RESEARCH on why Irish voters rejected the Lisbon treaty should be complete by September, in time for Taoiseach Brian Cowen to keep his pledge and report to the October EU summit.

MORE than half of European Parliament members have backed a call for an EU-wide alert system for missing children following a campaign by Kate and Gerry McCann.

IRISH troops have had more than 200 encounters with armed bandits and have come under fire while defending refugee camps in Chad, the mid-term review of the mission to the embattled African state has been told.

THE special seatbelts used for children on airplanes are unsafe and must be changed, the European Parliament has warned.

AN EU-wide missing child alert system will not be established because member states do not have such a process in place.

HEART healthcare in Ireland was rated as mediocre and well below the EU average in the first Euro Consumer Health Index.

THE island of Ireland is in the best position in Europe to be a GM-crop-free region, Environment Minister John Gormley told his EU counterparts in Paris.

THE Irish Government is being sued by the European Commission because it has failed to introduce laws to ensure the polluter and not the taxpayer pays to clean up damage to the environment.

PROPOSALS to cut mobile phone costs by a further 70% have been outlined by the European Commission.

A REGISTER for companies, interest groups, lawyers and non-governmental organisations involved in the EU’s €1 billion-a-year lobbying industry has been launched.