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BY Alan Osborn

Europe’s top research universities have urged the EU (European Union) to take finance, competition and entrepreneurship fully into account when charting a future for the innovation union. Universities have an important role in innovation "they do not operate in isolation but are an intrinsic part of a larger innovation ecosystem," says the League of European Research Universities (LERU).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Medicines Agency (EMA) has released a guide explaining how it can help companies develop paediatric medicines – http://www.ema.europa.eu/docs/en_GB/document_library/Template_or_form/2009/09/WC500003844.docENDS;

*It has also published a database containing information on studies of children’s medicines authorised in the European Union (EU) that were completed before 2007 – http://art45-paediatric-studies.ema.europa.eu/clinicaltrials/;…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has backed UN plans to create a global fund to adapt ports to rising sea levels, with contributions from the shipping industry linked to ship fuel consumption. ICS external relations director Simon Bennett said fund resources could be directed by the International Maritime Organisation to port environmental projects in developing countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CLIMATE control concerns will be integrated into all investment and advisory services offered by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank. It has created a new ‘Climate Business Group’ to undertake this work and grow IFC climate-related investments to more than US dollars USD3 billion within three years.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

THE NUCLEAR industry could become increasingly vulnerable to cyber threats as nuclear power plants begin to replace their incredibly secure – and old – analogue systems with modern, digital and relatively unsecure equipment, experts claim.

"The reason the nuclear industry is doing well right now is because its equipment is quite old; it doesn’t have the complexities that makes it vulnerable.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, WANG FANGQING

AUTO dealers in Britain will certainly see the affect of the European Union’s (EU) recent signature of a free trade deal with South Korea. Once ratification procedures have been cleared, the EU’s import duties on cars made in South Korea (mostly 10%) will disappear within 60 days.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved a new monitoring system for EU wholesale markets for natural gas, with the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) being charged with detecting and deterring market abuse and manipulation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NEW competitors for shipping gas to the European Union (EU) from the Caucasus are emerging, while Turkmenistan has announced a major new gas find. The Turkmen government is claiming guaranteed gas supplies to Europe, by quadrupling exports over the next 20 years, after unveiling a major new gas field.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has been alarmed by coordinated ‘bot-net’ attacks on computer networks in Britain, Estonia, Georgia, France, and elsewhere, and is beefing up its cyber-defences. Keith Nuthall reports.

IT takes a lot to spark the lumbering bureaucratic behemoth known as the European Union (EU) into hasty action.…

BY NADJA DROST

THE SURGING price of gold has unleashed a gold rush in Colombia, and international criminal networks are using the burgeoning trade in the precious metal to clean the proceeds of crime. In a country with as intimate a connection with the illicit drugs trade and terrorism as Colombia, the risks posed to anti-money laundering authorities are significant.…