Search Results for: Belgium

BY EMMA JACKSON

CLOTHING and accessory consumers are fickle at the best of times, and trying to nail down their desires in the growing eco-fashion niche market is proving especially difficult as the industry moves toward environmental responsibility.

On the one hand consumers, (especially young people in mature western markets), are increasingly aware of the environmental and social footprints of fashion and textile production.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is fighting European Union (EU) member states who want to tightly restrict the use of creosote across Europe. It has proposed a regulation under the EU’s biocides directive saying creosote can be widely used, with appropriate protection for manufacturers, end-users and precautions to prevent creosote polluting watercourses.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH

HUNGARY, which currently holds the European Union’s (EU’s) rotating presidency, made a little noticed promise in January to put organised crime well and truly on the EU agenda. Commercial Crime International attended a Brussels conference where senior figures admitted the EU’s response has been far too weak.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A BELGIUM-coordinated research project, part-funded by the European Union, has developed novel ways of introducing enzymes into textile materials, giving them special biotechnological properties. The BIOTIC project (biotechnical functionalisation of (bio)polymeric textile surfaces), headed by the University of Ghent, worked on modifying and functionalising polyethylene terephthalate (PET) textile materials, altering their chemo-enzymatic surfaces and incorporating biocatalysts into fibres.…

BY LEE ADENDOORF, ALYSSA MCMURTRY, MAKKI MARSEILLES, and KEITH NUTHALL

GLOBAL olive oil manufacturing is on a roll, with the International Olive Council (IOC) saying 2009-10 world production was 3.02 million tonnes, a season-on-season increase of 354,500 tonnes (+13%). This would be the second best olive oil production year ever, next only to the record of 3.17 million tonnes produced in 2003/04.…

BY Karryn Miller

An innovative foreign higher education park scheme in South Korea is set to proceed, even though the worldwide recession has caused some overseas universities to postpone plans to locate branches at the Songdo Global University Campus.

Full report on University World News site.…

BY MARK ROWE and E BLAKE BERRY

GIVEN Poland’s reputation as a reliable member of the international community, it is perhaps surprising Poland was (until 2009 at least) reckoned by the European Commission and the US Department of State to have one of the EU’s poorest records for tackling money laundering.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BILATERAL civil aviation deals struck with Russia by Belgium, Britain, Denmark, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Sweden are being challenged legally by the European Commission. It fears the agreements enable Russia to charge punitive Siberia over-flight fees to these countries’ airlines at a variety of rates.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THERAPY dogs can be a great nursing aid, but new European Union (EU)-funded research has shown how pure bred dogs can be powerful resource for investigating the sources of disease in human patients. The fact is that dogs suffer from many of the same diseases as their two-legged owners, and it is a lot easier to investigate the genetic causes of such illnesses in pure bred dogs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, ALAN OSBORN, MJ DESCHAMPS, MARK ROWE, BRENDAN DE BEER and MAKKI MARSEILLES

IT has been a real slog – persuading the European Union’s (EU) 27 member states to implement detailed plans to manage their water resources on a river basin basis, rather than artificial political boundaries bearing little relation to hydrology.…