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BY DAVID HAWORTH
LAST summer’s European Parliament elections plus the delayed inauguration of the new European Commission under José Manuel Barroso has meant many quiet months in developing European Union (EU) policies affecting museums. What changes to EU cultural policy might be expected under Slovakia’s Jan Figel, the new education and culture Commissioner for the next five years will also not be evident until 2005.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) network of clinical trials centres is being created, which will provide services to public and private clients wanting to test new medicines and medical techniques. ECRIN, (the European Clinical Research Infrastructure Network), will also promote the harmonised implementation within EU member states of European directives dealing with clinical research.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN scientists have developed the first genetic map of a cow, a breakthrough they claim will help reduce animal disease and improve the nutrition and quality of beef products. The research, performed at the Baylor College of Medicine’s Human Genome Sequencing Centre in Houston, Texas, is part of a US$53 million global project to sequence the genome of different breeds of cattle.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research consortium has announced a breakthrough in cutting the weight of cars, producing and testing a full-scale carbon fibre floorpan, to be combined with sills, roof, pillars and side panels from the same material.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE HIGH flux reactor at the European Union (EU) Joint Research Centre’s institute of energy has successfully tested a new cure for brain tumours caused by skin cancer. The centre said this boron neutron capture therapy killed cancer cells while leaving healthy tissue unharmed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HEALTH ministers from seven European Union (EU) countries have agreed to boost research cooperation to develop an HIV/AIDS vaccine. Meeting in Paris, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the Netherlands agreed to jointly organise studies and clinical trials to speed up discoveries, avoiding duplicate testing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released a series of new approved, sometimes gruesome, health warnings for European Union (EU)-sold cigarette packs. Ensuring all the warnings meet the terms of the tobacco products directive, the Commission has stockpiled 42 designs in all the EU’s official languages.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HEALTH ministers from seven European Union (EU) countries have announced a plan to boost research cooperation to develop an HIV/AIDS vaccine. Meeting in Paris, ministers from Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the Netherlands agreed to jointly organise studies and clinical trials to speed up discoveries, avoiding wasteful duplicate testing.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE LONG-AWAITED civil racketeering trial is under way in the United States, where the US federal government is seeking a record US$280 billion from the American tobacco industry for allegedly misleading the public about the dangers of smoking since the 1960’s.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH
THE INCOMNG European Commissioner for Fisheries and Maritime Policy has held out little hope that the industry could be given any state-aided relief on diesel fuel.

Joe Borg, former Foreign Affairs Minister of Malta, told a European Parliament hearing this week (5-10) that he had every sympathy about the problems the ever rising fuel price was causing but doubted that the crisis could be tackled at a European Union (EU) level.…