# eu - Thursday 28 February, 2013
José Manuel Barroso also said that combating youth unemployment was a priority for the European Commission.
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Finance Minister Michael Noonan called the European decision a ‘hard won breakthrough’.
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# eu - Wednesday 27 February, 2013
Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney said the reform marked “extraordinary progress” in the Common Fisheries Policy.
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Yesterday Iran and six world powers met for talks on Tehran’s controversial nuclear programme.
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# eu - Tuesday 26 February, 2013
The Irish Timber Council, representing the country’s sawmills, says that the entire industry is at risk from the proposed sell-off of harvesting rights on Coillte forests.
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# eu - Friday 22 February, 2013
Tonio Borg, Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy said the results demonstrates the increasing tendency to shop online.
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Italy goes to the polls on Sunday and Monday but it’s still not clear who is most likely to emerge victorious.
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# eu - Wednesday 20 February, 2013
The agreement will ensure that a civil protection order, such as a barring order for domestic violence, can still be enforced if the victim travels or moves country.
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# eu - Thursday 14 February, 2013
Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney described the complex supply chain that led to one case of horsemeat ending up in frozen beef products in an interview this morning.
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# eu - Wednesday 13 February, 2013
We need that Oireachtas inquiry now to learn lessons from the banking crisis – so we never again experience such a crash, writes Green Party leader Eamon Ryan.
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# eu - Sunday 10 February, 2013
Italy’s outgoing Prime Minister has expressed fears over Silvio Berlusconi’s potential negative effect on the euro, should his party win this month’s election.
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The head of the British parliament’s food affairs scrutiny panel has called for a ban on importing meat from EU countries until the horsemeat scandal is resolved.
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# eu - Saturday 9 February, 2013
An enquiry by MEP Liam Aylward confirms that Government is forbidden under EU law to lift VAT rate on defibrillators – but that the EC says all states could give financial support to offset cost.
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# eu - Thursday 7 February, 2013
While the troika was happy with the continued implementation of the bailout programme, it warned that “unemployment remains stubbornly high” and turning into a long-term condition.
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If the economic downturn has taught us anything, it is the importance of exposing systemic wrong doing, writes Louise Bayliss.
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# eu - Wednesday 6 February, 2013
The Roman city has come to symbolise the decades of mismanagement of many of Italy’s cultural treasures.
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The looming payment deadline for the next €3.06 billion promissory note instalment is at the centre of discussions – but the legality of this debt is not being properly considered, writes Andy Storey.
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# eu - Tuesday 5 February, 2013
The Minister for Social Protection said that without welfare payment, “millions of families across the EU would literally be left with nothing”.
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# eu - Monday 4 February, 2013
“Let’s not delay it, let’s finish it,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters, saying Turkey has been trying to join the EU since 1959.
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Minister of State for European Affairs, Lucinda Creighton also said that Ireland’s neutrality was quite ‘narcissistic’.
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The current chairman and managing director of Goldman Sachs International also said he saw no reason for Ireland to change its corporation tax rate.
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The Tánaiste said that the future of the Irish government is a matter for the Irish government and the Irish people.
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He is joining the other three Presidents of the EU – Herman Van Rompuy, José Manuel Barroso and Martin Schulz.
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# eu - Friday 1 February, 2013
Joan Burton also said the main lesson from the economic crisis is that financial markets and wealthy elites should not be allowed to “dictate our future”.
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Do our politicians have it in them to say no more, asks writer and journalist, Nick Webb, who gives his ideas on what should be top of the politician’s to-do list.
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# eu - Thursday 31 January, 2013
The main purpose of the RFSC site was to guide citizens to do things in a better way that will benefit all of society
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# eu - Monday 28 January, 2013
It is almost three weeks since French and Malian troops began a battle to wrest back the north of the country from Islamist rebels.
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A European court ruled today that Iceland was entitled to refuse to pay immediate deposit guarantees to savers when a major bank collapsed.
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The Agriculture Minister is taking part in the Agriculture and Fisheries
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# eu - Thursday 24 January, 2013
An extra 187,300 people have joined Spain’s jobless queue – bringing the total to 5.97 million people.
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# eu - Wednesday 23 January, 2013
Here are the things we learned, loved and shared today.
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Political and business groups in Ireland have criticised David Cameron’s promise to hold a referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU.
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5 stories, 5 minutes, 5 o’clock.
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The British Prime Minister made the pledge during a speech in London this morning, saying he wanted to renegotiate his country’s relationship with the European Union.
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They’ll discuss EU budget and size of Emergency Aid Reserve and European Development Fund.
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# eu - Tuesday 22 January, 2013
The British Prime Minister hopes to negotiate fundamental changes in his country’s membership of the European Union, but this would have profound consequences for this island, writes James Kilcourse.
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# eu - Sunday 20 January, 2013
The British Prime Minister is expected to commit to holding a referendum on European Union membership after the next general election.
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A system of direct democracy would give people a more transparent form of government, writes Raymond Whitehead.
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# eu - Saturday 19 January, 2013
The man behind Silvercrest Foods breaks his silence as Dutch authorities say they are investigating a possible source of DNA.
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The bureaucracy, waste and profligacy of the EU repulses many people, writes Aaron McKenna – so is it any surprise the UK might want to exit?
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