THE Government is busy preparing a three-year detailed budget for the country.

KEEPING terror suspects locked up in Guantanamo Bay makes them glamorous heroes, according to the head of the EU’s counter- terrorism unit.

THERE is a conspiracy theory gaining ground in Brussels these days on what the Greek debacle and its fallout is really all about.

EUROPE had another week teetering on the edge of the abyss, its leaders tied to one another in single file as they inched their way forward along the top of the cliff in dense fog.

HAVING spent the past 18 months treating the economic crisis as a moral defect, eurozone leader Germany has made some remarkable strides in the last few weeks.

WHILE the whole world focuses on the horrific outbreak of a particularly virulent strain of E coli in Germany that has so far claimed 22 victims, there has been very little talk about Ireland’s scandalous history of this bacteria.

EUROPE has a problem with migrants — but not the problem that is highlighted regularly by politicians with their sights firmly set on elections.

IRELAND was one of a minority of EU countries that did not have a freephone hotline for missing children in place by yesterday’s deadline.

GERMANY, backed by France, is bringing about a fundamental change in the European Union.