Lobbyists frequently rule Brussels and after years of promising to take action, the European Commission is to introduce a register of the 15,000 or so working daily in the EU capital.

IRELAND is facing multi-million euro fines from the European Union from this autumn for a raft of environmental failures such as contaminated water.

IRISH consumers are paying an average of 25% more for food and non-alcoholic beverages than the rest of Europe — and paying almost double for tobacco and alcohol.

THE era of the one cent flight promise could be coming to an end as European legislators insist that airlines must include all taxes and other charges in their advertising.

THE planned demolition of the Lismullen national monument in Tara to make way for the M3 motorway is being investigated by the European Commission.

A LENDING company has repossessed 30 homes since entering the Irish mortgage market in 2005, it emerged yesterday.

FLAVOURINGS specially put into foods simply to make them attractive to children could soon be banned under new rules going through the European Parliament.

THE phrase “let’s come together” might appear at first reading an innocent enough one.

IRELAND’S future success is entirely dependent on an educational system that is not up to scratch, the chairman of BP and former head of the World Trade Organisation Peter Sutherland warned last night.