TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern named June as the month for the referendum on the latest EU treaty, confounding pundits who expected a May date.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern began a three-day trip to EU member countries yesterday, which is generally seen as the start of his campaign to become the president of the European Union next year.

COMPENSATION will have to be paid to people travelling in uninsured cars involved in accidents they did not cause, the European Court of Justice has said.

SINN FÉIN was joined by Northern Ireland Unionist and British eurosceptic MEPs in a vote against the Lisbon Treaty in the European Parliament.

DEATHS on Irish motorways are increasing at the second-highest rate in Europe, while they are dropping in most other countries.

EU AGRICULTURE ministers will vote today on a highly controversial GM potato that, according to the World Health Organisation, could make people resistant to some antibiotics used to treat bacterial infections.

USING Irish in the EU could help win a ‘yes’ vote for the Lisbon Treaty, according to Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs Minister Éamon Ó Cuív.

IRISH citizens could be left waiting in line to have their passports checked at the borders to the rest of Europe because the country has chosen to stay outside the Schengen area, EU officials have confirmed.

ONLY one in four people know of the 112 emergency number that people can use to summon help in an emergency in any country in Europe except Bulgaria, and in their own language, according to the latest research.

THE controversial risk equalisation scheme in Ireland — whereby elderly and ill people insured by the largely State- owned VHI are shielded from higher health insurance premiums — has been approved by the European Court of Justice.