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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A STRATEGIC research programme promoting nano-electronics, funded from public and private sources, is to be established by the European Commission and specialist European Union (EU) companies. A European Nano-electronics Initiative Advisory Council (ENIAC) will be formed to draw up the plan, being chaired by STMicroelectronics CEO Pasquale Pistorio.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH counterfeiting of the Euro currency increasing, the European Central Bank (ECB) has released advice to businesses on how to spot fake notes, without installing special equipment. “You only need to check a few features. Just feel the banknote, look at it and tilt it.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in Strasbourg
THE ELECTION of celebrated European Commission whistleblower Paul van Buitenen as an independent Dutch member of the European Parliament in June puts the former European Commission whistle-blower in a unique position to intensify and broaden his anti-fraud campaign.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NATIONAL work accident statistics are keenly examined by occupational health practitioners, but they do not enable the safety of British workplaces to be compared against other European countries; that is where Eurostat, the European Union’s (EU) statistical agency comes in.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
MILLIONS more Americans will have to start taking medication to regulate their cholesterol after recent US federal recommendations on new safe levels of LDL, or bad cholesterol, were significantly reduced. A report drafted by the National Cholesterol Education Programme suggests that the target level of LDL, the type of cholesterol that increases the likelihood of heart disease, should be less than 100.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONFIDENCE in the durability of public health systems is not high amongst continental Europeans, a new Swedish report has claimed. Without reform 81% of 8,000 citizens in seven European Union (EU) member countries fear that the quality of their healthcare will decline or stagnate.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNILEVER has told an international conference on climate-change friendly refridgeration that it will from next year buy only ice-cream cabinets free of the environmentally damaging HFC coolant, using Hydrocarbon (HC) as its preferred alternative. Its businesses operate two million freezers worldwide.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
The European Investment Bank has announced a new commitment to supporting renewable energy, pledging to increase its lending for RE by up to 50 per cent of its total financing for electricity generation in the EU by 2010.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WIDELY publicised new European Union (EU) constitution could restrict Britain’s freedom to legislate on environmental matters, assuming it is ratified. The EU already passes green laws on many issues, such as pollution emissions, water quality and fuel contamination – and the constitution would allow member states to continue passing their own environmental legislation.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CHILDREN who consume food additives such as colourings and preservatives are more likely to have behavioural problems according to British research. The study published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood was conducted on 277 three-year-olds over four weeks.…