UNION members from across the EU converged on Strasbourg yesterday to protest at the Services Directive, which proposes to liberalise the European services market.

POLITICS is often described as the art of the possible. But when it comes to EU politics there is very little art involved as it seems that anything is possible.

Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny has warned the Government against believing that the Nice Treaty referendum was defeated on the issue of neutrality alone.