THE pleas of a mother for greater help for victims of crime across the EU has received a positive response in Brussels.

The EU's Justice Commissioner is warning countries not to over-use European arrest warrants.

THE insurance industry has predicted insurance costs will rise for female motorists and male pension policies following a landmark ruling by the European Court of Justice that setting insurance prices on the basis of gender is discriminatory.

THE cost of life, car and health insurance could rise for women but drop for men following a ruling by the European Court of Justice.

THE European Commission backed off prosecuting France for targeting groups of Roma gypsies for expulsion, but is threatening to move against the country over its failure to bring the relevant EU legislation into national law.

British Prime Minister David Cameron ran into French opposition today in his bid to reach an EU summit deal on a major new trade accord with Pakistan.

David Cameron will today urge EU leaders to back a major new trade partnership between Europe and Pakistan in the wake of the worst floods in the country’s history.

The EU is threatening to take legal action against France for targeting and deporting Roma migrants.

VERY few people read the small print when buying goods or services – and even fewer are likely to know their rights when they are buying from another country.

PROPOSALS to simplify the way up to 500,000 wills involving cross-border goods and property are dealt with in the EU every year have been announced by the European Commission.

Europe’s governments this afternoon approved an EU “Blue Card” scheme to attract highly-qualified migrant workers.

THE EU is to investigate taking prisoners from Guantanamo, the US detention centre in Cuba that President Barak Obama has promised to shut within a year.

THE Government is expected to opt out of a whole raft of immigration policy designed to encourage legal migration into Europe while strengthening borders against illegals.

IRELAND may yet agree to allow foreign couples to divorce under the laws of their own country in Irish courtrooms, Justice Minister Brian Lenihan intimated yesterday.

ALL visitors coming into and leaving the EU will be fingerprinted and have their details kept on an anti-terrorism electronic register under a proposal broadly welcomed by the Union’s justice ministers.

A SYSTEM to recruit essential skilled workers from Third World countries to fill job vacancies in the EU will be unveiled in Brussels today.

POLICE and security services across the European Union will share access to a wide range of individuals’ personal data thanks to radical new measures.

THE EU has agreed to hand over airline passenger data to an unlimited number of US agencies in a new deal thrashed out during a nine-hour conference.

THE Irish prison population could be significantly reduced if the EU rules that non-nationals can be sent back to their home country to await trial.

A RAPID reaction team of border guards is being created to protect the European Union’s external borders from a sudden influx of illegal migrants.

AN emergency Europe-wide hotline for children in trouble will kick-off a more child-centred policy that the European Union plans to adopt over the coming months.

A BATTLE to ensure female asylum seekers are not sent back to countries that practice female genital mutilation has blown up at the European Commission.

European Union governments have either collaborated with the CIA or turned a blind eye as it allegedly abducted and illegally detained terror suspects on EU soil, a British MEP claimed today.

Israeli lawyer Arthur Roth lost his 15-year-old daughter Malki in a Jerusalem suicide blast. Kenneth Thompson’s mother died in the Oklahoma City bombing. Spanish journalist Irene Villa lost both legs in an Eta bombing 15 years ago.

THE arrest and sentencing of an Algerian terrorist in Northern Ireland was an example of what good cooperation between police forces could achieve, the man who co-ordinates anti-terror activities in Europe said at the weekend.

British government plans to allow on-the-run terrorists suspected of crimes to return home to Northern Ireland are being referred to the European Commission, it was announced tonight.

An extradition hearing was set for August 17 for a London bombing suspect arrested in Italy, and a judge is “likely” to make a decision on Britain’s request that day, the suspect’s lawyer said today.

EU Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini has received a threatening letter posted in Britain warning him that new anti-racism and anti-Semitism rules would not stop Nazism in Europe.

In a meeting chaired by Minister for Justice Michael McDowell, EU nations agreed today on joint rules for dealing with asylum seekers to keep illegal immigrants out while guaranteeing essential rights for genuine refugees.

Tony Blair was today struggling to hold together the coalition which took military action in Iraq, after the Spanish Prime Minister-elect accused him and US President George W Bush of going to war on the basis of lies.

GARDAÍ will be able to get evidence including bank records and DNA from police in any EU country under a proposed European Evidence Warrant.