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KEITH NUTHALL
SPINOFF technology from the European Space Agency has been used to create knitted steel flameproof textiles, which have been designed to protect the outside of road haulage containers from vandals. French company Société Ariégeoise de Bonneterie has adapted materials used on ESA’s Ariane rocket launchers, modifying the knitting technique to create a flexible fabric of steel wire that is extremely difficult to cut.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has ordered the Dutch government recover maritime transport aid it has paid out since 1996 to port and inland waterway towage operations, ruling that these payments broke EU state aid rules. Brussels approved subsidies from the Netherlands to towage operators, but had assumed that this money was for limited to ships working on the open seas.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved a special new budget item of Euro

32 million, (Pounds 20 million), in respect of the policy to reduce the EU’s fishing capacity by scrapping vessels, which should enable fleets to be downsized from next year, rather than in 2004, as previously discussed.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has filed an appeal against the dismissal of its cigarette smuggling action in the US against three tobacco companies: Philip Morris, R. J. Reynolds and Japan Tobacco. Notably, it has received formal support in the proceedings from the US Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association for its action, along with the World Health Organisation, the US Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has fixed Greece’s cotton production this year at 1.25 million tonnes, resulting in EU aid of Euro 571 million (Pounds 354 million) and a minimum price of Euro 593-a-tonne (Pounds 368). New rules have been introduced to prevent a volume of cotton being placed on the market which, said the Commission, “could have an adverse effect on the environment and cause significant falls in the price paid to growers.”…

Keith Nuthall
THE BIG fear of environmentalists, that global warming is melting the world’s ice caps, is maybe not true after all, at least this year, with European Space Agency surveys showing that pack ice has been unusually heavy in the Antarctic sea, trapping ships trying to deliver supplies to polar scientific bases.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched a case at the European Court of Justice against the British government, which is claims has failed to abide by European Union laws on environmental impact assessments for studies carried out on water management and green-field development projects.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and PHILIP FINE

ALTHOUGH the US knitwear lobby is breathing a sigh of relief over the recently delayed European Union tariffs on knitted textiles and clothing, it is warning that job losses would follow any final decision to go ahead with retaliation to the US steel safeguard duties.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE AVERAGE consumer that tucks into a pint of Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia or Chunky Monkey has no idea that this supposedly quaint, hippy-dippy company that started out of an old garage in the beautiful landscape of America’s Vermont Green Mountains, is really owned by the nemesis of such small companies – a faceless multinational – in this case, Unilever.…

BY PHILIP FINE

ALTHOUGH the US textile lobby is breathing a sigh of relief over the recently delayed European Union tariffs textiles and clothing, it is warning that job losses would follow any final decision to go ahead with retaliation to the US steel safeguard duties.…