Ireland is in discussions with an EU judicial body regarding the operation of a new EU register on terrorists.

PRISONS are overcrowded in more than half the EU, including Ireland, while a quarter of prisoners are awaiting trial and more than half in some countries are foreign nationals.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel today denied that she had told French President Nicolas Sarkozy her country planned to evacuate its own illegal immigrant camps.

EACH year thousands of children go missing throughout Europe, many never to be seen again.

EU Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini has received a threatening letter posted in Britain warning him that new anti-racism and anti-Semitism rules would not stop Nazism in Europe.