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JANES AIRPORT REVIEW
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.…
FRANCE ECJ
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening the French government with massive daily recurring fines if it continues to ignore a European Court of Justice ruling that it abandons its tax discrimination against Virginia-type tobacco, most of which is imported.…
RUSSIA SHEET STEEL DUTY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed the reimposition of definitive anti-dumping duties on imports into the European Union (EU) of grain oriented cold-rolled sheets (GOES) and strips of silicon-electrical steel with a width or more than 500 mm from Russia.…
BACTERIA PROJECT
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.…
FLOODS PIECE
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE FLOODS in central Europe last August and September took a tragic toll of lives, disrupted local economies and devastated numerous museums with the irretrievable loss of cultural artefacts. In Dresden, the worst hit city, thousands of artworks had to be moved when both the Zwinger Palace, site of one of Europe’s great art museums, and the Albertinum Museum became victims of rising floodwater.…
EXTENSIFICATION PREMIUM
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.”…
OECD ROAD ACCIDENTS
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.…
CONGO ICJ CASE
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.…
EUROSTAT REPORT
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.…
EU ROUND UP
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.…