EU member states that do not protect their external borders effectively against illegal migrants could find themselves temporarily cut off from the Union under proposals from the European Commission.

INDIVIDUAL European Commissioners have been shocked to learn the price ordinary Irish people are paying for the crisis, Ireland’s Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn has said.

Europe Correspondent Ann Cahill looks at the case of one Irishwoman fighting for thousands of homeowners.

MEPs voted against the advice of the World Health Organisation, the EU Food Safety Authority and health and consumer bodies to allow food companies boast of the effects of adding a synthetic fatty acid to infant formula.

TIGHTER controls on food coming from Japan are being put in place by the EU but some MEPs have warned they may not be enough to protect people from the dangers of radiation contamination.

IRELAND will almost certainly have to wait at least another month before getting a cut in the interest rate it pays on its EU/IMF loan, according to EU and government sources.

MEAT and milk from cloned animals can continue to be sold and does not need to be labelled after member states and the European Parliament failed to agree new controls.

THE new Government got advance warning from the European Commission last night that it cannot change the goalposts of the agreement for the€67 billion EU-IMF loan.