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.

THE European Parliament gets a very mixed press, some of it warranted, some of it not.

IRELAND will link into an EU-wide network designed to tackle child pornography on the internet and other cyber crime.

EUROPE’S new trade commissioner to replace Peter Mandelson has been approved by the European Parliament, but she may not be farmer-friendly.

THE pressure on Ireland to ratify the Lisbon treaty increased yesterday with French president Nicolas Sarkozy saying the EU cannot continue without the reforms in the document.

EUROPE’s leaders may have set themselves the goal of solving the world’s economic and environmental problems last week, but everybody has their own problems.

EU leaders agreed a €1.7 trillion rescue package for Europe’s banking and financial sector at their summit last night, but were split over the cost of climate change proposals.