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LOW COST AIRLINES
Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) body that represents local and regional authorities has called on the European Commission to review its state aid guidelines to allow its members to subsidise low cost airlines working from regional airports, because of the economic development they promote.…
AIR CANADA - CDG
BY MONICA DOBIE, in Paris
A FRENCH court has blocked a bid by Air Canada to use its regular spot in the undamaged part of Terminal 2 at Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris. Air Canada was forced into the older Terminal 1 to make room for more Air France aircraft in the new building, some of its roof collapsed in May.…
EUROPEAN ATC LICENCE
Keith Nuthall
THE PROPOSED creation of a European Union ‘Community licence’ for air traffic controllers, awarded under uniform rules and recognised across Europe, will be debated by MEPs and ministers this autumn. The European Commission has formally tabled scrapping the “current patchwork of national licensing schemes”.…
OPEN SKIES LATEST
Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening to ask the European Court of Justice to levy daily recurring fines of Euro 1,000’s against eight European Union (EU) member countries failing to scrap bilateral ‘open skies’; deals with the USA. Despite being so ordered 18 months ago, Austria, Belgium, Britain, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg and Sweden have maintained their agreements while the Commission negotiates an EU-wide replacement.…
AFGHANISTAN TRAINING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NASCENT tourism hotspot is being nurtured by the United Nations in Afghanistan, where the former Taliban government exploded the famous Bamiyan Buddha statues. The site also sports other archaeological remains and the scenic Band-i-Amir Lake, so is being visited by Kabul ex-pats Kabul and wealthier Afghans.…
NEW COMMISSIONER
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE KEY European Commissioner for Europe’s road haulage industry over the next four years will be France’s Jacques Barrot, who will become the new European Union (EU) transport commissioner. Replacing Spaniard Loyola de Palacio, the Frenchman shares her conservative politics and will also be a vice-president of the European Commission.…
SERBIA SUPERMARKETS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has announced plans to lend up to Euro 30 million in debt financing to a Serbia & Montenegro retail group, enabling it to launch 31 new supermarkets in the next two years.…
MADE IN EUROPE
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has abandoned its plan to introduce a Made in Europe label to boost European Union (EU) manufactured clothing after consultations revealed opposition amongst some member states. Britain, Germany and the Netherlands, among others, were keen to retain their own national labels and there were concerns that a Made in Europe system would have proved expensive to administer.…
FUR DIRECTIVE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A FORMAL ban on importing fur into the European Union (EU) from animals caught by leghold traps (and others considered inhumane) could finally be written into EU law. The European Commission has proposed a directive transposing international agreements struck in the late 1990’s with Russia, Canada and the USA, committing these countries to phasing out certain traps deemed particularly painful.…
GLOVE BAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FINLAND banned the sale of imported Pakistan-made working Soft Granberg brand gloves (sizes 7, 9, 10 and 11) because it discovered banned carcinogenic azo colorants in green textiles used as materials (along with untainted leather), reported the European Commission rapid alert service Rapex.…