VOTERS divided along class lines for the first time in Irish politics when they voted in the referendum on the Lisbon treaty, according to an analysis of the result.

VOTERS should reflect on the benefits the EU has brought to Ireland over the past 35 years.

VOTERS plunged Germany into political limbo last night, splitting their ballots between Angela Merkel’s conservatives and Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s Social Democrats so closely that both claimed victory.

VOTERS in Hamburg have handed German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s party a stinging election defeat that reflected pent-up anger about his drive to trim state benefits.