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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Environment Agency has released a comprehensive report promoting good practice within Europe’s waste industry, in a bid to ease governments’ reliance on landfilling, which it considers too dominant. Case Studies on Waste Minimisation Practices in Europe focuses on 10 initiatives undertaken in Europe during the 1990’s to promote and encourage waste minimisation.…

Keith Nuthall
PSYCHOLOGICAL harassment in the workplace, especially by colleagues, is the new growing health-and-safety threat in Europe, both as a source of stress and a cause of productivity losses, a European Union (EU) agency’s report has concluded.

‘Preventing violence and harassment in the workplace’ by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions has found that defence industry workers and government officials are most likely to suffer this kind of victimisation, with 16 per cent reporting these problems.…

Keith Nuthall
PSYCHOLOGICAL harassment in the workplace, especially by colleagues, is the new growing health-and-safety threat in Europe, both as a source of stress and a cause of productivity losses, a European Union (EU) agency’s report has concluded.

‘Preventing violence and harassment in the workplace’ by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions has found that defence industry workers and government officials are most likely to suffer this kind of victimisation, with 16 per cent reporting these problems.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Financial Corporation has persuaded a band of top commercial banks to join it in investing in Russian oil giant Lukoil, so it can exploit the Karachaganak oil, gas, and condensate field. The banks involved are ABN-AMRO Bank, Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank Aktiengesellschaft, Crédit Lyonnais, ING Bank, Natexis Banques Populaires, RZB-Austria, SG Investment Banking, and WestLB.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EXTENSION of Austria’s ecopoint regulation – which restricts the number of lorries that can cross its ecologically sensitive Alpine passes – is on a political knife-edge, with the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers at loggerheads over the shape of a future system.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE FLOODS in central Europe last August and September took a tragic toll of lives, disrupted local economies and devastated numerous museums with the irretrievable loss of cultural artefacts. In Dresden, the worst hit city, thousands of artworks had to be moved when both the Zwinger Palace, site of one of Europe’s great art museums, and the Albertinum Museum became victims of rising floodwater.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is organising a pilot training programme designed to equip European 250 professionals this year with crisis management skills enabling them to bring order to regions that have been wracked by warfare or civil strife. The courses are being run at the Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Stadtschlaining, and will involve judges, prosecutors, human rights observers, local administrators, social workers, teachers and infrastructure experts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is moving towards a deal with Switzerland over the payment of a withholding tax to avoid releasing information about EU citizens owning Swiss bank savings accounts. It wants avoid exposing these clients to tax demands from their home countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FORMAL threats of legal action at the European Court of Justice have been made against Austria, Belgium, Greece, Italy and Portugal over their alleged failure to implement the 1999 Directive on minimum welfare standards for laying hens. European Union governments were supposed to have introduced the standards, (including minimum cage sizes), by January 1, 2002.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is moving closer to a deal with Switzerland, where Berne would agree to pay Brussels a withholding tax to avoid releasing information about EU citizens owning Swiss bank savings accounts. It wants avoid exposing these clients to tax demands from their home countries.…