THE effects on patients when doctors are forced to work long hours, or on road users when lorry drivers have to make long journeys, are to be studied by the EU.

I FIND it highly irresponsible that Cóir should deliberately try to derail an informed debate on the Lisbon Treaty.

THE scattergun attack by Michael O’Driscoll on all and sundry on the EU and workers’ rights entirely misses the target (Letters, August 10).

SO the ruling class believes that rejecting the project of the ruling class, the Lisbon Treaty, was damaging to Ireland’s interests (Irish Examiner, July 27).

THE European Parliament is seen as the “people’s voice” since all the MEPs are directly elected by the EU’s citizens.

British prime minister Gordon Brown will offer new British plans for tighter banking controls today as the blueprint for the rest of the world.

EU leaders were last night inching towards agreeing a €5 billion package to help stimulate economies, including €110 million for an Irish electricity interconnector — €10m more than originally planned.

The head of the European Commission today called for action and not words when EU leaders gather in Brussels tomorrow to discuss the financial crisis.

Unions fighting the threat of cheap labour from migrant workers from new EU member states won the latest round of a legal battle over equal pay today.

EUROPE should ensure its employment policies enhance social inclusion as well as creating more and better jobs, a meeting with the EU social partners agreed yesterday.

WE should all support the call by the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) for a European day of action on April 2/3, when hundreds of thousands of citizens are expected to demonstrate in support a democracy, justice, equality, tolerance and freedom across our continent.

Union leaders in Britain were today pressing for a cut in interest rates to save tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs from being axed.

Britain must make its decision on the euro within the next year or so and ‘‘get on with its life’’, the director general of the CBI urged today.

The Bank Of England was today urged by both sides of industry to cut interest rates to give the economy a much-needed boost.

Interest rates in Britain look set to be kept on hold for the third consecutive month today, despite calls from industry for an urgent cut.

One of the Britain's biggest trade unions was today set to voice concerns that jobs could be hit if the UK joins the single currency.

Marks & Spencer is bracing itself for a 3,000-strong demonstration by former employees at its flagship London store.

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee has issued a statement explaining its reasons for cutting the base rate from 5.75% to 5.5%.

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee has issued a statement explaining its reasons for cutting the base rate from 5.75% to 5.5%.

Britain's economists have welcomed the Bank of England's decision to keep interest rates at 5.75%.

The two biggest groups representing workers and employers have joined forces to make their first ever joint Budget submission.

A new report claims a repetitive strain injury epidemic could devastate Britain's young workforce.

A leading City analyst says it is too early to talk about an interest rate cut in the UK after the US Federal Reserve's surprise move to cut rates on the other side of the Atlantic.