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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DISUSED steel works site in Luxembourg is to be cleared and redeveloped as the science faculty of the grand duchy’s planned first university. The European Investment Bank (EIB) has announced it will lend up to Euro 200 million to fund the construction of a science, research and innovation park at the former Belval steel works, near Esch-sur-Alzette.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ENSURING nursing home residents brush their teeth is good standard health practice. After all, it keeps bad breath and tooth decay at bay.

But new American research now suggests that tooth brushing is much more important: it could save a life.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched an in-depth inquiry into whether the Czech Republic paid illegal state aid to Czech steel producer Trinecké ?elezárny (TZ). Brussels will investigate whether the Czech government paid the proper market rate when it purchased in April a 10.54% stake in steel company ISPAT Nova Hut from TZ.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONSULTANTS Charles River has called on European Union (EU) member states to coordinate tax breaks they offer pharmaceutical companies for research, to maximise resulting benefits. A report ordered by the European Commission warns these could be frittered away if used to attract pharmaceutical companies from one EU country to another.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is promoting research improving old people’s nutrition: LIPIDIET preventing Alzheimer’s disease through diet (http://www.lipidiet.org/); OPTIFORD on how vitamin D strengthens bones (http://optiford.org/); and CROWNALIFE on foods improving digestion (http://www.crownalife.be/).…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A STUDY ordered for the European Commission – ‘The Financing of ATM To Achieve The Single European Sky’ – has caused something of a stir in aviation circles where a number of air traffic control professionals believe it to be founded on wrong assumptions and to give too rosy a picture of the situation.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
THE WORLD is waking up to biofuels, increasingly produced from food crops and their waste by-products and now one of the growing energy alternatives to conventional fossil fuels. As prices for traditional energy rise year on year, and energy watchers warn of oil production peaking around 2010, governments are looking towards food producers to grow the raw feedstock for the fuel of the twenty-first century.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) Joint Research Centre has asked for laboratories around the EU to participate in a series of tests of cattle brain tissue, some infected with BSE, some healthy. The idea is to examine the effectiveness of existing tests and the stability of samples.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU Council of Minister has approved an EU action plan to promote organic food and farming. It includes EU funding of information and sales promotions, boosting the collection of statistics, more research and harmonisation of organic farming standards.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released a policy paper recommending that a dedicated European tobacco and nicotine products agency be set up, mirroring the creation of EU agencies to regulate the pharmaceutical, food and cosmetics industries. The agency should, it suggests, have the authority to authorise the sale of tobacco products on the EU market, as well as order and conduct research into tobacco and nicotine.…