A forum focusing on European issues was tonight told that they must first focus on a united Ireland before contemplating a united Europe.

THE debate on the EU constitution has begun and the chances are that it could become one of the greatest bores of all time because the same old faces are lining up with the same old tired arguments.

Czechs were voting today in a two-day referendum on whether to join the European Union, a move designed to bring the former communist nation firmly into the Western fold and boost its economy.

WILL Europe have a powerful president and a unified foreign policy? Will nations lose the right to set their own tax rates or implement social policy?

WAR in Iraq may be convincing Swedes that a united Europe is needed, a bank said yesterday, as it published the first poll for weeks showing advocates of joining the euro zone ahead of their opponents.