Senior Irish MEPs tonight said they were confident top European officials would sign-off on a multi-million euro handout to support laid-off Dell employees.

Football’s world governing body has voted in favour of the ’six-plus-five rule’, which would put a limit on the number of foreign players each team could field.

AN EU survey has found the Irish are the least likely to be paid untaxed, under-the-counter wages but more Irish than any other nationality refused to answer if they were working in the black economy.

The European Union will pressure the United States to commit to including all EU nations in its visa-waiver programme, officials said today.

France and Britain were poised to clash today at European Union talks seeking to end London’s decades-old opt-out of the EU’s 48-hour maximum working week.

The European Commission plans to set up a €50m gender institute and review all EU gender equality laws as part of a major drive to promote equality of the sexes across the 25-nation bloc, officials said today.

THE European Commission announced plans yesterday for an annual €500 million fund to help workers left unemployed by restructuring due to globalisation.

CZECH Republic Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla has announced he plans to resign this week and has already stepped down as chief of the governing Social Democratic Party.

FORMALLY ending years of Cold War separation, Czechs celebrated their return to the West after voting decisively to join the European Union.

A day after voting decisively to join the European Union, Czechs today began looking ahead to the benefits of integration – and the expected hardships.

People in the Czech Republic voted decisively to join the European Union, their referendum result confirmed today.

Czechs were voting today in a two-day referendum on whether to join the European Union, a move designed to bring the former communist nation firmly into the Western fold and boost its economy.

The Czech Republic’s ruling party was in crisis today in the wake of parliament’s failure to elect a successor to President Vaclav Havel.