S policy of obstructing EU business nearly scuppered the partial lifting of the beef export ban at the Commission yesterday…Thu Jun 06 1996 - 01:00
