A case involving an Irish company where Polish workers at a €5bn nuclear plant construction site were exploited has inspired a change in EU legislation.

POLITICAL parties were being “dishonest” by continuing to claim the national deficit could be reduced to 3% of GDP by 2014, a conference of leading international economists at Croke Park was told yesterday.

Irish MEPs stepped up pressure on the European Commission today to explain why Brussels approved funding of more than €50m to help US computer giant Dell close its Limerick plant and move to Poland.