COMMISSION President José Manuel Barroso wants to establish a European Institute of Technology (EIT) to rival the best universities in the US.

FINDING a job anywhere in the European Union is about to become much easier with the launch of Europass.

More must be done to encourage people to start up their own businesses, the final major event of Ireland’s EU Presidency was told today.

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) provided more than two-thirds of total private sector employment in the European Union, an international conference heard today.

The Minister for Trade and Commerce Michael Ahern will open a Conference on the European Charter for Small Enterprises at Dublin Castle tomorrow.

THE European Union will be a strong partner with the US in political, economic and security matters, Tánaiste Mary Harney told business leaders during the EU-US summit.

A CORRECT balance must be struck between the need for new EU-US anti-terror laws and world trade, business leaders from both sides of the Atlantic told political leaders at a meeting in Adare Manor, Co Limerick, yesterday.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern will tomorrow raise the issue of prisoner torture with President George W Bush and urge him to do all he can to restore public confidence in the behaviour of US troops.

THE world’s two largest trading blocs, the United States and Europe, will be urged at their summit meeting in Co Clare on Saturday to work towards eventually creating a barrier free transatlantic market.