Local prosecutor Daniele Reynders said this morning that Liege gunman Nordine Amrani died in yesterday’s attack in an apparent suicide, and he was found with a number of grenades still on him.

A BABY was among four people killed by a gunman armed with grenades who opened fire on a square packed with children and Christmas shoppers in the Belgian city of Liege.

A LONE gunman armed with grenades opened fire on a square packed with children and Christmas shoppers in the eastern Belgian city of Liege, killing three people and injuring 123 before shooting himself in the head.

IN the middle of a news blackout, who comes and who goes offers a vital clue as to what is going on for the myriad of intrepid reporters covering EU meetings.

THE country’s entire banking sector and the Government’s budget plans will be scrutinised by officials from the EU and the IMF when they arrive in Dublin this morning on what will be a historic day for the country.

DESPITE two years of restructuring and up to €50 billion of taxpayers’ money, there is growing consensus the country’s banking system is still in need of a complete overhaul.

The transfer of confidential banking records by a Belgium-based company to US authorities for use in anti-terrorism investigations breached EU data privacy rules, the premier said today.

Belgian finance minister Didier Reynders said the EU is still in a phase of economic growth.

European Union finance officials are stepping up efforts to sniff out suspicious insider trading before the attacks on the US.