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BY ALAN OSBORN and KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has unveiled long-awaited proposals on boosting the security of energy supplies within the European Union (EU), and although the its package of measures falls short of tabling binding targets on infrastructure, the plan has been criticised by environmentalists.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has backed the European Commission’s conclusion that imposing anti-dumping duties on Indian cotton-type bed linen is no longer necessary. Ministers agreed to drop a review of the Indian exports, without imposing any protective tariffs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL development consortium is to promote sustainable cocoa production systems in west Africa, to make supplies more predictable for processors and profitable for producers, easing the sector’s recent price squeeze. The partnership includes the United Nations Development Programme, Conservation International and the World Cocoa Foundation, which have been working with Mars, Hershey, Nestlé and the Alliance of Cocoa Producing Countries, among others.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have approved the accession of the EU as a full member of the world food standards body Codex Alimentarius.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has launched a Euro 1.9 million Train-for-Trade project, creating expertise in international trade and investment within Laos and Cambodia via courses (some distance learning); training trainers and teaching networks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released proposals to liberalise the global cotton trade, aimed at helping to restart the World Trade Organisation’s Doha Development Round, following September’s inconclusive summit at Cancun, Mexico. Brussels has promised to offer an end to its export subsidies for European Union cotton producers and also to push for a specific implementation timetable to be agreed during the talks for scrapping such payments worldwide.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NURSING college has been opened in war-battered Kosovo and has started training 40 nurses and 17 midwives to raise healthcare standards in the former Yugoslav province. Euro 1.2 million has been spent on the institution by the European Union as part of a general Euro 29 million redevelopment plan for Kosovo healthcare, which has included reconstruction at the University of Pristina Hospital – in the province’s capital – whose medical faculty is housing the college.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to extend until December 2004 four existing textile trade deals agreed between the EU and the central Asian republics of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Tajikstan and Turkmenistan. The agreements were due to expire at the end of this year and their extension would enable these ex-USSR republics to continue benefiting from wide textile import quota access to EU markets.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
KFC has announced that it will end its recent advertising campaign that touted its fried chicken as healthy. The move follows the US consumer group the Center for Science in the Public Interest complaining to the Federal Trade Commission that the ads were deceptive.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is to impose 15 per cent duties on US cleansing tissue exports, after the World Trade Organisation (WTO) authorised EU retaliation to American protection of its steel industry, erected in breach of global trade laws.…