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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the European Investment Bank are planning to lend Euro 36 million each to the Serbia-Montenegro Air Traffic Services Agency to help modernise Belgrade and Podgorica ATC centres and related surveillance, navigation and communication networks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Security Council has been asked to pressure Serbia & Montenegro into restarting effective cooperation with the UN war crimes tribunal on former Yugoslavia. A letter from court president Judge Theodor Meron has attacked “extremely serious” persistent failures to help the court, such as failing to execute arrest warrants.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SERBIA police have arrested the general manager of the country’s biggest sugar producer MK Komerc, alleging he helped forged origin documents for exports into the European Union. These claimed the sugar was Serbia-made, benefiting from special EU market access, but it had actually been imported.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GOVERNMENTS and international institutions of the European Union (EU) need to better prepare for cooperative responses to large-scale man-made disasters that inevitably cause damage on a cross-border scale, the European Environment Agency (EEA) has claimed. In a report ‘Mapping the Impacts of Recent Natural Disasters and Technological Accidents in Europe’, the EEA said that the oncoming enlargement of the EU was “an opportunity to strengthen cooperation…across a much larger area of Europe.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GOVERNMENTS and international institutions of the European Union (EU) need to better prepare for cooperative responses to large-scale natural and mad-made disasters that inevitably cause damage on a cross-border scale, the European Environment Agency (EEA) has claimed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has drawn up plans to lend Euro 22 million to Serbia & Montenegro pharmaceutical company Hemofarm Koncern a.d. (Hemofarm) to finance the construction of a new solid forms packaging and production facility in Obninsk, Russia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is lending Frikom AD – Serbia and Montenegro’s largest ice cream and frozen food manufacturer – Euro13.1 million to help improve its production facilities, upgrade irrigation systems and produce more raw materials from its own land.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SERBIA & Montenegro’s largest grain trading company Yu-Point is to expand sales into south-east Europe helped by a Euro 12 million European Bank for Reconstruction and Development/Fortis Bank loan.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THERE is a significant risk that Europe’s summer of blackouts could be repeated after 2008, unless effective investments are made in power generation and distribution plant, the Union for the Co-ordination of Transmission of Electricity (UCTE), has warned.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRAUD is centre stage again in European Union (EU) news, following a series of high profile scandals, for instance in Eurostat. Now OLAF, the EU’s anti-fraud agency has produced an annual report showing that it is detecting more irregularities.…