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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NETHERLANDS has secured the help of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to reduce its greenhouse gas emission targets by investing in eastern European projects aimed at fighting global warming. The bank and the Dutch government are creating a carbon fund, which will draw on Euro 32 million of Netherlands’ funds.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Commission competition officials are examining whether the German, Dutch and Belgian governments are spending too much public money on a Euro 200 million chemical gas pipeline project linking Rotterdam, Antwerp and Germany. The carbon steel pipeline will carry industrial gases such as propylene, avoiding the need for them to be carried by road or inland waterway.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Commission competition officials are examining whether the German, Dutch and Belgian governments are spending too much public money on a Euro 200 million chemical gas pipeline project linking Rotterdam, Antwerp and Germany. The carbon steel pipeline will carry industrial gases such as propylene, avoiding the need for them to be carried by road or inland waterway.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EASHW) and the Organisation of American States have struck a deal, leading them to cooperate in the publicising of health and safety best practice that can be applied on both sides of the Atlantic.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE GOVERNMENTS of 34 countries from the Americas will be struggling today (Wed19/11) to come to a draft trade agreement, much of which centres on agricultural subsidies. The Free Trade Area of the Americas meeting being held in Miami has seen two competing camps vying for control.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has given the European Commission two months to identify and ban the transfer of sensitive air passenger data to the USA or face legal action at the European Court of Justice. In a near unanimous resolution, MEPs said pressed the Commission to review material being sent to the Americans, identify what should be protected under EU data laws, and then block its transfer.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IT is an odd and depressing fact that employees who expose corruption, negligence and other malpractices in their work-place usually end up more reviled and outcast than those actually responsible for the wrong-doing in the first place. The institutions of the European Union offer excellent case studies in this regard.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CURRENT European Commission leadership, under Italy’s Romano Prodi, was supposed to be the clean-hands team, ridding the institution of the corruption and mismanagement that thrived under his predecessor Jacques Santer. The ongoing Eurostat scandal is undermining that reputation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ACQUISITION of Greek tobacco company Papastratos by the Dutch subsidiary of Philip Morris has been approved by the European Commission, which can concluded that the deal is not anti-competitive, even in Greece. Even though Brussels accepted Philip Morris would become the national market leader as a result, its concerns were eased by the fact that its existing brands are not in the same price segment as Papastratos’s lines, such as Assos and President.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Commissioner has broken a Brussels taboo akin to the Pope calling for quickie divorces and free contraception, he has called on the European Commission to propose fewer regulations. Frits Bolkestein, the Dutch internal market Commissioner told a Netherlands newspaper NRC Handelsblad that tougher safeguards should be written into the new European Union (EU) constitution to curb his own institution’s “tendency to over regulate”.…