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PRO-FRENCH VIP GROUP PRESSES FOR FRENCH LANGUAGE PRIMACY IN EU LAW
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN an initiative bound to irritate any lawyer practising in English, a highly connected Francophile international group is pressing for the French language to have precedence in any translation dispute regarding European law. Why? Well, it’s simple, secretary of the Academie Francaise Maurice Druon told the European Parliament this week: “The language of Montesquieu is unbeatable.”…
EIB, EBRD PLAN EASTERN EUROPEAN WATER INVESTMENTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend the Polish city of Gdansk up to Euro 91.36 million for boosting the quality and management of its dinking water supply systems and its wastewater collection and treatment networks.…
EU ANNOUNCES AID FOR FOOD EXPORTS TO USA, JAPAN AND OTHER NON-EU MARKETS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced it will spend around Euro 4.7 million in helping German, Greek, Italian and Polish food producers and processors export to the USA, Canada, Japan, China, India and other big non-European Union (EU) markets.…
EUROPEAN COMMISSION WILL MONITOR POLISH AND CZECH STEEL PROGRESS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE STEEL sectors of Poland and the Czech Republic will be under a microscope wielded by the European Commission in 2007, when Brussels decides whether state aid pumped into these industries was well spent or should be paid back.…
EC STRIKES TENTATIVE DEALWITH RUSSIA OVER MEAT BAN THREAT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PRELIMINARY deal brokered by the European Commission in Moscow covering meat hygiene controls has headed off the immediate threat of Russia banning all imports of European Union (EU) meat and meat products from January 1. The Russian government had warned of an import blockade, because of concerns over the health and safety of meat from Bulgaria and Romania, who join the EU that day and henceforth benefit from pan-EU export rights.…
EU ANNOUNCES AID FOR POLISH MEAT EXPORTS TO USA, JAPAN AND OTHER NON-EU MARKETS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced it will spend Euro 870,000 over two years in helping Polish meat producers and processors export to the USA, Canada, Japan, China, India and other big non-European Union (EU) markets. As usual in these cases, Brussels is funding 50% of planned marketing programmes, matching financing coming from nation governments or private sources.…
EU ROUND UP - RUSSIA, EU, CENTRAL ASIA AND NORTH AFRICA VIE FOR ENERGY DEALS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is casting around for allies in central Asia and north Africa in its diplomatic tussle with Russia to secure cheap and reliable energy supplies. EU energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs has flown to Algeria to discuss closer energy ties with this major gas and oil producer.…
EU ROUND UP - EU STRUGGLES TO MAKE DEAL WITH RUSSIA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
RUSSIA President Vladimir Putin has signalled a tough fight with the European Union (EU) over a future energy deal as December 1 negotiations approach on renewing the existing EU-Russia Partnership and Cooperation Agreement.
Speaking after an informal EU heads of government summit, Putin stressed an agreement would not involve Russia accepting the terms of the unratified 1991 multilateral Energy Charter Treaty, agreed by Boris Yeltsin in 1991, and involving EU firms breaking Gazprom’s monopoly on Russian and Central Asian gas supplies and accessing Russia energy networks.…
EU LOOKS SOUTH FOR ENERGY SECURITY BLANKET
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is casting around for a coherent policy on securing its external energy supplies, and while it is unsure of securing a solid deal with Russia, it is making ever more strident overtures to north Africa, the Caucasus and central Asia.…
DIESEL LOSES GENERIC JEANS EXPORT ECJ CASE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
JEANS company Diesel has lost a case at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) where it was trying to block Polish company Montex from exporting Diesel-branded jeans from Poland to Ireland, where it has no trademark protection. Diesel argued it had the right to stop consignments crossing Germany, even though they were destined for Ireland, because it did control German trademark rights to the brand.…