Europe should eliminate so-called “zombie banks” hobbling the continent’s economic recovery with a bank resolution authority underwritten by the Europ(...)

US president Barack Obama, European Commission president José Manuel Barroso and British prime minister David Cameron at a news conference at the G8 summit in Enniskillen. Photograph: Andrew Winning/WPA Pool/Getty Images

European and US leaders meeting in Fermanagh have given the go-ahead to formal talks in Washington next month on an EU-US trade deal.It is an initiati(...)

British Prime Minister David Cameron chairs an EU/US trade discussion with EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso; US President Barack Obama; German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Taoiseach Enda Kenny.

The sign by the main road into the Lough Erne resort said it all: “Obama in Fermanagh, we’re putting the spuds on.” For his Russian counterpart, the m(...)

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso speaks at a news conference before the start of a G8 summit in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland

Arriving in Lough Erne yesterday, President François Hollande said he “did not want to believe” that European Commission president José Manuel Barro(...)

Some professions are more than just a job, they are a vocation. Medicine is one such calling, according to Musa Sharkawi, one of the 226 future doctor(...)

Greece’s prime minister has offered to reopen a pared-down version of the state broadcaster under temporary management and reshuffle the cabinet, a go(...)

“We have to separate very clearly the difference between the seduction of modern technology, which is a phenomenon of short duration, and the necessity of European education which goes right back to the Acropolis and Socrates,” Minister for Education Ruairí Quinn has said.

We should not get “seduced” by technology and fall into a “commercial trap” by providing the latest hardware to schools, Minister for Education Ruairí(...)

It is a news story reminiscent of a Philip K Dick novel: a secret data mining project by one of the world’s superpowers, covertly gathering and storin(...)

G8 leaders gather
  • World
  • June 17, 2013, 01:00

The omens for dramatic advances for David Cameron at the Group of Eight (G8), are not propitious. The British Prime Minister, hosting the summit in Lo(...)

A girl waves towards police officers in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh yesterday. A large security operation is in place around Enniskillen and Lough Erne ahead of the G8 summit, which begins today. Photograph: Yves Herman/Reuters

The escalating civil war in Syria is rising to the fore of the agenda for the G8 summit in Co Fermanagh as world leaders gather today at Lough Erne f(...)

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