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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PORT of Durrës, in Albania – one of Europe’s poorest countries – is to receive a much needed financial shot in the arm of Euro 17 million from the European Investment Bank, which will pay for the rehabilitation and upgrading of cargo handling facilities and quays.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TECHNOLOGICAL advancement seems to go hand in hand with miniaturisation; witness the development of the mobile phone from its 1980’s high-tech brick to today’s tiny handset; smaller than the devices used by Captain Kirk in the early Star Trek episodes that peered centuries into the future.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed that airport slots abandoned by airlines because of the drop in traffic following the September 11 attacks should be earmarked for their use in the coming year. Brussels is concerned that any reallocation of slots could cause chaos and confusion amongst operators, should the air passenger market recover suddenly.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL AND MARK ROWE
ALTHOUGH the future of the controversial bilateral open skies agreements, struck between the United States and a string of European Union Member States, has been thrown into doubt by an advocate general of the European Court of Justice, this is by no means regarded as a disaster by Europe’s airport industry.…

Keith Nuthall
A HIGH-LEVEL group of financial experts has made recommendations to the European Commission about a possible future EU takeover directive, which Brussels is to propose this Spring. The revamped legislation will draw on their ideas and follows the rejection by the European Parliament of a six-year-old takeovers proposal last summer.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SERIES of good practice recommendations on the prevention and detection of e-coli outbreaks has been issued by the European Commission, following a study of how six EU Member States deal with the pathogen.

Officials looked at the monitoring and control systems for red meat and milk in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Portugal and Sweden and concluded that although all were alert to the risks of e-coli contamination, there was a wide range of different public and private control measures.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has formally established the European Food Safety Authority, along with the set of EU regulations that it is supposed to police. Ministers confirmed that the new agency would be established temporarily in Brussels, as Member States have been unable to agree the location of its permanent home.…

KEITH NUTHALL
AN APPEAL has been made by the European Commission for experts in renewables and energy efficiency to apply for places on specialist panels helping them operate spending programmes in the fields, Save and Altener.

It has called for applications from specialists in:

*Energy efficiency in residential, commercial and public buildings, industry and transport;

*Integrated actions combining energy efficiency and renewable energy sources in buildings, industry and transport;

*Renewable energy sources for heat production and electricity production, as well as the integration of green power supplies with standard electricity markets and renewable energy sources in transport.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission is drawing up detailed guidelines informing its staff when they can talk to the media and the public, without breaching their contracts, following criticism from the European Ombudsman Jacob Söderman that existing rules were “insufficiently clear.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Medicines Evaluation Agency has publicised a warning made by German pharmaceuticals company Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH that users of its product Metalyse have been incorrectly using the vial and pre-filled syringe used to administer the medicine.…