With Greece teetering on the brink of a eurozone exit there has never been a more pressing time to reform the EU, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

Peter Clinch, one-time advisor to former taoiseach, Brian Cowen, has been appointed chair of the National Competitiveness Council.

The Atlantic and its Enemies: A Personal History of the Cold War

Former North Police Ombudsman Nuala O’Loan and High Court judge Mr Justice Treacy have been appointed as Visiting Professors at the University of Ulster’s School of Law, it was announced today.

YOUR Europe correspondent, Ann Cahill, makes a number of questionable claims in her criticisms of Declan Ganley and Libertas (December 15).

IN SEVEN days we will be given an opportunity denied to the vast majority of the European Union’s 500 million citizens.

WE should call our politicians to account for their deliberate attempts to deceive us about the true nature of the Lisbon treaty and their contrivance to manipulate the information we receive so as to influence us without our knowledge.

Voters in France faced an historic choice today as they cast ballots in a referendum on the European Union’s first constitution.

Europe’s landmark new constitution faces a make-or-break referendum in France tomorrow, when a polarised nation decides whether to boost or block the next giant leap forward in a half-century of efforts to unite the continent.

Geoff Meade

POPE JOHN PAUL II and Pat Cox, the president of the European Parliament, are being given one of the most prestigious awards in Europe, the Charlemagne prize.

The Charlemagne Prize for European achievement, usually awarded to a single person, is to be awarded twice in 2004.