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BY KEITH NUTHALL

RUSSIA is threatening to impose an import ban on all European Union (EU) meat products from January 1. Moscow has written to the European Commission warning of a potential embargo because of the admission that day of Bulgaria and Romania to the EU – Russia claims safety concerns over these country’s meat products, which would henceforth have free circulation in the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

RUSSIA is threatening to impose an import ban on all European Union (EU) meat products from January 1. Moscow has written to the European Commission warning of a potential embargo because of the admission that day of Bulgaria and Romania to the EU – Russia claims safety concerns over these country’s meat products, which would henceforth have free circulation in the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) is planning to lend Romanian steel maker Donasid Euro 10 million to upgrade and increase production of round billets, used for seamless pipe manufacture. The loan will help the Tenaris-owned plant in south-east Romania boost annual production to 425,000 tons by 2009, from 230,000 tons in 2006.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE USA government is threatening to play hardball with Romania over the eastern European country’s refusal to accept imports of American poultry, unless production plants meet European Union (EU) rules, especially on welfare. No US plants are EU-approved, and faced with a halt to poultry exports to Romania, the US government is threatening to scrap a wide range of trade benefits, under its ‘generalised system of preferences’ regime.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed that definitive anti-dumping duties are imposed on imports into the European Union (EU) of certain seamless iron or steel pipes and tubes from Croatia, Romania, Russia and Ukraine.

These would expand earlier duties covering pipes and tubes of iron or non-alloy steel – excluding alloy steel – although tariffs on Russian and Romanian exports were suspended in 2004.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Cairo

THE EGYPTIAN government has passed new compulsory standards for its country’s booming private university sector, because teaching quality at the eight independent universities established in Egypt in the past decade has sometimes been poor.

With so many new institutions chasing a quick buck, teaching and facilities has been unreliable, Professor Farag Elkamel, Dean of Mass Communications at the Al-Ahram Canadian University (ACU) told the Times Higher Education Supplement.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ROMANIA is desperate to join the European Union (EU) but it remains unclear whether that desperation extends to clamping down on business crime, one of the key obstacles that Romania must overcome to gain entry to the club.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ROMANIA is desperate to join the European Union (EU) but it remains unclear whether that desperation extends to clamping down on business crime, one of the key obstacles that Romania must overcome to gain entry to the club.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has made permanently legal across the EU experimental wine-making practices that have been under trial. They include the treatment of must and fermenting wine with charcoal, employing L-ascorbic acid, adding dimethyldicarbonate (DMDC) and using yeast mannoproteins.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RISK of bird flu entering the European Union (EU) is becoming increasingly likely, with the European Commission banning imports of live birds and untreated feathers from Turkey, after a suspected outbreak in this country straddling Europe and Asia.…