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THE EUROPEAN Commission has made its first formal call for proposals under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), to help finance key European Union (EU) energy infrastructure projects. In this round of subsidies, EUR200 million will be made available for projects designed to eliminate structural bottlenecks impeding the flow of energy between EU countries.…

It is high time universities started to measure more what achieve in student learning, and less in enrolment, the Presidents’ Forum of the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) has been told. The president of the Netherlands’ Maastricht University’s, Professor Jo Ritzen, referenced an American study in 2011 which found that many USA university and college students did not learn much at all.…

India’s cotton production for the 2015-16 procurement session has slumped by 16% due to insufficient rainfall in several parts of the country, notably a severe drought in the western state of Maharashtra, a key cotton producing area.

Crop failures and continuing water scarcity have damaged the rural economy with tragic consequences.…

Wholesalers and their suppliers are overwhelmingly in favour of the UK remaining within the European Union (EU) despite frustrations over issues including corruption and overweening red tape from Brussels’ bureaucracy.

As the UK’s June 23 in-out referendum on the EU approaches, minds have been focussing on how the key areas of cost, labour mobility and common regulation might affect the overall wholesale picture – as well as supply segments including food, drinks and tobacco.…

CONSUMERS should eat more vegetables, but less meat and fish, according to new dietary advice issued on March 31 by the Netherlands Nutrition Centre Foundation (NNC – Stichting Voedingscentrum Nederland), the government’s food advisory body.

The key change is recommending a daily dose of 250 grammes (g) instead of 200g of vegetables.…

THE SALE of airport assets by Europe’s financially-pressed governments since last recession bit has significantly increased the number of European airports fully- or partly-owned within the private sector.

A report from industry association Airport Council International Europe (ACI EUROPE) has noted that 41% of 500 of its member European airports (205 of them) now have private shareholders, up from just 22% in 2010.…

Ministers from 41 countries worldwide have pledged more robust enforcement of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development’s (OECD’s) convention on combating bribery of foreign public officials in international business transactions. The pledge came in a declaration on the 17-year-old convention at an OECD Anti-Bribery ministerial meeting held yesterday (March 16) in Paris.…

BRITAIN votes on June 23 about whether the UK should stay or leave the European Union (EU). The stakes could not be higher for the food and drink industry. Food & Drink Technology News has spoken to experts who support or reject the idea of the UK leaving the EU to see what they think about a Brexit.…

The European Commission should not accept the voluntary ‘traffic light’ food labelling system used in the UK where ‘red’ means high, ‘amber’ medium, and ‘green’ low levels of fat, sugar, salt and calories, seven European Union (EU) member states are arguing.…

INDIA’S decentralised power generation industry is expected to be boosted by a central government initiative to bring electricity to thousands of villages, while investing in renewable power sources. “The government is committed to achieving 100% village electrification by May 1, 2018,” said Arun Jaitley, the Indian finance minister on February 29, while presenting the national government budget for the financial year 2016-17.…