TOYS from China have been given the all-clear just in time for Christmas as the EU lifted its threat to ban them following safety concerns.

SEX-TRAFFICKED women are frequently deported from Ireland rather than helped, the European Network Against Racism says.

REFORMS to the EU’s €106 billion farm payments policy, which could see Irish farmers lose €100 million a year, will be resisted by the country’s main farming organisations and politicians.

EU Commissioner Charlie McCreevy has threatened to take the Government to court over the preferential treatment they give to the Voluntary Health Insurance (VHI).

AN POST can keep its government contract to distribute more than €7 billion a year in social welfare payments, the European Court of Justice has ruled.

A CAMPAIGN to cut the rate of VAT on condoms has been launched on Facebook by members of the European Parliament ahead of World Aids day next month.

MINISTERS have spoken in Irish 22 times at EU meetings since the language became an official one last January, while MEPs have used it about twice as often.

THE employers’ organisation IBEC says it hopes the Government will not simply follow the British in extending its ban on Romanian and Bulgarian workers next year.

THE Government can give State funds to Shannon to help start up new routes from the airport, according to the European Commission.

THE Government will be forced to clean up abandoned landfill sites around the country that are leaking into the groundwater and polluting it or face massive fines following a ruling from the European Court of Justice.