Taoiseach Enda Kenny has pledged to allocate 0.7% of gross national product (GNP) to overseas development aid as part of a United Nations target.

The Danish parliament has withdrawn a €27,000 cartoon video featuring scenes of group sex, oral sex and a non-voter being decapitated that had been aimed at motivating young people to vote in European parliamentary elections.

Danes have given prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen a second four-year term, embracing his government’s pledge to keep immigration in check and taxes, among Europe’s highest, from rising.

Finnish Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen today deplored the exclusion of smaller EU nations from a summit called by British Prime Minister Tony Blair and said they will protest at such separate meetings.