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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE MITIGATION measures taken by European Union (EU) utilities and member states to deal with the Russia-Ukraine gas crisis were effective, the EU’s Gas Coordination Group has concluded. Consisting of gas industry representatives from the EU’s 27 countries and chaired by the European Commission, the group concluded that protective steps taken "allowed most countries to successfully manage the situation in a way which is the least disruptive for their consumers".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has proposed relaxing a tight limit on residues of the pesticide thiram on bananas, which would enable Belgium’s Taminco NV to import the fruit from Ecuador, Costa Rica,

Columbia, Panama, Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, Venezuela, and Brazil.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has been advised to push for an increase in the maximum size and weight of lorries allowed across the European Union (EU) – maybe to 60 tonnes and 25.25 metres – by a report that will kick off an official review of these rules.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH

A LITTLE noticed event took place in Brussels last month when the European Union (EU) Court of Auditors awarded the president of the European Parliament Hans-Gert Pöttering its annual Gold Medal, citing "the co-operation between the two institutions in safeguarding the interests of the European taxpayers."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) consumer safety alert service RAPEX has reported the withdrawal from sale in Belgium of a Democratic Republic of the Congo-made whitening cream – Topclaire Plus. Its use of hydroquinone breaks the EU cosmetics directive. RAPEX has also reported a withdrawal from sale in Ireland of China-made ‘GIRLZ’ children’s cosmetics sets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AS 2009 dawns, the European Union’s (EU) renewable energy sector knows that it has truly entered the mainstream of EU utility markets, its growth being sanctioned by ambitious legislation approved before Christmas.

After more than a year of debates, the European Parliament and EU ministers have approved a new EU directive imposing mandatory national targets for the 27 member states regarding the portion of their gross final consumption of energy in 2020 coming from renewable sources.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DESPITE the binge drinking, fatty fast food, appalling public transport and bad weather, Britons have less medical hypertension than Italians, despite their sunshine, excellent diet, red wine and general supposed joie de vivre. That is the verdict of a European Union (EU)-funded research project IMMIDIET.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CUTTING-EDGE research discovering that yeast actually behaves socially may offer brewers a way of controlling yeast-clumping and control how long yeast should remain in a brew. Scientists from the USA, Belgium and France have discovered that yeast cells with the gene FLO1 will stick together to protect against threats, which includes alcohol and antibiotics.…

BY PAUL RIGG

ROBBERIES, competition from immigrants and the state of the economy are the issues of most pressing concern for Spanish hauliers, according to drivers interviewed in truck stops on the outskirts of Madrid by Commercial Motor.

"I woke up with my kidneys and head hurting like I’d drunk a bottle of whisky," said Elias Calyo, 46, from Andalucia in the south of Spain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE OLD 15 member European Union (EU) will hit its Kyoto Protocol collective target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 8% for the period 2008-2012 from 1990 levels, but only by financing pollution cuts in poor countries abroad.…