MANY Irish women having babies by IVF are not being told they can have a test to identify if the embryo has a fatal deformity, according to a European-wide report.

IRELAND is the most multicultural country in Europe and we are loving it, according to a European Union-wide poll.

EUROPE’S fisheries policy is in a shambles with huge overfishing and no proper controls on the €6 billion industry despite many species being close to extinction.

OUT with the old, in with the new.

With nine million immigrants living in France, the state can no longer afford to turn a blind eye to the discrimination at the root of the country’s rioting youths, writes Europe Correspondent Ann Cahill.

THE odds are stacked against lone parents in Ireland as childcare costs eat up more than half the income of those at work, while government benefits for stay-at-home parents leave them in poverty, an international study finds.

ONE of Europe’s leading cancer physicians described the misdiagnosing of breast cancer in a number of Irish women as a scandal.

IRELAND could meet its Kyoto target to reduce its greenhouse gases by 2010, according to the latest report from the European Environment Agency.

A NUMBER of Irish aid agencies told the EU’s Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid they are concerned that Europe is putting its own economic interests ahead of Africa’s aid needs.

AGRICULTURE Minister Mary Coughlan has told her fellow EU ministers she is not in favour of most of the European Commission’s plans to change the union’s annual €48.5 billion farm budget, including capping the amount of money any one farmer could receive.