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.

THE European Parliament has supported a demand by Irish farmers to produce an analysis on how meat imports from Latin America would affect European farmers and the beef industry in particular.

THE Government’s action in taking the side of landowners and vested interests in planning legislation could cost the country several million euro in fines, warned An Taisce.

THE European Commission has decided to put pressure on member states in a bid to ease the headaches Russia and its monopoly airline Aeroflot are causing Europe’s airlines.

THOUSANDS of babies disappeared over a 40-year period in Spain, stolen from their mothers and handed over for adoption by the state and the Catholic Church.

VITAL decisions about Ireland’s debt, including lowering the interest rate on the EU/IMF loans, will be taken over the next few weeks — at the worst possible time for the country.