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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening Hungary with legal action at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), arguing it is failing to provide fair access to groundhandling contracts at Budapest Airport. Brussels has said in a communiqué that the Hungarian government is breaching the EU groundhandling directive (96/67/EC) by unfairly limiting the number of potential groundhandling service providers at Budapest, and "failing to organise appropriate selection procedures".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS sector has long been the focus of some the most direct market intervention by the European Union (EU), and it would seem that the EU still has an appetite for such initiatives, consulting on new guidance on third party access to fixed networks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

COMPREHENSIVE action across the European Union (EU) is needed to fight bee diseases that are threatening food supplies through lack of pollination, the European Parliament’s agriculture committee has said. In a report approved today (Thursday), MEPs warned rising bee mortality could devastate EU food production, as an estimated 76% of food production in Europe depends on bee pollination.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has today released its long-awaited proposed nuclear waste directive, which would tell European Union (EU) member states to develop plans to store radioactive waste in safe repositories. The proposal however dodges the issue of whether to force governments to use deep underground repositories, even though it is clearly Brussels’ favoured option.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is to combine forces with the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in the coming year to examine offshore oil and gas safety in the light of the Gulf of Mexico spill.

At an ‘Energy Dialogue’ meeting in Brussels, senior OPEC and EU officials agreed to organise an international roundtable on minimising offshore safety risks early 2011, which could spark new regulations.…

BY ERIC LYMAN and KEITH NUTHALL

THE EXECUTIVE secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) Yvo de Boer will switch his attentions to the private sector after standing down from his job on July 1. He will be joining the consultancy group KPMG as global adviser on climate and sustainability and working with a number of universities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AS a new European Union (EU) energy Commissioner takes office for the next five years, EU member states are stalling over a plan to inject Euro 50 billion into European energy research budgets over the next decade. The Strategic Energy Technology (SET) plan released by the previous European Commission last October would involve a massive expansion of such spending from 2013 to 2019, but national governments have signalled nervousness.…

BY ZSOLT BALLA

IT may not be the easiest way to make a living – as it nowhere is – but even amidst the ongoing economic crisis, Hungarian truck drivers seem better off than their average east European peers. Those who work hard can make decent money, and, given the usual pessimist attitude of Hungarian people, drivers talking to Commercial Motor were surprisingly positive.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WHITE knight deal – sweetened by around Euro 4.5 billion (US$6.5 billion) in German government subsidies – to transfer control of Opel-Vauxhall to a Canadian-Russian consortium, is under fire. Britain’s business secretary Lord Mandelson has advised that alternative agreements are sought to save the ailing GM-controlled car maker, calling for a "commercially-based outcome rather than one determined by political intervention and subsidies".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE SIZE of the planned international investment in Ukraine’s gas distribution system has been revealed in a European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) memorandum: up to US$3 billion maybe pumped in. Money would start flowing with a US$300 million working capital loan from the EBRD for purchasing gas, repayable after this winter heating season.…