The €79bn EU research budget will be launched in Dublin next month to Irish researchers and industry who hope to win about €1bn in funding over the next seven years.

More than €8bn being offered to researchers by the EU is expected to create hundreds of thousands of jobs in the short term and come up with solutions to some of the globe’s major problems.

The emergency EU summit is expected to resolve doubts over the fiscal treaty referendum, and shift the emphasis from austerity to growth in a bid to address the concerns of French president-elect François Hollande

European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science Máire Geoghegan-Quinn has called for a 'yes' vote in the upcoming referendum on the EU Fiscal Compact.

Ireland received a clear warning that it must spend more on research and its SMEs must be much more progressive if it is to create the kind of jobs and growth needed to emerge from the crisis.

Irish SMEs have secured more than 20% of the EU’s research funding going to the country, making them the fourth most successful in the union so far.

The Government is to challenge MEPs who rejected its nomination of a senior finance chief to a top job in Europe, Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has claimed.

IRELAND is one of just two EU countries where the spend by industry on research and development (R&D) fell last year.

Employers' group IBEC has today welcomed the launch of a €7bn R&D funding package by the European Commission.

Ireland's EU Commissioner Maire Geoghegan-Quinn said today that she is confident that the Government will secure a cut in the interest rate on Ireland's bailout loans.

DEFENCE of the country’s low corporation tax and the need for a better deal from the EU united the Dáil as it met in special session to mark Europe Day.

INDIVIDUAL European Commissioners have been shocked to learn the price ordinary Irish people are paying for the crisis, Ireland’s Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn has said.

Maire Geoghegan-Quinn has been named Irish Tatler Woman of the Year.

THE Irish Tatler Women of the Year Awards were announced at a star-studded event where European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science Máire Geoghegan-Quinn was declared the woman of the year 2010.

EUROPE has the ideas, the experts, the companies and the markets but is losing out on creating millions of jobs and turning around its flagging economy, Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn said.

FURTHER assurances were offered yesterday that there would be no change in Ireland’s corporation tax rate unless the Government decides so.

Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn will announce today nearly €6.4bn of European Commission investment in research and innovation.

THE do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do style of leadership received a hammering this week. For the past couple of years the Government has been according politicians special privileges while calling on the public to demonstrate patriotism by accepting cuts.

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EU Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn gave up the battle to retain her lucrative pension after numerous Cabinet ministers made clear she should forego it.

INTENSE anger over Máire Geoghegan-Quinn’s €108,000 Oireachtas pension saw the embattled EU commissioner surrender the payment to the state last night after the row threatened to damage Brian Cowen’s authority.

Máire Geoghegan-Quinn said this evening that she will forego her Irish Ministerial and Dáil pension while she is a European Commissioner.

There was further pressure today on Ireland's EU commissioner Maire Geoghegan-Quinn to give up her Irish ministerial pension of €108,000.

Finance Minister Brian Lenihan has said it is up to EU Commissioner Maire Geoghegan-Quinn to decide what to do about her Irish pension.

Pressure intensified on Ireland’s European Commissioner Maire Geoghegan-Quinn last night after a second minister signalled she should give up her Dáil and ministerial pensions.

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen has refused to call on EU Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn to forego her lucrative ministerial and TD pensions – even though several of his ministers have done so.

The Taoiseach Brian Cowen has said it is a matter for Maire Geoghegan-Quinn herself to decide what to do over her pension situation.

MEDICAL experts from all over the globe are to pool their research skills in a bid to develop treatments and cures for Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.

IRELAND has the two main ingredients to drive innovation and create the jobs of the future, according to an EU-wide survey, but is being let down by poor follow-through by businesses, especially SMEs.

Raising R&D budgets is the route to recovery and the EU target of the 3% of GDP target must be maintained, said Commission Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, speaking in Brussels today.

HOW nuclear physics helped reveal that a Bronze Age sword was never used to kill anyone has been explained to EU research commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn on her first visit to one of the EU’s flagship research laboratories.

THE Taoiseach angrily hit back at accusations his Government was “riven by internal tension” in the wake of claims that Trevor Sargent was forced from office as part of a Fianna Fáil plot to avenge Willie O’Dea’s fall.

The Taoiseach Brian Cowen has said he did speak to EU Commissioner Maire Geoghegan-Quinn about a job in her Cabinet for the recently resigned Green Party Senator Deirdre DeBurca.

FORMER Green senator Deirdre de Búrca said party leader John Gormley had assured her the Taoiseach promised a Green choice in the inner circle of Ireland’s new EU commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn in return for the party supporting the appointment.

GREEN Party chairman, Dan Boyle, has said Fianna Fáil did everything it could to get his former party colleague Déirdre de Búrca a job with the European Commission.

Junior coalition partner the Green Party today accused former senator Deirdre de Burca of threatening to damage the party if she was not given a senior EU post.

IRELAND’S new commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn has just three weeks to come up with an outline of how best the European Union can turn research and innovation into jobs and growth.

THE new European Commission was finally approved by the European Parliament yesterday, three months late because of delays over the Lisbon Treaty and questions over one of the nominees.

IRELAND’S next EU commissioner promised to stop the talking and turn scientific research into jobs and help Europe find its way out of the economic crisis.

IBEC have welcomed the appointment of Maire Geoghegan-Quinn to the post of EU Research and Innovation Commissioner.

Paul Rellis, managing director of Microsoft Ireland, has welcomed the appointment of Ms Máire Geoghegan-Quinn as EU Commissioner for Research and Innovation.

Former minister Máire Geoghegan-Quinn is the Government's nominated candidate for the post of Ireland's next EU Commissioner, it was confirmed today.

ALL newspaper columnists face the same dilemma: how much of ourselves should go into an article? Should we select a topic, adopt a lofty tone, present the arguments, and come to some clever conclusion by weighing up the evidence? Or should we just say, “This is what I believe”?

POLITICIANS, charities and members of the public successfully petitioned Justice Minister John O’Donoghue to reduce or clear court fines during his five years in charge.