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BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRITISH fishermen are facing more duty-free import competition, with the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers agreeing to allow salted and dried coalfish, common whelk and crab from the Faroe Islands into the EU without any tariffs. The Faroes remain outside the EU, despite being part of the Kingdom of Denmark.…

By Keith Nuthall

European academics are preparing to gather at a high level conference to discuss the problems being caused to higher education by a sharp decline in the European population. The debates at the European University Association (EUA) conference comes as the latest figures from European Union (EU) statistical agency Eurostat confirm the number of young people in European countries is already shrinking and will get smaller.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WINDSHIELDS are not such something to look through, say European scientists: they also act as loud speakers, attracting and magnifying noise created by an auto, reflecting the racket back at drivers and passengers alike. This fact has made researchers in the European Union (EU)-funded InMAR (‘Intelligent Materials for Active Noise Reduction’) project consider how to change the materials making windshields, so that they absorb noise rather than amplify it.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

OVERWHELMING support for a European Union (EU)-wide technical standard for hydrogen vehicles has been secured at the European Parliament. MEPs voted yesterday (2/9) by 644 votes-to-two approving a European Commission proposed set of rules for building these next generation vehicles.…

By Alan Osborn

Research in the EU countries is too national in focus to be fully effective says the European Commission and this poses a "major obstacle" to the ambitious Lisbon strategy for giving the EU a global lead in technology by 2010.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE EUROPEAN Commission has responded to growing demand in the science community for unfettered access to research by launching a pilot project to make European Union (EU)-funded research in seven key subject areas available free of charge on the Internet.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CLIMATE change will cause increasing water shortages in the Mediterranean region, a report released by the European Environment Agency, the World Health Organisation, and the European Union’s (EU) Joint Research Centre has claimed. It warned: "Increasing water demand for agriculture in the Mediterranean region will lead to unsustainable competition for water with tourism and households."…

BY WILLIAM BARNES

A WOMAN brushes past palm fronds into the pastel lights of a busy Bangkok salon. At the counter she turns what looks to be a flawless, ivory face towards a woman in a vaguely medical uniform: "Aiyee! I am getting so old.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A POTENTIAL obstacle holding up the commercial release of hydrogen-fuelled cars onto the European Union (EU) market has been cleared with the European Parliament approving an EU-wide technical standard for hydrogen vehicles. MEPs were concerned that without such rules, each 27 EU member government might approve contrasting standards, preventing hydrogen models from being sold across Europe.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

CONSUMERS are getting fatter and more fitness conscious at the same time, prompting confectionery manufacturers to think hard about squaring the circle of health and indulgence when designing and marketing their products.

CAOBISCO, which represents the European Union’s (EU) chocolate, biscuit and confectionery industries, has traditionally taken a robust line about the benefits confectionery can bring to diets, signing up to the EU’s self-regulating plan for curbing obesity, announced last year.…