Why does Viart have 'EU' on the end of European countries names? TO my knowledge, none of the courier services require that. IT's a real pain to have a customer call and tell you the shopping cart won't accept Ireland as a country because the USPS doesn't like it!

These can be removed quite easily by clicking
 
Administration > Static Tables > Countries > Edit Country
 
or by accessing the database direct if you have such an option