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CHINA COKE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ANTI-DUMPING duties erected against Chinese imports of coke, (with a diameter of 80 millimetres or more), under the authority of the European Coal and Steel Community, are to be preserved once this EU institution disappears on July 24.…
TURKEY LOAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank has drawn up plans to lend around Euro 100 million to Turkey’s ministry of national education, to help the country continue improving its primary schools by installing information technology equipment into 6,800 classrooms.
This plan is part of a much larger programme of the ministry to introduce IT classes in Turkey’s compulsory education system, which was extended from five to eight years by the country’s Basic Education Law (1997); the law also aims to boost quality in primary education.…
WIDOW BENEFITS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Human Rights has ruled that the British government is breaking the European Convention on Human Rights by blocking men from receiving both a Widow’s Payment and a Widowed Mother’s Allowance.
Its ruling followed a case brought by Kevin Willis, of Bristol, who was awarded Pounds 25,000 in damages and Pounds 12,500 costs and expenses.…
ECSC STATISTICS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DECLINE in the European Union’s use and production of coal over the past 50 years has been documented in a detailed paper by EU statistical agency Eurostat to mark the end of the European Coal and Steel Community.…
EASTERN EUROPE
BY ALAN OSBORN
WORK is a lot more dangerous and unhealthy in the countries that will join the European Union in 2004 and later, than it is in the existing EU. A study by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions finds there is “nearly double the risk to health and safety at work in the candidate countries.”…
ROMANIA DOUBLE CHECK
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has voted to extend the double-checking system for exports of certain steel products from Romania to the EU, from July 1 until December 31. The system will be re-introduced without quantitative limits.…
EU COMPANY LAW
Keith Nuthall
A REFORM of the EU’s First Company Law Directive has been formally proposed by the European Commission, to ease the filing of company documents and registrations via electronic communications and also in any official EU language.
The aim said the Commission, is “to make company information more easily and rapidly available to the public.”…
PEDESTRIAN SAFETY
BY JONATHAN THOMSON
The European Parliament has accepted last year’s voluntary agreement between the European Commission and the European Automobile Manufacturers Association on pedestrian safety, so long as Brussels proposes a Framework Directive underpinning the deal with legal commitments.
The move is seen as a compromise between MEP’s opposing a detailed Directive laying down specific rules on car design and those in the European Parliament that do not trust carmakers to introduce measures to protecting pedestrians.…
SHORT CHAIN PARAFFINS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has formally ordered that short-chain chlorinated paraffins not be sold for use in the fat liquoring of leather, whether as substances, constituents of other substances, or in preparations where concentrations are higher than one per cent.…
PORTUGAL
Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank is considering lending money to Aeroportos de Portugal to enable it to expand the capacity of Oporto’s Sá Carneiro airport from 2.7 to 6 million passengers per year, by expanding aprons and taxiways, relocating the fire fighting station and control tower, while expanding and refurbishing the existing terminal building.…