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.

AN EU survey has found the Irish are the least likely to be paid untaxed, under-the-counter wages but more Irish than any other nationality refused to answer if they were working in the black economy.

ALL Irish recipients who benefit from EU farm subsidies will be publicly named, for the first time, next year.

PESTICIDES used on food should be halved in the coming decade thanks to new controls being votedon by the European Parliament.

UP TO a third of the 50,000 deaths a year in Europe caused by superbugs could be prevented, according to the European Centre for Disease Control.

EUROPEAN Foreign Ministers were accused of capitulating to the repressive regime in Uzbekistan after they agreed to lift sanctions imposed following the massacre of hundreds of human rights protesters over two years ago.

IRELAND would find itself out in the cold — being bypassed by the other European Union countries — if voters reject the new treaty in next year’s referendum, Charlie McCreevy has warned.

IRFU Chief Executive Philip Browne vowed his union will ‘not be held to ransom by contracts’ as it begins a review of Ireland’s disastrous Rugby World Cup campaign.