ALL visitors coming into and leaving the EU will be fingerprinted and have their details kept on an anti-terrorism electronic register under a proposal broadly welcomed by the Union’s justice ministers.

IRISH people will be issued with some form of identity document they can use when travelling to Britain as part of a move to maintain the common travel area, Justice Minister Brian Lenihan has said.

THE heads of 10 EU governments are expected to come to Ireland at the invitation of opposition leader Edna Kenny once the date of the Lisbon Treaty referendum is announced.

IRELAND is coming from behind in the drive to reduce its carbon emissions, partly because of the continuing development and partly because it has failed to tackle the problem over the past decade of record growth, according to experts.

THE European Commission’s €60 billion action plan to tackle global warming puts the EU to the forefront in the fight against climate change — but it is just the first shot in what will be a battle with member states.

THE cost of electricity will increase under proposals for a huge reform of the EU’s CO2 emissions trading scheme, due to be announced today.

IRISH workers are among the most mobile in the EU with a third in their current job for less than two years and about the same number planning to change jobs again.

IRELAND is more exposed than most other eurozone countries to the ill-effects of a down turn in the US economy, but a recessionis in no way inevitable, according to Finance Minister Brian Cowen.

IRELAND will have to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from buildings and transport by 15% by 2020 under a plan to tackle climate change to be published by the European Commission tomorrow.

MOST Irish people say they have never heard of and don’t know anything about the loss of biodiversity, despite up to half of all Europe’s birds, butterflies, fish and animals being threatened with extinction.