THERE should be a EU-wide child abduction alert system, electronically linking police in all member states if a young person goes missing, justice ministers have agreed.

OVER the next year more than four million Europeans will die from heart disease — and most of it could be prevented, an Irish cardiologist has told the European Parliament.

IRISH people want to become more European and are highly critical of the US, its values and culture, a recent study found.

EUROPE is to have an annual Day Against the Death Penalty, despite attempts by Poland to prevent it.

IRISH troops will be part of the European Union peacekeeping force in Chad, subject to Dáil approval.

MULTINATIONAL companies across the EU favour a harmonised tax base and tax rates, according to a study from KPMG. Finance heads in more than 400 firms with turnover of more than €700 million were canvassed.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern has admitted to feeling dejected and humiliated by the Irish rugby team’s defeat at the hands of Les Bleus at the weekend.

THE French president left the Taoiseach in no doubt about what was important when he paid him a pre-match visit at the Elysee Palace.

Proposals to revolutionise Europe’s energy market, cutting the price of electricity and gas and creating an EU-wide network, have been unveiled by the European Commission.

IRELAND’S reputation for corruption in the public sector has not improved in the past year according to Transparency International.