The euro zone does not intend to change the terms of Cyprus’s bailout as requested by Cypriot president Nicos Anastasiades in a letter sent to euro zo(...)

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

Tax avoidance was nearly knocked off the G8 agenda when Barack Obama announced that the US would provide military support to the Syrian opposition for(...)

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

 Aer Lingus is seeking a court ruling that no Ryanair  bid could be launched before February 2014. Photograph: Frank Miller

Aer Lingus has spent €40 million fighting off Ryanair takeover bids to date and does not want to face another in August, the Commercial Court has hear(...)

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(...)

“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(...)

David Puttnam: the renowned British film-maker will address the Digital Agenda Assembly in Dublin on Thursday. Photograph: David Sleator

The digital economy and the potential for jobs creation in an increasingly digital world will be the focus of a Digital Agenda Assembly, which is expe(...)

 US attorney general Eric Holder in Dublin yesterday:  “All information that is acquired is subject to strict court-imposed restrictions.” Photograph:   Mac Innes Photography/Department of The Taoiseach via Getty Images

The US Prism surveillance programme is underpinned by court oversight and cannot routinely “listen in on anyone’s phone calls”, the US attorney genera(...)

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