Many EU citizens might have to pay for a trade deal with South American countries with medical bills.

EU farmers opposed this week’s EU move to raise an offer on beef imports to 99,000 tonnes at low import tax rates, in trade talks with the Mercosur trade bloc.

If we are serious about ending torture and capital punishment, we must do more than make lofty promises, writes Jorge Faurie, Cecilia Malmstrom, and Tsend Munkh-Orgil

Japan and the EU could forge a trade agreement later this week, officials said.

A protectionist US president and increased European suspicion of a President Trump-led America undermine the prospects of a planned transatlantic free trade agreement between the EU and the US.

EU and US negotiators said yesterday that they still needed to overcome large differences for a transatlantic free trade deal to be sealed this year, and factor in the impending exit from the EU of the UK, one of the US’s biggest export markets.

Farmers have called for the EU to immediately suspend negotiations on Mercusor, TTIP, and other possible trade deals, until the implications of Brexit are recognised and can be accommodated.

Business representative body Ibec has criticised the omission from the Programme for Government of the proposed major trade deal between the European Union and United States.

There is a clear resonance between the fears expressed by Greenpeace regarding the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the fears expressed in the report on debt by the Debt and Development Coalition Ireland (DDCI).

A sweeping free trade deal being negotiated between the European Union and the US would lower food safety and environmental standards, environmental campaign group Greenpeace said yesterday, citing confidential documents from the talks.

The European Commission’s proposed new investment protection measures would not stop corporations suing governments as has happened under existing free trade agreements, a new study has claimed.

Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney is urging the European Commission to keep sensitive products such as beef off the table until the end of the Mercosur trade talks.

The European Union is considering making the lowering of trade defences to Chinese imports conditional on China sharply reducing the amount of steel it exports to Europe, according to an EU official involved in the talks.

Jobs Minister Richard Bruton urged the European Commission to bring negotiations over a contentious transatlantic trade deal to “a rapid conclusion” and said he hoped an equivalent Chinese deal could also be struck.

Proposals for an alternative court system to judge disputes between investors and governments under the terms of the planned EU-US trade agreement have been unveiled by European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom.

Get a taste of some of the interesting and quirky happenings in Europe from our Europe correspondent, Ann Cahill.

Proposals for an arbitration system in the EU-US trade deal under negotiation have been well received by most EU countries including Ireland, Germany and France.

Get a taste of some of the interesting and quirky happenings in Europe from our Europe correspondent, Ann Cahill.

The European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmstrom has said Ireland will not be flooded by hormone-treated beef thanks to strict import conditions under the new US trade deal with Europe.

Jobs minister Richard Bruton has described as justifiable the criticism of a controversial dispute mechanism that can see investors sue sovereigns and which is set to apply to Ireland as part of a new trade agreement.

The EU made public yesterday confidential papers being used to negotiate a free trade deal with the United States, an unprecedented step to deflect criticism from anti-globalisation campaigners that Brussels is drawing up the world’s largest trade deal in secret.

ICSA says farmers will remain sceptical, amid ‘downward manipulation of prices by meat industry’

The TTIP promises major benefits to the EU and US, but can it possibly live up to the hype, removing barriers to trade between the continents and benefiting both. Peter O’Dwyer reports.

Get a taste of some of the interesting and quirky happenings in Europe from our Europe correspondent, Ann Cahill.

Europeans will become extinct if anti-migration policies are pursued, a comprehensive study of the realities points out.

Ireland’s “victory” of ensuring every country had its own commissioner could be scuppered in November when the new body is put together. Instead there could be super-commissioners, and not-so-super-commissioners clustered around them.

Air pollution at dangerous levels

A European Commission report looks at corruption in EU member states. Unsurprisingly Ireland faces particular scrutiny, writes European Correspondent Ann Cahill .

One in four businesses in Ireland believe corruption among state bodies prevented them winning contracts for goods and services.

Gun crime is reaching alarming proportions throughout the EU with weapons used not just to kill and maim more than 1,000 people a year, but to intimidate victims of trafficking and robbery.

Another change on cards for Childers

Online sexual predators are increasingly using aggressive tactics, including blackmail and threats instead of deception to solicit children, particularly girls, according to a Europol report.

Europe is being bombarded with a “relentless supply” of new synthetic drugs, posing unknown risks to users, the European drugs agency has warned.

Police investigating crime will be able to access the fingerprints of asylum seekers for the first time under new rules that should see asylum seekers’ requests dealt with much faster in future.

Enda’s German gong overshadowed

Merkel and Hollande wrangle on

EU countries are tightening their borders when, economically, politically and socially, they should be embracing immigrants, write Peter Sutherland and Cecilia Malmstrom

The EU has restarted to establish an union-wide system for sharing airline passenger data to counter terrorist attacks and the trafficking of drugs and people.

Criminals gangs in Europe target various EU states to hide much of their €135bn yearly haul, handing it over to relatives or investing it in legitimate businesses.

GARDAÍ searched the homes of five people and arrested one man as part of a massive European investigation into online child abuse material.

BRIBERY and corruption are costing taxpayers €120 billion a year and pushing up the price of public works by as much as 25%, according to the European Commission.

EU member states that do not protect their external borders effectively against illegal migrants could find themselves temporarily cut off from the Union under proposals from the European Commission.