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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is backing a research study investigating cures for arthritis, follows up a previously successful European Union (EU)-funded study into medicine for inflammatory bowel disease. Brussels will tap its Seventh Framework Programme for research for the KINACEPT project, whose aim is developing drugs for novel anti-inflammatory compounds for autoimmune diseases.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) food safety alert service RASFF has reported another spate of aflatoxin contamination of nuts being imported into Europe. It says there were seizures in Austria of Turkish roasted hazelnut paste; in the Netherlands of Paraguayan groundnut kernels; and in Spain of Chinese groundnut kernels, all through aflatoxin contamination.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) heads of government have approved Euro 3.9 billion in EU spending on energy investment projects, after they finally finished wrangling over the detail of this keystone of their economic stimulus package.

As expected, the final programme has more projects in southern and eastern Europe than in previous drafts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EVERY recession has a silver lining: inefficient competitors are unmasked and forced out of business; and governments usually spend freely to pump prime an ailing economy. And for major essential industries such as the power sector, economic slumps can be good times.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) appears to be encouraging Czech brewery Bud?jovický Budvar to lodge a European Union (EU)-wide application for geographical indication protection for their beer. In a preliminary ruling, ECJ advocate general Dámaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer said a previous bilateral agreement between Austria and the former Czechoslovakia which said beers called ‘Bud’ must be Czech may offer no protection, unless Budvar also applied for EU-wide protection: "A name…which has not been notified to the Commission cannot obtain protection from one or more [EU] member states independently, and is unprotected."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE COUNTRIES hosting the Nabucco gas pipeline have convened an Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) to conclude the agreements necessary for the project’s construction. Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey have formed the organisation to decide the necessary planning, tax, and regulatory issues ensuring Nabucco is bankable and legally sound.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) could encourage Czech brewery Bud?jovický Budvar to lodge a European Union (EU)-wide application for geographical indication protection. ECJ advocate general Dámaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer said a previous bilateral agreement between Austria and the former Czechoslovakia saying beers called ‘Bud’ must be Czech, may offer no protection against rival Anheuser-Busch Inbev.…

BY MARK GODFREY

THE BUREAUCRATS and engineers who run China’s booming hydropower sector will be in listening mode in April when the world descends on Beijing for the second International Conference on Hydropower Technology & Equipment. The theme of this year’s government-sponsored gathering – ‘Sustainable China Hydropower Industry’ – reflects worries about the environmental impact of recent massive hydropower projects in China.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

WHILE net revenues for tobacco product sales in some key countries in South America have experienced growth in the last few years, in general the regional tobacco product market is stagnant. Producers blame increased excise rates, public health awareness, and new and more rigidly enforced regulations for the gloom.…

BY MARK ROWE

THE RUSH to tap the oil and gas riches of the Caspian Sea has seen governments, the European Union (EU) and producers shuttling back and forth between the major players in the region, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan.…