The lack of a children’s detention centre outside of Dublin is to be raised in the European Court of Human Rights by Cork County Council.

THIS society’s struggle with alcohol abuse continues and it would be a very brave person indeed who might suggest that it will ever end. 

New rules governing transatlantic data transfers have been formally approved, months after Europe’s top court ruled against the previous arrangements amid concerns over surveillance activity by US intelligence agencies.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has been warned that a possible EU order to claw back Apple’s unpaid taxes could have “significant negative implications” for Ireland.

An EU court has ordered the Government to recover over €10m in illegal state aid from Co Limerick-based metals refinery Aughinish Alumina.

Shareholders in the former Irish Life & Permanent (IL&P) who are suing the Government for loss of earnings after the 2011 bailout, can expect an EU judge to make a preliminary ruling on the case in four months.

Europe’s top court will provide the first indication this week as to whether it will allow minimum alcohol pricing — a measure being considered by a number of countries including Ireland.

Irish teenagers taking on the ‘big tobacco’ industry have the power to become the country’s first tobacco-free generation, a campaign group has claimed.

Europe’s highest court paved the way for hundreds of bondholders to sue Greece in Germany after they were forced to take big losses on their investments in 2012.

The European Court of Justice has ruled that EU governments may ban gay men from ever donating blood, but only under strict conditions.

Anybody who does not want their Facebook information collected by US intelligence agencies should shut down their page. Such was the evidence given to the European Court of Justice.

Britain scored a rare victory in its bid to challenge European Union powers over the City of London as EU judges sided with the UK in a clash with the European Central Bank on clearinghouses.

Ryanair has won a ruling at the European Union’s top court allowing it to block price comparison websites from scouring its online database.

A European Court of Justice ruling could see full union rights restored to tens of thousands of freelance workers denied such entitlements for more than a decade, according to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions.

A leading electronic cigarette company in Britain has launched a legal battle over a European Union directive it fears will lead to stringent new regulations and stifle the market.

Germany’s top court has rejected lawsuits seeking to block the country’s participation in the European Stability Mechanism, a key part of the euro area’s response to the debt crisis.

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Ryanair Holdings has lost a court challenge that may have forced Alitalia’s owners to repay a €300m loan from the Italian government.

Internet service providers cannot be required to install filters that would prevent the illegal downloading of files, an EU court says.

A top EU court has ruled that a ban on pilots flying past the age of 60 is illegal.

Online shopping sites may be liable for trademark infringements if they play an “active role” in promoting counterfeit products, European judges ruled today.

THE insurance industry has predicted insurance costs will rise for female motorists and male pension policies following a landmark ruling by the European Court of Justice that setting insurance prices on the basis of gender is discriminatory.

UPROAR over the way Irish sugar workers lost their jobs dominated the Dáil yesterday in the aftermath of an EU ruling that the closure of Mallow’s processing plant could have been avoided.

A VERY sad day for unmarried fathers and a very sad day for children is how the organisation representing separated and single fathers described the court ruling confirming an Irish father had no automatic right to custody of his children.

CZECH President Vaclav Klaus set out his terms yesterday for signing the EU’s Lisbon reform treaty, demanding an exemption to protect Prague from post-war property claims and safeguard the sovereignty of the judiciary.

IN his letter (September 22), Daniel Harrington of Cóir says “the EU court, not the Irish people, will have the power to decide on important moral issues, such as abortion”.

IT must be with unconscious irony that posters urging a Yes vote inform us ‘It’s Your Choice – Vote Yes’.

PRO-LIFE campaigners have clashed over whether the Lisbon Treaty will force Ireland to compromise its ban on abortion.

An umbrella group of more than 50 business and professional organisations said today said that the claim from anti-Lisbon group Coir that the treaty will result in the minimum wage being reduced to €1.84 per hour was without foundation and an insult to the intelligence of voters.

Airlines must pay compensation to passengers whose flights are cancelled because of technical problems with the plane, European judges ruled today.

THE Lego brick, one of the most instantly recognised toys in the world, has been stripped of its trademark status by European judges.

EUROPE’S top court will tomorrow begin a hearing on a case between the Competition Authority and beef producers over attempts to reduce overcapacity in the industry.

THE controversial risk equalisation scheme in Ireland — whereby elderly and ill people insured by the largely State- owned VHI are shielded from higher health insurance premiums — has been approved by the European Court of Justice.

The ISEQ index of Irish shares is down almost 99 points on opening and is currently trading at 6870.39 points.

Aer Lingus will today lodge its formal appeal with an EU court as part of the legal process towards removing Ryanair from its shareholder register.

A European Union court has dismissed Microsoft’s appeal against EU antitrust order and upheld a €496m fine.

The European Union’s Court of Justice today upheld a £4.7m (€6.9m) fine levied against British Airways by EU antitrust regulators for using a system that locked travel agents into selling more of its tickets at the expense of its rivals.

A European court will today investigate the 15-year plight of a Co Kilkenny farmer who claims environmental pollution is causing his livestock to become sick and killing trees on his land.

The European Court of Justice is set to rule in the next hour on whether excise duty taxes should be paid when cigarettes and alcohol bought in another jurisdiction and shipped home.

The European Union’s high court today rejected Spanish complaints that electoral laws in Gibraltar, which allow some non-EU citizens to vote in European elections, violated EU law.

An EU court in Brussels today overturned the European Commission’s approval of a merger between the music units of media giants Sony and Bertelsmann AG that created the world’s second-largest record label.

The European Union’s Court of Justice today ruled against a complaint filed by easyJet regarding the EU antitrust approval of the 2004 merger between Air France and KLM Royal Dutch Arlines.