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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE FREIGHT Transport Association (FTA) has challenged conclusions from the European Commission that the opening of Britain and other western European labour markets to workers from eastern European countries "has been positive on balance".

Brussels’ Employment in Europe 2008 report claims the influx of mobile labour from the 10 eastern European countries that have joined the EU "has not led to serious disturbances on the labour market."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE POLISH government has proposed to the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers that upper and lower limits for CO2 permits within the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme should be established. Supported by the Baltic States, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia, Warsaw has argued that a price floor would allow renewable energy companies to continue investing without worrying about a collapse in carbon prices: under the current ETS, prices have fallen far from expectations.…

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 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 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 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 Alan Osborn

Three young researchers, from Poland, Slovakia and Britain, were awarded the top prizes in the EU Contest for Young Scientists in Copenhagen on September 25th against competition from national scientific prize-winners from 39 European countries plus Brazil, Canada, China, Mexico, New Zealand and the USA.…

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 MARTINA MARE?KOVÁ

THE CZECH haulage industry is struggling to replace retiring drivers, and a planned government measure to ban motorway lorry driving on Friday afternoons between 3pm and 6pm could make the situation even worse.

This restriction, said Martin ?pry?ar,…