FISHERMEN are facing further serious cutbacks in the amount and species of fish they can catch next year under European Commission proposals.

IRELAND’S healthcare system has improved slightly over the past year, despite our cancer patients facing the longest wait in Europe for treatment.

IRELAND is one of the most vulnerable countries in the European Union when it comes to energy supply and must diversify to ensure supplies for the future, the European Commission says.

IRISH troops in Chad will swap their EU hats for blue UN berets when the UN takes over from the EU’s peacekeeping mission there next March, Defence Minister Willie O’Dea has said.

AUDITORS reporting on the EU’s accounts for its €114 billion budget warned they are unhappy about €7bn paid out for rural development and to help poorer regions.

EU leaders agreed a set of principles they will put to next week’s summit of the world’s richest and emerging economies on restructuring the global financial system.

IRELAND’S electricity network could be linked directly to France or Spain as an alternative to having another interconnector with Britain.

FROM tomorrow what you see must be what you pay when it comes to airline tickets.

IRELAND could be given three or more years to get its budget overshoot down to 3% when the European Commission evaluates the country’s economy on Monday.

AN EU recovery plan including measures to cushion the impact of the economic downturn on the real economy, and especially on jobs, is being drawn up by the European Commission.