TAOISEACH Brian Cowen managed to buy Ireland four months before he must decide what to do about the country’s rejection of the Lisbon treaty.

THE Government last night came under pressure to ratify the Lisbon Treaty before the European elections next summer.

The president of the European Parliament has dismissed reports that the French Presidency will introduce standard corporate tax rates across the European Union when it takes over the EU Presidency.

The President of the European Parliament has said Bertie Ahern is one of a number of possible candidates for the planned new position of EU President.

OLYMPIC hopeful Fionnuala Britton has admitted to a conflict of emotions surrounding the current unsettlement in Tibet and the Chinese handling of it.

ALL MEPs have until the end of May to make a full disclosure of the allowances they claimed to pay assistants after suspicions of fraud.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern will join other EU leaders in Lisbon tomorrow to sign the controversial EU Reform Treaty.

THE Poles found themselves isolated at the EU summit in Brussels last night after insisting that Germany still owes them for their sufferings in the Second World War.