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By Leah Germain

Making beer is a hot smelly process, as any home brewer will testify. But what is to be done with the steaming left-over grains from a brew: turn it into energy and biogas of course – say German and Slovakian researchers.…

By Katherine Dunn

The travails of Roman Polanski in Switzerland this autumn have offered some lessons to the world’s wanted over extradition laws and how to deal with them. The Polish director has of course been living in France, with little fear of extradition, since 1978, when he fled the USA facing statutory rape charges.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has provisionally approved the installation of two new reactors at Slovakia’s Mochovce nuclear complex, saying the plans meet Euratom rules, but only if additional security and safety measures are implemented. Slovakia wants to commission by 2013 two type VVER 440/V213 Russian-design pressurised water reactors with a power capacity of 440 MWe each, costing Euro 1.6 billion.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ANOTHER eight traditionally made European food products have been added to the European Union’s (EU) protected geographical indication lists, preventing these foodstuffs being copied by food manufacturers based outside the regions where they are traditionally manufactured.

Three of these newly protected products are from Portugal: a special rice – ‘Arroz Carolino das Lezírias Ribatejanas’; a smoked sausage ‘Alheira de Vinhais’; and a ham ‘Presunto de Vinhais’, also known as ‘Presunto Bísaro de Vinhais’.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE STEREOTYPE of Europeans favouring public transport over private cars is deeply flawed according to a new European Commission-funded opinion poll that interviewed 25,767 people. Pollsters Gallup not only confirmed that private motor transport is the most widespread means of making journeys in the EU (53% of those polled drove rather than cycled, walked or took public transport), 22% of these motorists would not drive less, even with dramatic improvements to rail, bus, air and boat transport.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved spending of Euro 423 million from EU budgets on subsidising the 2007-13 costs of decommissioning units 1 and 2 of the Bohunice nuclear power plant, Slovakia. Its national government promised to close the units by 2006 and 2008 respectively as a condition of joining the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved spending of Euro 423 million from EU budgets on subsidising the 2007-13 costs of decommissioning units 1 and 2 of the Bohunice nuclear power plant, Slovakia. Its national government promised to close the units by 2006 and 2008 respectively as a condition of joining the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the Euro 5 million in state aid which the Slovakian government wants to grant the Ba?a Dolina mining company. The money will finance the social and technical costs of the closure of its coal mine covering the years 2004 to 2010.…

BY MARK ROWE
IT is difficult to separate the present-day Czech paint industry from the industrial heritage of the country. While the rest of the world made jokes about Skoda cars during the Communist era, the Czechs fumed as they saw a once great engineering industry reduced to a laughing stock.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE MOST important driver of reform in the institutions of the European Union today is the impending enlargement of the EU eastwards, to take in (Greek) Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia.…