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European Commission welcomes the Irish Presidency’s focus on stability, jobs and growth (IrishCentral)

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:17:31 PST

By: JANE WALSH

The President of the European Commission, Mr José Manuel Barroso and the College of Commissioners visited Dublin today for meetings with Taoiseach Enda Kenny, Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore and members of the Government to discuss working together with the Irish Presidency on its key priorities of stability, jobs and growth for Europe.

Ireland must reduce doctors' working hours or face legal action warns European Commission (IrishCentral)

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 08:45:35 PDT

By: ANTOINETTE KELLY

The European Commission has warned Ireland to reduce doctors' working hours in accordance with EU law or face legal action in the European Court of Justice, reports the Irish Times.

Legal dirty laundry - Ireland sued by the European Commission (IrishCentral)

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 06:00:11 PST

Ireland is being sued It sounds strange doesn't it, unexpected? But not only is it happening at the moment, with the European Commission deciding to press further legal action against Ireland for continued non-compliance with an environmental directive so uninteresting that even the newspapers reporting the story didn't bother explain what it concerned, but it's costing Ireland a good deal of money in the processIt's part of a long tradition, thoughI first learned of Ireland's somewhat renegade status within the so-called legal European order during a course on European Union law that I took at college last year READ MORE