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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project called VASOPLUS is developing a new drug that can promote the formation of blood vessels in damaged hearts, without the usual side effects generated by such medicines. The initiative, which includes scientists from Belgium, Germany, Italy and South Africa, has been focusing on a signaling protein called ‘placental growth factor’ (PlGF), which controls blood formation within essential organs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union will not appeal against the World Trade Organisation disputes hearing ruling that backed an American complaint that Brussels has illegally blocked imports of genetically modified food during its moratorium on market approvals to 2003, and some continuing national bans by member states: in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and Luxembourg.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A SERIES of detailed and striking data-based images has been released by the European Environment Agency (EEA) starkly portraying western Europe’s density of development, and hence its exposure to environmental health problems. These make up the ‘Corine Land Cover 2000’ database, which offers information on land cover and land cover changes over the past decade in 32 European countries, using photo-interpretation of satellite images.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that compensation claimants for asbestos-contamination associated illness should receive awards calculated by taking their likely earning power in their home European Union (EU) country into account, even if they were working in another EU state when making the claim.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament has approved in principle a proposed European Union (EU) regulation which would allow police and other law enforcement officials within the EU’s Schengen open border area to inspect registration documentation held in all countries of this zone.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that compensation claimants for asbestos-contamination associated illness should receive awards calculated by taking their likely earning power in their home European Union (EU) country into account, even if they were working in another EU state when making the claim.…

BY CHRIS JONES, in Brussels, and KEITH NUTHALL

WORKERS laid off following Volkswagen’s closure of the Forest manufacturing plant in Belgium may be the first to benefit from a new Euro 500 million fund created to help European Union (EU) companies hit by problems caused through globalisation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

LORRIES already on the road in the European Union (EU) will be forced to retrofit blind-spot mirrors or other devices under new legislation proposed by the European Commission. It wants heavy goods vehicles of 3.5 tonnes or more, registered after 2004, retrofitted one year after entry into force of this proposed directive; HGVs registered after 2001, two years afterwards; and lorries registered after 1998, three years afterwards.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has announced spending and spending plans worth Euro 230 million to three major water utility projects. The bank has signed a deal to lend Euro 100 million to Cyprus’ Sewerage Board of Limassol-Amathus (SBLA), and is supplying a first tranche of Euro 70 million immediately, to enable its southern coast area to comply with the EU urban wastewater directive.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BELGIUM and an alliance of six other European Union (EU) member states are pushing for the EU’s food control committees to develop monitoring systems to prevent unauthorised GM food imports into Europe. Its move at the EU Council of Ministers follows the illicit import of unapproved GM American rice.…