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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has reacted swiftly to the Prestige oil spill disaster off Spain, asking ministers to immediately ban single-hull tankers aged 23 years and above from European Union (EU) waters, while blocking single-hull vessels of any age from carrying heavy fuel oil to the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union funded research project has identified four strains of lactobacilli that could help treat intestinal inflammations and infections. The DEPROHEALTH scheme has received Euro1.4 million in Brussels money; its aim is to develop oral probiotic bacteria vaccines to counter conditions such as rotavirus, which causes infant diarrhoea, and Chrohn’s disease.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
Europe’s ambitious Galileo programme to establish a global satellite navigation system is clearly a project that likes to keep its supporters in a state of fairly constant nervous tension. At a cost of 3.2 billion euros, Galileo was never a sure-fire runner to begin with.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has ordered Spain’s wage guarantee fund to recover Euro 545,000 in debt owed by specialist heat resistant ceramics manufacturer Refractarios Especiales S.A., after it concluded that an earlier waiving of this due payment was an illegal government grant.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) financial watchdog the Court of Auditors has criticised the EU’s 10-year-old extensification premium, a subsidy designed to encourage beef and veal producers to abandon potentially polluting intensive farming practices. The Court has claimed that the payments “did little to encourage additional extensive farming.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MALE-MENOPAUSE ridden men buying powerful motorcycles that they cannot ride properly is one of two reasons for a levelling off in a 10-year decline in road accidents in rich countries, an OECD report claims. The other problem is an increase in illicit drug use by drivers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHILE the number of companies in the European Union’s (EU) insurance sector has been dwindling, the amount of business that it has been writing collectively has been booming, according to the latest comparative figures from EU statistical agency Eurostat.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WATER privatisation has certainly had its critics, but it has a new supporter in the shape of the European Commission. It has publicly backed the growing privatisation of Europe’s water utilities, with its internal market commissioner praising British government moves to inject competition into its national sector.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE REPUBLIC of the Congo (Brazzaville) has launched a case at the International Court of Justice, in the Hague, which is trying to undermine the principle of extra-territoriality under which activist magistrates, for instance in Belgium and Spain, have been seeking to prosecute crimes committed abroad.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has publicly backed the growing privatisation of Europe’s water utilities, with its internal market commissioner backing British government moves to inject competition into its national sector.

Indeed, Frits Bolkestein defended the much-maligned record of privatised water services in the UK, blaming the price rises in the 1990’s on a failure to ensure private water companies could compete and previous government neglect.…