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.

IRELAND has one of the worst survival rates in the European Union for cancer sufferers and should be spending far more on research, according to a leading expert in the field.

BRITISH Prime Minister Gordon Brown last night pledged his government was doing everything in its power to maintain economic stability amid signs that the immediate crisis over the troubled Northern Rock bank appeared to be easing.

A 16-YEAR-OLD Dublin student has scooped one of the three top prizes in the European Union Contest for Young Scientists in mathematics.