Climate negotiators from the world’s biggest polluters have failed to agree on specific goals for cutting emissions of gases that cause global warming.

Minister for European Affairs Dick Roche today held talks on the Reform Treaty in his Co Wicklow constituency with his French counterpart.

FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy unveiled a broad-based cabinet yesterday, naming popular leftist Bernard Kouchner as foreign minister in a slimline government that radically reshaped the finance ministry.

EU officials quizzed World Bank president nominee Paul Wolfowitz on his development agenda today, while France pushed for more European influence in the delivery of global aid.