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BYALAN OSBORN
A COMMITTEE of the European Parliament is to mount a searching interrogation of three European Commissioners – Neil Kinnock, who is in charge of internal EU reform, Pedro Solbes, responsible for the Eurostat statistical office and Michaele Schreyer, who handles the EU budget – in Brussels next Tuesday.…

BY MARK ROWE
IN the days of the Soviet Union, many millions of men and women had a choice of one state-manufactured brand of shampoo, toothpaste or soap. If anything, the authorities managed to limit even further access to such “indulgences” as perfume.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has become embroiled in a new controversy

over its handling of allegations of fraud at Eurostat, the EU’s statistical

office, and could face a committee of inquiry in the European Parliament.

During appearances before the budgetary control committee of the parliament

this week, commissioners Pedro Solbes (monetary affairs) Michaele Schreyer

(budget), and Neil Kinnock (administrative reform) said flatly they knew

nothing until very recently of an alleged “vast conspiracy of looting” by

top Eurostat officials but MEPs of all parties made clear the denials were

not enough and that further inquiries were needed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GLOBAL shipping companies have been warned to be careful about information they reveal about the nature and positioning of their cargoes, with the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) using an assessment of the attack on the French tanker the Limburg as a cautionary example.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE ‘LOOTING of civilisation’ in Baghdad, with its vivid images of wanton destruction and looting inflicted upon the Iraqi national museum, was all too familiar for those who have followed events in Afghanistan. But everyone must hope the parallels stop there, for the experience of those quietly seeking to recover Afghanistan’s glorious archaeological past does not bode well for the long-term restoration of Iraq’s treasures.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
WHAT a complex and mysterious thing wheat is! Scientists tell us that modern wheat is a hexaploid, which means that the long-distant ancestors of wheat “hybridised in a way that combined three copies of the original genome to produce a genome with over 150,000 genes.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening Britain and France with massive daily recurring fines – which could exceed Euro 20,000 – over their alleged failure to comply with orders of the European Court of Justice to abide by EU water laws.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE TROUBLE-STREWN proposals to restructure the publicly-owned French road haulage operator Sernam appear to have hit another snag, with the European Commission opening an inquiry into the latest plans, which it fears may break European Union (EU) state aid rules.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
AN UNUDUAL and significant announcement was made by the European Commission earlier this month (April 2nd) and it should be required reading for any-one who thinks that Brussels is frightened of France when it comes to farming matters.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FRENCH government has proposed a summit of G8 environment ministers, the creation of a strong World Environment Organisation, which would take over the responsibilities of the United Nations Environment Programme as well as those of environmental departments amongst other multilateral agencies.…