Tighter controls on credit ratings agencies should steady volatile markets and cut out conflicts of interest, MEPs have said.

THREE tragedies. Three daughters lost. Three families looking for answers.

THERE will be an average of €9,000 in retraining grants available for the unemployed Dell workers, but it will have to be spent within two years.

AFTER the August break, it was back to work in Brussels yesterday “batteries fully charged and sleeves rolled up” for European Agriculture and Rural Development Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel.

MEPs called today for an international effort to counter piracy on the high seas.

Windfall profits from Europe’s farm budget should be used to help the world’s needy, a conference in Brussels was told today.

A LOOMING international crisis triggered by over-risky lending by financial institutions will be central to discussions at the two-day meeting of EU finance ministers beginning today.

AN estimated 80,000 people in West Africa are currently preparing to migrate illegally to Europe —and that situation is going to get worse, according to a senior member of the European Parliament.