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BY MARK ROWE, in Munich

FOOD allergies can only be truly understood if they are studied at a pan-European level, according to scientists at a key European science convention. Dr Sian Astley, of the Institute of Food Research (IFR), in Norwich, said that only by studying allergies across different countries could the scale of the problem be understood.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) wine makers have attacked European Commission proposals to reform the EU wine common market regime – targeting with hostility plans to increase grubbing up. All participants at a European Parliament hearing agreed the EU wine system needs change, given current over-production and poor sales.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

YOUNG adults in Germany – long seen as Europe’s technological powerhouse – are turning away from science and engineering, with just 16% of tertiary educated professionals in these fields being aged 25-34. The figures are the worst in the European Economic Area (EEA), and show that without change, Germany could face a shortage of engineers and scientists in the medium term.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) anti-fraud unit OLAF is always at the centre of Brussels’ efforts to suppress the torrents of financial crime that mar its well-intentioned efforts. OLAF’s old boss has been reappointed, but there’s still trouble afoot. Keith Nuthall reports.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

IN the space of less than three years the German cigarette market has gone from being Europe’s most stable, profitable and legislation-free into one beset by obstacles almost everywhere you look. In the words of an independent report just issued by the market number two British American Tobacco, the industry has "overnight….found…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

A SIGNIFICANT boost in funding from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will speed the challenging switchover from ageing nuclear power stations in central and eastern Europe (CEE) to a cleaner, more efficient and more sustainable energy scene in these new and aspiring entrants to European Union (EU) membership.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE ISSUE of whether public money should fund stem cell research is set to become a controversial topic again, with funding restrictions being tabled by MEPs for the European Union’s (EU) oncoming seventh framework programme (FP7). These include banning "research activities intended to create human embryos solely for the purpose of research or for the purpose of stem cell procurement".…

BY MARK ROWE

THE ONLY public university in the would-be independent Balkan nation of Kosovo has finally elected a senate, a move that observers hope may ultimately help to diffuse ethnic tensions in the country’s higher education system.

The impasse over the composition of the University of Pristina senate was provoked by a political power struggle between the country’s leading parties, and was linked to Kosovo’s impending independence from Serbia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INSTITUTIONS of the European Union (EU) have many critics, but one thing is undeniable about the EU: it has a hell of a lot of money to spend.

And this year the EU is setting its medium-term budget for 2007 to 2013, so industries such as the auto-manufacturing sector are lobbying hard for their sectors to be a spending priority.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

TARGETED energy research projects of all kinds will command budgets of Euro 2.2 billion from 2007-13 under a draft rewritten European Union (EU) seventh framework programme (FP7). Other targeted research budgets under the Euro 54.5 billion scheme proposed by the European Commission include Euro 1.8 billion on environmental studies and Euro 9 million on IT, the largest budget for focused research work.…