Government open to EU treaty changes

THE Government is willing to consider much greater changes to the EU treaties than just tighter budgetary control, European Minister Lucinda Creighton has said.

But this would not happen until next year, as the immediate priority is saving the euro — which must happen in the next few weeks before it is too late, she said, warning that the break-up of the currency “would be cataclysmic for Ireland”.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny meets German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin tomorrow as she struggles to convince party colleagues to support her vision for greater political and economic union in the EU, which she outlined at her party congress yesterday.