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BY KEITH NUTHALL
ANTI-NUCLEAR campaigners in France are warning that the European Union’s (EU) preferred site for the ITER fusion reactor could be vulnerable to earthquakes. The French ‘Network for the Abolition of Nuclear Energy’ has warned of an active geological fault seven kilometres from the proposed site at Cadarache, in Provence, where historical records tell of past significant earth tremors.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE’S prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin has signalled that his government is weakening its insistence that his country should implement reforms to the European Union’s (EU) Common Agricultural Policy two years after other EU Member States. The French government had negotiated the right to replace production-linked subsidies with direct payments to farms in 2007, compared with 2005 elsewhere.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A SUPERBUG in northern France has infected 112 people, 18 of whom have died since the summer. French health officials said 21 hospitals have discovered the presence of the bacterium acinetobacter baumannii. The infection rate has recently slowed but officials remain worried because the bacterium is resistant to most antibiotics.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ordered Italy to liberalise its regulations governing access to the Italian legal profession, by demanding that its national bar council does not reject out of hand qualifications gained in other European Union (EU) Member States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A BID by French conservation groups to persuade the European Court of Justice to ban wild bird hunting across the European Union at ecologically sensitive times – including nesting, rearing and breeding – has failed. Its judges ruled that wild birds could be shot during these periods.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce (ICC) wants the European Commission to call for changes to the USA’s 1789 Alien Tort Statute, allowing non-American companies to be sued in US courts for alleged human rights, labour and environmental offences committed in third countries.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROSTAT scandal has spread to another European Union (EU) institution, with the European Parliament’s budgetary control committee grilling officials from the EU Publications Office (OPOCE) and the responsible (education) Commissioner Viviane Reding. The office sold Eurostat data on its behalf, directing the proceeds to bank accounts of its choosing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LIVESTOCK disease bluetongue has spread across the Mediterranean from its existing outbreaks in Sardinia and the Balearic Isles to Corsica and Israel. French authorities have declared that six farms in southern Corsica are affected, with 723 susceptible sheep and Israel’s agriculture ministry has confirmed an outbreak in Gan-Hashomron, in the northern Hadera district.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE’S prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin has signalled that his government is weakening its insistence that his country should implement reforms to the European Union’s (EU) Common Agricultural Policy two years after other EU Member States. The French government had negotiated the right to replace production-linked subsidies with direct payments to farms in 2007, compared with 2005 elsewhere.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
FRENCH wine producers are protesting against their government’s anti drinking and driving campaign, with wine producer associations claiming wine sales in restaurants have dropped 15 per cent because people are afraid of being caught over the blood alcohol limit of 0.5g/litre, which has recently been strictly enforced.…