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ICELAND AND NORWAY ARE EFFICIENT MEMBERS OF SCHENGEN ZONE - DESPITE LACK OF INFLUENCE OVER ITS RULES
BY MARK ROWE
THE AIRPORTS of Norway and Iceland are well suited to dealing with the impact of border-free travel with each other and many member states of the European Union (EU), having joined the EU’s frontierless Schengen-zone in 1999, abolished all border checks for travel to member countries in December 2001.…
RUSSIAN FEARS MAKE EASTERN EUROPEANS INTO GAS LIBERALISERS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DELICATE state of European Union (EU) and Russia diplomatic and energy relations has been illustrated starkly by the inclusion of eastern European gas interconnection projects within the European economic stimulus package. National governments of these new EU member states threatened to torpedo the entire agreement – seen as the lynchpin of European efforts to shake off the recession – if their gas schemes were not included.…
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S OPTIONS TO PROTECT US KNITTING INDUSTRY ARE LIMITED
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.…
INTRODUCTION - NUCLEAR ENERGY ANSWERS ITS CRITICS
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.…
NUCLEAR ENGINEERING HIGHER EDUCATION STRUGGLING TO KEEP UP WITH RENEWED DEMAND FOR ITS COURSES AND EXPERTISE
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.…
BRITAIN CAN LOOK TO THE CONTINENT FOR LESSONS ON DEVELOPING DISTRICT HEATING
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.…
PROFESSIONAL NURSING IN TRINIDAD CAN BE TOUGH, BUT THERE'S ALWAYS THE BEACH
BY JAMES FULLER
THE TWIN island republic of Trinidad & Tobago is many people’s idea of a tropical idyll but Sunita Kissoon, senior nurse/midwife at the Gulf View Medical Centre in San Fernando, says medical care in her country is fundamentally lacking when compared to the UK.…
WITH FUEL SALES DEPRESSED, EUROPE PETROL RETAILERS LOOK TO C-STORES TO MAKE UP TRADE
BY PHILIPPA JONES, in Paris; ANDREW CAVE, in Oxford; and SYMON ROSS, in Belfast
IT is a tough time in the European petrol retail market at present. High prices last year have been followed by a global recession. It is no wonder fuel sales are depressed.…
ECJ IMPEDES ANHEUSER-BUSCH 'BUD' TRADEMARK PLANS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) judges have erected a barrier impeding the plans of US brewer Anheuser-Busch to trademark the word ‘Bud’ across in all EU member states. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Court of First Instance has underlined the right of Anheuser’s Czech rival Bud?jovický…
BRUSSELS APPROVES CZECH AIRPORT PUBLIC HANDOUT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved a Czech regional government subsidy of Euro 11.15 million for improving facilities at the Czech Republic’s Ostrava airport, serving the country’s third largest city. The money will be spent until 2013, helping fund the acquisition of new boarding bridges, self-propelled aircraft boarding stairs, a tractor for moving aircrafts, a self-propelled baggage conveyer and a de-icing unit.…