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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LONGTIME sluggish continental construction market is now booming, according to European Union (EU) statistical agency Eurostat, with a year-on-year February increase in activity for the whole of the EU of 9.2%. What is especially noteworthy is that construction activity growth in the western European Eurozone was even higher – 10.4%.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced heavy fines against the Polish government (Euro 7.7 million) and the Czech Republic (Euro 6.2 million) for the hoarding of excess meat stocks ahead of their countries joining the European Union (EU) in 2004.…

BY ANDREW CAVE
THE UNITED Kingdom and Irish Republic governments had anti-terror finance frameworks long before this issue climbed global agendas in the wake of the September 11 attacks in the USA. The fight against terrorism in Northern Ireland over the past 40 years saw to that.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels
THE GERMAN government is developing a compensation package with its national road haulage industry as the European Commission prepares to apply stricter fuel emission limits from 2009 under the Euro V programme.

Berlin has drafted several proposals to compensate road goods transport operators, two of which have already won Commission’s approval as an allowable subsidy under its usually strict state aid rules.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels
THE GERMAN government is developing a compensation package with its national road haulage industry as the European Commission prepares to apply stricter fuel emission limits from 2009 under the Euro V programme.

Berlin has drafted several proposals to compensate road goods transport operators, two of which have already won Commission’s approval as an allowable subsidy under its usually strict state aid rules.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CENTRAL American alliance of major international pharmaceutical manufacturers have called for Guatemala to be placed on a special United States watch list for allegedly breaking intellectual property commitments under the US-Central America-Dominican Republic free trade agreement (CAFTA-DR).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN AMERICAN anti-piracy group has welcomed a flood of arrests in China of cigarette counterfeiters, saying such tough action is crucial to clean up this intellectual property crime hotspot. A report from the International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition has hailed figures from China’s state tobacco monopoly that more than 1,700 cigarette counterfeiters were arrested during 2006.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has unveiled further data underlining the risk to human health posed by widespread contamination of broiler chicken flocks across Europe with the pathogen salmonella. In its latest figures, which back earlier alarming data about salmonella contamination within egg production systems, EFSA said that in 2005-6, almost a quarter – 23.7% – of EU broiler (meat) flocks were contaminated with salmonella.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MAJOR American golf clothing chain has failed to secure European Union (EU)-wide trademark rights to its name, because European Court of Justice (ECJ) judges found it insufficiently distinctive. Golf USA Inc franchises more than 100 golf clothing and equipment stores in 32 US states and 11 other countries: Belgium, Canada, Chile, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Ireland, South Korea, Mexico, Spain and Sweden.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) summit has agreed a 10% binding minimum target for all 27 member states regarding the share of biofuels in overall EU transport petrol and diesel consumption by 2020. The agreement, which followed weeks of political manoeuvreing, has however been qualified in that biofuels must be “introduced in a cost-efficient way”.…