WHILE global leaders struggled in London to agree on policies that would let each do their own thing, Bill Clinton had a simple message for the alternative globalisation event in Brussels: “Just do it.”

The Labour Party is hosting an economic summit in Dublin today.

The former Danish prime minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen arrives in Dublin today for a series of meetings with members of the Labour Party.

New Labour leader Eamon Gilmore’s pledge to renew the party was welcomed by the head of the Socialist Party in Europe this afternoon.

A RED CARD campaign will be launched today to stop forced prostitution at this summer’s World Cup in Germany.

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

A FORMER Official IRA leader wanted in the US for forging millions of dollars made a public appearance yesterday at a meeting on the future of Europe.

A former Official IRA leader wanted in the US for forging millions of dollars today criticised a former Irish Government minister at a public meeting in Dublin.

Health services in Ireland must not simply be provided by the cheapest EU contractor, it was claimed today.

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams today accused the Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern of interfering in the Westminster election campaign in Northern Ireland.

SINN FÉIN could end up sitting where the Reverend Ian Paisley sat in the European Parliament if it wins a seat in the elections. But so could the MEPs from Fianna Fáil.

THE gloves came off for the first time on the Euro election campaign trail yesterday, as Independent Kathy Sinnott and Fianna Fáil MEP Gerry Collins slugged it out for the third seat in the South constituency.

Voters in Northern Ireland need to think what message it would send out to the rest of the European Union if the North elected Democratic Unionist and Sinn Féin MEPs, John Hume said today.

LABOUR leader Pat Rabbitte yesterday sought to cash in on the Government’s “record of broken promises” as he launched his party’s European election campaign in Dublin.

The current Government is the most despised and distrusted in the history of the state, Labour Party leader Pat Rabbitte claimed today.

British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott launched the European election campaign today with a rousing call on voters to back “justice, freedom and equality”.

Socialist MEPs have called on the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern to make a serious effort to finalise an EU constitution during Ireland’s presidency of the union.

A blueprint to create five million jobs in Europe, boost economic growth and protect the environment is to be presented to the Irish Presidency of the European Union in Strasbourg next week.

Bertie Ahern’s Fianna Fail party has enough on its plate than to contest elections in Northern Ireland, the opposition leader insisted today.

A trade unionist today accused British Labour leaders of trying to gag him on the conference floor as he tried to bring his campaign for Northern Ireland people to be granted membership to a wider audience.

Northern Ireland’s nationalist SDLP could fragment if it merges with another political party in the Irish Republic, it was warned today.