A BULGARIAN MP has called for an investigation into how his signature was on a document lodged by Libertas with the European Parliament seeking recognition and funding.

EUROPEAN Parliament members want all those purported to have supported Libertas in its bid for EU funding to be interviewed following doubts about a signatory on the application for party recognition.

WAGE bargaining at national level has improved the gender pay gap, wage inequality and in-work poverty, an EU report has concluded.

THERE must be more competition between retailers to ensure the country’s economy recovers as speedily as possible, the EU has warned.

THE utter calm with which the blood-spattered young man got on his bicycle and rode away from the Fairytale Nursery in Dendermonde shocked witnesses.

THE European Union had indicated it would back an Irish request for a financial package to help soon-to-be redundant Dell workers, but stressed the need for the Government to draw up a comprehensive programme for getting those affected back to work.

THE Czech prime minister got a tongue-lashing from members of the European Parliament yesterday when he told them the Lisbon treaty was worse than the Nice treaty and would not pass in his country.

CONTROVERSIAL state mortgages for people already rejected by the banks are being investigated by the European Commission.

IRELAND has been portrayed as a furry brown set of bagpipes, Bulgaria as a Turkish squat toilet, Belgium as a box of chocolates and Luxembourg as a gold bar.

THE EU is to introduce safety standards for all baby walkers made in, or imported, into Europe.