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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE BULGARIAN government is pushing the European Commission for another Euro 550 million at least to compensate it for the forced closure of its Kozloduy nuclear power complex. Its economy and energy minister Petar Dimitrov told an intelligent energy national information day ceremony the Euro 550 million already pledged to the Kozloduy International Fund (Euro 300 million has been used) was not nearly enough.…

BY MARK ROWE

NUCLEAR energy production costs a lot of money and so it makes some economic sense for smaller countries interested in this climate-change friendly power supply to combine forces on major projects. So it is in eastern Europe, where in February 2007, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Poland provisionally agreed to build a new nuclear plant at Lithuania’s existing Ignalina site, initially with 3,200 MWe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE BULGARIAN government is pushing the European Commission for another Euro 550 million at least to compensate it for the forced closure of its Kozloduy nuclear power complex over safety concerns. Its economy and energy minister Petar Dimitrov told an intelligent energy national information day ceremony that the Euro 550 million already pledged to the Kozloduy International Fund (of which Euro 300 million has been used up) was not nearly enough.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE SHOOTING dead of the chief executive of the company maintaining Bulgaria’s Kozloduy reactors has redoubled the determination of the European Commission to see organised crime stamped out in the country. Borislav Georgiev was killed at home in Sofia, just two weeks after Commission President José Manuel Barroso called for action against Bulgarian crime, saying: "Endless investigations, delayed court cases do not amount to justice."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE NEWEST members of the European Union (EU) – Bulgaria and Romania – have been roundly attacked in Brussels over failures to combat organised crime and corruption. Their inaction could cost them dear. Keith Nuthall reports.

BEING criticised by the European Commission could easily be compared to being slapped with a wet fish: unpleasant, but nothing to lose sleep about.…

BY Keith Nuthall and Monica Dobie

Universities and colleges are constantly working with business and industry to undertake commercially valuable research. University World News will regularly feature a selection of these cutting edge developments in its business pages, which we hope will inspire businesses to contact researchers carrying out this valuable work.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CORRUPTION is hard to pin down and is by nature the most insidious commercial crime. While the European Union (EU) has been showing its concern that Europe’s governments and international organisations are at risk, news about a probe into European Parliament financial misdemeanours have highlighted the EU’s own failings.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EURO 2.58 million international research project is being organised by the European Union’s (EU) Eureka research network charged with investigating the design of new laminated packages – from paper to aluminium. Its aim is to develop by June 2010 new packs that extend shelf life of food products, said a note from Eureka.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BULGARIA’S road system is to be raised from its current poor and congested standard by Euro 1.6 billion in investment from the European Commission. New motorways will be built and existing international routes upgraded, such as the Vratza-Botevgrad, Struma and Maritza motorways.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have backed the European Commission’s move to introduce private storage aid for pigmeat to fight current low prices. Under the programme, pigmeat producers can claim EU aid when storing meat for between three and five months.…