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BY ALAN OSBORN

IN today’s world of globalised and increasingly competitive markets Europe’s food and drink industries need enlightened regulation if they are to meet accepted international standards for safety, additives, labelling and environmental responsibility.

There can be too much of it of course.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament has amended incoming European Union (EU) duty free legislation so air passengers making transfer flights within the EU ahead of a final flight to a non-EU airport can buy duty free. This changes European Commission proposals to block such travellers from making duty free purchases at the first airport they visit, treating it as an intra-EU flight.…

BY RUSSELL BERMAN

THE US president-elect, Barack Obama, will take office later this month (Jan 20) having promised sweeping changes to America’s energy policy. This includes aggressive regulations on carbon emissions to combat climate change and substantially increased government funding for alternative energy with the aim of creating a new "green" sector of the American economy devoted to the development of renewable energy, energy efficiency, clean coal and other sources.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INCOMING early 2009 European Union (EU) presidency of the Czech Republic will push hard to secure agreement over the EU’s proposed climate change package, should the current French presidency fail to broker a deal in December. Prague’s climate change envoy James Hunt (NOTE – NAME IS CORRECT – NOT CZECH) has told a Paris conference that then "the Czech presidency [would] make every effort to achieve adoption in the early months of 2009."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs will use his last year in office to push for the creation of an EU-wide energy regulator with real power. Speaking while the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers debate a hybrid regulatory system for EU energy producers, Piebalgs has said he wants a strong EU regulator to control Europe’s energy giants.…

BY SARAH BROWN

WHEN US President-elect Barack Obama takes office this January 20, the transition of power may halt plans for a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada and could impede the progress of new nuclear energy development across America.…

BY ERIC LYMAN

SPEAKING to the Petroleum Review, the United Nations’ top climate change official has urged oil and gas companies to stay focused on sustainability despite the world economic turmoil, and predicted that the coming years will reward efficiency more than ever.…

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 MICHAEL ROSTON

ENVIRONMENTAL health policy has been a battleground during George W Bush’s eight years as US president, with advocates for a science-based approach to policymaking charging the White House with engineering policies that favored business interests at the expense of the American people.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE LIKELIHOOD of agreement over the European Union’s (EU) climate change package at this week’s EU summit has been made clear at a European Parliament debate. With heads of government being asked to cut a deal in Brussels on Thursday and Friday (11-12 Dec), MEPs debated last Thursday the narrowing of options their leaders would face.…