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BY PHILIP FINE

AMERICA realizes by now that it has a collective weight problem. Newspaper articles have been coming out at an ever increasing rate to remind them that 64 per cent of the population is overweight or obese, that the fastest rising group of overweight Americans is children and that the medical toll obesity exacts is estimated at US$100 billion (GBPounds 59 billion) a year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has referred the proposed acquisition of Italian tobacco company Ente Tabacchi Italiani by British American Tobacco to the Italian competition authority (AGCM), deciding the deal has no significant effect outside Italy and so “Rome is better placed to evaluate and deal with the competition problems.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to approve a detailed fishing access deal allowing EU fishing boats access to the Atlantic fishing waters off west Africa’a Guinea Bissau until June 2006. Under the agreement, licences to fish shrimp will be granted to Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Greek vessels, with boats from Spain (enjoying the overwhelming majority of rights), Italy and Greece being allowed to take fin-fish/cephalopods.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A FRANCO-ITALIAN research team have developed a faster and cheaper manufacturing process for fine aluminium rings used in rocket boosters, replacing existing vertical lathes and milling machines with a single system. The old process involves moving rings between machines, requiring additional equipment to secure them during shaping.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched a formal investigation into two state aid schemes operated by the Italian government in favour of the publishing industry in Italy. The Commission is concerned that the subsidies, which are in the form of tax credits and loan interest payments, may put Italian publishers, such as de Agostini, Electra, Federico Motta Editore, Rizzoli and Messagerie Italiane, at an unfair advantage in the European book market, compared with competitors in other European Union (EU) countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GIANT robot that resembles a four-legged spider has been developed by a European Union (EU) funded research project to shore up unstable slopes, preventing landslides without putting workers’ lives at risk. ROBOCLIMBER has been developed by a consortium of nine companies and research teams in four EU countries, among them Italian engineering company D’Appolonia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ordered Italy to liberalise its regulations governing access to the Italian legal profession, by demanding that its national bar council does not reject out of hand qualifications gained in other European Union (EU) Member States.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A FIERCE row over the blame for the electricity blackout which affected virtually the whole of Italy on September 28 has broken out between the Italian, Swiss and French governments, which may delay Rome’s moves towards liberalisation of its energy markets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Commission proposals to boost nuclear energy safety in Europe have come under fire from the British and German governments as well as the European Parliament, making it highly unlikely that they will be approved unscathed. In an unusual joint letter to the Commission, UK prime minister Tony Blair and German chancellor Gerhard Schröder criticised Brussels’ proposed directive, claiming that it would not deal tangible benefits in nuclear security.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OFFICE International des Épizooties, the world animal health organisation, has warned of an outbreak of bluetongue disease in sheep in Sardinia. Authorities on the Italian island have slapped a movement ban on farms in Cagliari province to prevent it spreading.…