MINISTER Éamon Ó Cuív displays faulty logic when he says that to press the case for the inclusion of Irish among the European Union's official working languages would be inappropriate during the Irish presidency.

ANYBODY interested in watching politicians squirm should keep a keen eye on the proposed Constitution for Europe over the coming year.

THE so-called ‘dwarfs’ of the EU flexed their muscles at the Athens summit yesterday and insisted their opposition to a permanent and single EU president must be heeded.