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BY KEITH NUTHALL

CONCERN over the collapse of global recycling markets for plastics and other materials has been stressed by the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers for the environment. It backed a report supplied by the EU’s current Czech presidency, and released a communiqué where ministers "noted the need for short- and long-term measures" to deal with the problem.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers are pushing for more flexibility over plans to insist that existing large combustion plants (including power plants) follow current Best Available Techniques (BAT) on pollution by 2016. The move would come in planned reforms to the EU’s integrated pollution control and prevention directive (also known as the industrial emissions directive).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN END could be drawing near to the long debate over the extent to which major European gas and electricity companies should unbundle their production and distribution. A delegation of European Parliament members and the Czech presidency of the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers have struck a detailed compromise deal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE PRESIDENT of the Brewers of Europe organisation Alberto da Ponte has warned of a "sharp decline in the beer market" across Europe. He told a Brussels symposium: "The recession…taken with other events, such as widespread and recently-introduced smoking bans in pubs and restaurants, is having a very negative impact."…

BY MARK ROWE, ALAN OSBORN, CRISTINA MUNTEAN and KEITH NUTHALL

BRITAIN has long been something of a laggard when it comes to district heating. The only significant growth was mainly oil-fired network in local authority housing during the 1960s and 70s.…

BY MARK ROWE

AS book reading online enters the mainstream, one question that has plagued academic and cultural journals for years has re-emerged: digital obsolescence. Publishers are concerned about keeping pace with technological advances and preserving access to digital material.

No sooner, and at significant expense, is literature scanned and digitally secured in a given format, than it risks being overtaken by the latest storage versions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SENIOR Brussels diplomats have been told to revise the proposed Euro 5 billion energy infrastructure building plan drafted by the European Commission to help kickstart Europe’s economy from its current slump.

The EU Council of Ministers (general affairs) released a communiqué saying "adjustments of certain aspects will still be necessary."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, EMMA JACKSON and ALAN OSBORN

FEW things say more about the growing enthusiasm for nuclear power than the rush of young students eager to make a career in the industry. It is happening mainly in America but other countries are now beginning to see the same development.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, EMMA JACKSON and ALAN OSBORN

IN the early 1990s the nuclear power industry faced a bleak outlook. High profile accidents such as in Chernobyl and Three Mile Island in, Pennsylvania, the USA, had raised public concern about the safety of the industry to all time high.…

BY LUCY JONES

KNITWEAR featuring Barack Obama’s image stole the limelight at the Paris fashion week last autumn but whether the love will be returned to the global knitwear industry has yet to be seen.

Indeed, there is cause for concern, because Obama used protectionist rhetoric on the campaign trail.…