THE European Union’s €750 billion support package announced yesterday has prompted strong growth in the value of the euro and in European shares but also prompted warnings that the market’s fears were merely allayed rather than dead.

THE Greek tragedy is not just a tale of a country going broke, of corruption, or when living beyond one’s means finally catches up with a nation, warns Nikos Ksidakis.

FINANCE Ministers were working against a tight deadline last night to set up a European rescue fund before the markets opened this morning.

THOSE who claim issues like the EU internal market rules and the single market policy are boring and just for sad bureaucrats should think again.

FINANCE ministers were struggling last night to set up a fund worth potentially hundreds of billions of euro to shore up countries in danger of going bankrupt.

IS it discrimination to ban women covering their face in public?

GREEK citizens are not just facing working longer for less pay over the next few years, but a complete upheaval to their way of life.

A NUMBER of senior Irish diplomats and officials are in line for top jobs in the new, EU external action service.

AGREEMENT on the conditions for the €45 billion loan to Greece was just a matter of days away, the European Commission said as several countries turned against Germany and its hard line on the Mediterranean country.

IRELAND is to take part in training Somali security forces to help combat the pirates that have been terrorising vessels along the African coast and in some cases kidnapping and murdering their crew.