LIBERTAS leader Declan Ganley said he would need 30 MEPs in the European Parliament to make an impact, but refused to say if he would field candidates in next June’s elections.

EUROPE was today counting the cost of the failure of the WTO Doha round against a background of growing concern over the global economy.

BUSINESS and consumer confidence in the eurozone has fallen to its lowest level in five years and at the fastest pace since the 9/11 attacks in the US, with all indicators including services and retail showing a drop.

ABOUT 3,500 highly skilled immigrants and their families will shortly be given permanent residency in Ireland in an effort to keep them in the labour force.

BULGARIA will not receive €600 million in EU funds due to fraud and corruption, the first time the union’s commission has taken such action.

THE Government should be able to tell its EU partners in December if it will hold another referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, Foreign Minister Michael Martin has intimated.

THE opposition will strongly oppose any move to hold a second Lisbon Treaty referendum on the same day as the local and European elections next summer.

SCIENTISTS stealing research, millions of smuggled cigarettes, a crumbling bridge built with substandard materials and Chinese garlic claiming to be of African origin.

TENSIONS surrounding French President Nicholas Sarkozy’s lightning strike visit to Dublin erupted into the open last night as he was warned not to dare “dictate” to Ireland.

TEENS and kids are being ripped off by ring-tone scams according to a EU-wide survey.