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BY ALAN OSBORN
THE CARMEUSE Group of Liege, Belgium, one of the world’s largest producers of lime, is to strengthen its presence in eastern Europe with a major investment in Romania that is being supported by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).…

BY ALAN OSBORN
The creation of a European Public Prosecutor next year is among a number of

actions announced by the European Commission in its fight against fraud. In

its annual report the Commission claims to be slowly winning the battle,

saying there was a reduction of 20 per cent to 482 million euros in

financial “irregularities” in 2003.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that petrol station operators must take responsibility for oil and petrol leaks, unless they can demonstrate that the pollution is the fault of the oil company supplying their fuel. Its ruling, which is a precedent across the European Union (EU), came in a case involving Belgium’s Brussels capital region and Texaco.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INCOMING European Union (EU) Commissioner for research Janez Potocnik has declared he would be prepared to build an ITER-scale fusion reactor at Cadarache, France, if there is no international agreement on where to build the prototype. In answers to a European Parliament questionnaire, he said the EU “could consider launching the construction of the ITER at Cadarache…with those of its partners willing to be involved”, although only at the “very last resort”.…

BY MARK ROWE
AT first sight they would appear to be uneasy bedfellows. On the one hand, English Heritage, the British government’s advisory body with responsibility for the care and maintenance of the country’s historic environment; on the other, the Marxist-led government of the Indian state of West Bengal.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening to ask the European Court of Justice to levy daily recurring fines of Euro 1,000’s against eight European Union (EU) member countries failing to scrap bilateral ‘open skies’; deals with the USA. Despite being so ordered 18 months ago, Austria, Belgium, Britain, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg and Sweden have maintained their agreements while the Commission negotiates an EU-wide replacement.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) body that represents local and regional authorities has called on the European Commission to review its state aid guidelines to allow its members to subsidise low cost airlines working from regional airports, because of the economic development they promote.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening seven European Union (EU) countries with legal action at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for failing to apply EU law and give local companies the option of applying International Accounting Standard (IAS) 39 on financial instruments.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Committee of the Regions has called on the European Commission to review its state aid guidelines to allow councils to help low cost airlines work from regional airports, because of the resulting economic development.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ACCORDING to popular prejudice, Britons are work obsessed and driven, spending too many evenings in the office, while the French are lazy clock watchers, with an eye on that two hour lunch break – but this could be pure myth according to a European Union (EU) study.…