The UN Security Council is to hold an emergency meeting on Ukraine after Russia called for public talks on the growing crisis.

Europe must get a grip on energy prices to protect growth and stop its industry from fleeing abroad, according to two top lawmakers.

GERMANY, FRANCE GOING SEPARATE WAYS?

GERMANY’S European Commissioner, (Günther Oettinger), has lent his voice to demands that the national flags of all bailed-out member states be flown at half-mast at EU buildings as a sign of the shame.

WE should be grateful to Commissioner Gunther Oettinger for his recent comments suggesting that Ireland’s flag should be flown at half mast around EU institutions, for what they tell us about the reality of our political situation.

As many as 150 members of the European Parliament have called on a German EU Commissioner to his comments suggesting flags of countries struggling with debt should be flown at half mast

THE German commissioner who talked about flying the national flags of debt crisis countries at half mast was accused of ducking and diving rather than recanting the idea.

IRISH MEPs have criticised a German EU commissioner for suggesting “deficit sinners” such as Ireland should fly their flags at half-mast outside EU buildings as a warning to other nations.

Irish MEP's are calling on the Commissioner for Energy Gunther Oettinger to apologise for his remarks to a German newspaper last weekend, or resign his post.

STRESS tests on all nuclear plants in the EU will be carried out by the end of the year, the European Commission has said.

Stress tests on all nuclear plants in the EU will be carried out by the end of the year, the European Commission said this afternoon.

Proposals for the first EU-wide laws on oil platform safety and standards are likely early next year, the European Commission said today.

TOUGHER safety laws for oil and gas companies operating offshore in Europe are on the cards later this year in the wake of the BP oil spill, the European Commission has said.