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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN electronic communications and information technology industry has – finally – hit rock bottom and is now slowly crawling out of the deep recession into which it had slipped, according to a report published by the European Information Technology Observatory (EITO).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN EU-funded research project is exploring ways of preserving beneficial probiotic bacteria in foodstuffs during processing and storage. The PROTECH project is focusing on breakfast cereals, yoghurts and muesli bars. *http://www.vtt.fi/virtual/proeuhealth/index.htm…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) funded project has been launched, which will support the restructuring of Macedonia’s steel sector. This Euro 500,000 technical assistance project is being managed by the EU’s European Agency for Reconstruction, which is helping to rebuild the war-damaged economy of the southern Balkans.…

BY PHILIP FINE

NUCLEAR waste disposal programmes should be implemented in stages, so that decisions about how to proceed can be based on the latest available information, says a new report from the Board on Radioactive Waste Management of the US National Research Council, which provides advice to the US federal government.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
LEGAL professionals across the European Union (EU) are to be asked whether they support the idea of creating a parallel body of European contract law that would exist alongside national legislation. The idea is to create a set of legal principles that are recognised across the EU as a tool by which cross-border disputes could be resolved, but which – unlike standard European legislation – would not supersede national rules.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FARMERS may know them as the high priests of capitalism and expect them to preach against agricultural subsidies, but a recent report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has laid bare doubts that a truly effective farm support system has yet been invented, let alone implemented.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
AUSTRALIA’S Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Clean Power from Lignite is developing a system for heating and squeezing coal that will cut the need for extra energy to evaporate water content in this much maligned fuel by up to 90 per cent.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has been laying preparations for possible fuel shortages associated with a possible war in the Middle East, summoning its special group on petroleum provisions to analyse existing European Union (EU) fuel stocks and supplies. The Commission wants every Member State to stockpile enough fuel to last for 40 days of standard consumption.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission made a formal call for nuclear specialists involved in collaborative studies with experts from other European Union (EU) Member States to submit proposals for grants from the EU’s sixth framework programme for research. Brussels has set aside a budget of Euro 61 million – paid via EURATOM – for this work and has released a detailed guide of the research topics it will favour in grant applications.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
BRITISH government backed scientists have launched a pioneering research project that could see natural plant fibres being used to manufacture car body shells. Biomat is a four-year project using various forms of flax and hemp fibre, as well as willow, and is being funded by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.…