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EBRD CONSIDERS FINANCING 20-YEAR PROJECT FOR THREE AIRPORTS IN MACEDONIA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) has earmarked Euro 45 million for a planned loan financing a 20-year airport concession in Macedonia. This would include the development, finance, operation and maintenance of a new terminal building at Skopje’s Alexander the Great airport; renovating Ohrid’s St Paul the Apostle airport; and building a new cargo airport at Shtip.…
EEA SHOWS HOW WATER SUPPLIES ARE STRESSED IN ENGLAND AND WALES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DETAILED report from the European Environment Agency (EEA), which highlights signals of environmental problems within Europe, says England and Wales can be labelled "water stressed", along with only eight other European countries. They are Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Germany, Italy, Macedonia, Malta and Spain.…
GREECE TOBACCO SECTOR UNDER PRESSURE FROM HEALTH REGULATION - BUT STILL THE WORLD'S NUMBER 1 FOR SMOKING DEMAND
BY MAKKI MARSEILLES
GREECE is something of a paradox in the tobacco sector. Its citizens smoke more cigarettes per capita than anywhere else in the world, yet its government is increasing anti-smoking legislation and its long-established leaf growing sector is shrinking towards virtual extinction.…
TURKEY TOBACCO SECTOR IS MONEY PIT, DESPITE GROWING HEALTH AND MARKETING CONTROLS
BY PAUL COCHRANE
TURKEY’S tobacco market, the eighth largest in the world and valued this month at GBPounds 6 billion in consumer price turnover by British American Tobacco (BAT) has contracted by 5% over the past year following the imposition of a nationwide smoking ban.…
EU ROUND UP - EASTERN EUROPEAN ENERGY COMMUNITY GETS TEETH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Balkans ministerial council has approved the rules of a dispute settlement mechanism for countries participating within the southeast Europe Energy Community. This links Balkans’ gas (and electricity) regulation with that of EU member states and ensures EU energy legislation is adopted in participating countries.…
POWER BOTTLENECKS AND CAPACITY SHORTAGES IN SOUTHEAST EUROPE IDENTIFIED IN PUSH TO FORGE REGIONAL ELECTRICITY MARKET
BY MARK ROWE
LAST month Modern Power Systems examined the workings of the pan-European ‘Energy Community’, which extends EU energy law eastwards to the membership hopefuls and encourages the region’s electricity transmission system operators and regulators to establish the cooperation and energy trading agreements and mechanisms by end of 2009.…
SOUTH EAST EUROPE ENERGY COMMUNITY AGREED DISPUTES SETTLEMENT SYSTEM
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Balkans ministerial council has approved the rules of a dispute settlement mechanism for countries participating within the southeast Europe energy community. This links Balkans’ electricity and gas regulation with that of EU member states and ensures EU energy legislation is adopted in participating countries.…
BALKANS ENERGY COMMUNITY AIMS TO LINK FRACTURED REGION'S POWER SUPPLY WITH WESTERN EUROPEAN NETWORKS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE POLITICAL map of Europe these days looks very blue. Most of it (discounting Russia) is part of the European Union (EU) and those countries that have yet to join are increasingly the odd men out.
The European Commission and its fellow EU institutions are keen on some of these countries becoming members and less keen on others, but the countries that are almost destined to join the EU (if they want to) are those surrounded by EU territory.…
BRUSSELS APPROVES MAJOR STATE AID SUBSIDY FOR GERMAN SOLAR POWER PROJECT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Balkans ministerial council has approved the rules of a dispute settlement mechanism for countries participating within the southeast Europe energy community. This links Balkans’ electricity and gas regulation with that of EU member states and ensures EU energy legislation is adopted in participating countries.…
INTERNATIONAL FINANCE TO HELP BUILD NEW BALKAN ROAD LINKS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank has approved the lending of US$125 million from its International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) to Macedonia, to help build new roads in the country. Meanwhile the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) is to manage the selection of developers to build the planned Euro 2 billion Bar-Boljare motorway, crossing neighbouring Montenegro.…