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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 MARK ROWE

ONE of the major elements of the 2004 enlargement of the European Union (EU) was its intended expansion to these new member states of the Schengen agreement, which phases out checks at shared borders and allows free movement for all within the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD Bank is granting US$11 million to the Kyrgyz Republic to help upgrade combined-heat-and-power plants in its major cities of Bishkek and Osh to help the hydro-power dependent country deal with poor rainfall and sub-zero temperatures. These urban plants consume natural gas, fuel oil and coal and need new equipment, materials and spare parts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

TRADITIONAL Czech beer has been added to the European Union’s (EU) geographical indication register, preventing beer makers from outside the Czech Republic using ‘?eské pivo’ (Czech beer) in their marketing.

Under the registration now approved by the European Commission, the special way that Czech beer is made is detailed – see http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:2008:016:0014:0022:EN:PDF.…

BY MARK GODFREY

TO the casual observer in Beijing there is plenty of proof that China’s market for recyclable waste has crashed. The army of waste collectors that normally patrols the city’s thoroughfares has visibly thinned over the past two month.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has signalled it is prepared to allow privately-run park-and-ride systems to get public subsidies, because of the environmental benefits they being. It announced it would allow Euro 6.5 million of grants to be paid by the Czech government to such a scheme in the region of St?ední…

BY ALAN OSBORN

INTRODUCTION

About 10 years ago the American distiller JB Wagoner decided to market a fiery liquor made from the cactus-like agave plants growing in the hills on his estate at Temecula in California. He called it "temequila." It soon became known as "the American tequila," proving indistinguishable in taste, texture and effect from the well-known Mexican drink.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

UPDATED reports on illicit trafficking of nuclear materials show that the recovery of these potentially dangerous items is becoming rarer. This rate fell to 25% of all reported incidents between 2004-2007 says the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) research network Eureka has launched an innovative research project developing the plasma (ionised heated gas) treatment of textiles, which can improve their printability, adhesive properties, impermeability and absorbance. The Czech Republic’s Spolsin Spol and Sintex, are planning to work with Poland’s University Of Bilsko-Biala; and Wroclaw University Of Technology; along with the Slovak University Of Technology, in a Euro 1.14 million project lasting three years.…

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.…