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BY KEITH NUTHALL

A DUTCH city initiative will provide the ultimate in environment-friendly drinks distribution – serving 65 drinks outlets by an electric boat. The service will be launched in 2010 in Utrecht, where a conventionally powered ‘beer boat’ already delivers drinks to bars and restaurants via a historic canal network, including beer from four local breweries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded research project called SonoDrugs has united universities and high-tech businesses in developing tiny, image-guided medicine capsules which could target medicines to where they are needed in a patient’s body. The aim of the innovation is conveying doses through blood vessels to the centre of an infection or disease, after which the drugs are activated by ultrasound pulses.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A PRECEDENT setting decision is expected from the European Commission on subsidising natural gas supplies to specific industries. Brussels has opened a formal investigation into tax exemptions offered by the Netherlands on gas used by Dutch ceramic producers.…

By Monica Dobie

A European Union (EU)-funded research project called SonoDrugs is developing tiny, image-guided medicine capsules conveying doses through blood vessels to the centre of an infection or disease, after which the drugs are activated by ultrasound pulses. This new technology is initially being developed for cardiovascular disease and cancer by the Euro 15.9 million project, which includes Dutch electronics giant Philips; Nanobiotix, of France; and Lipoid, of Germany; as well as academics from the University of Cyprus, University of Gent (Belgium), University of Helsinki, University of London, University of Tours (France), University Victor Segalen Bordeaux (France), University of Technology Eindhoven (the Netherlands), and the University of Udine (Italy).…

BY DAVID HAWORTH

A LITTLE noticed event took place in Brussels last month when the European Union (EU) Court of Auditors awarded the president of the European Parliament Hans-Gert Pöttering its annual Gold Medal, citing "the co-operation between the two institutions in safeguarding the interests of the European taxpayers."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved a proposed merger between Dutch dairy companies Campina and Friesland Foods, with conditions to avoid competition problems. Brussels allowed the deal after the merging companies offered to sell-off Friesland Foods’ fresh dairy product business and a part of Campina’s cheese business and two Campina long-life dairy drinks brands.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD, in Caracas; MARVIN HOKSTAM, in Paramaribo, JAMES FULLER, in Port of Spain

IT may seem like a good thing for fuel retailers to be based in country that is sitting on a bounty of fuel reserves. But that is not necessarily the case, as many Latin American and Caribbean retailers can testify.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has cleared the way for national governments in the European Union (EU) to insist that diesel-powered vehicles registered in that country be fitted with special filters reducing particulate matter emissions. Judges struck down a European Commission decision blocking a Netherlands law effectively insisting that such a filter be used on all Dutch-registered diesel cars, lorries and vans.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has struck down a European Commission decision blocking a Netherlands law effectively insisting diesel-powered vehicles registered in that country be fitted with filters reducing particulate matter emissions. Brussels claimed this was not a "proportionate" way of reducing pollution.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the takeover of Dutch baggage handling service and systems company Vanderlande Industries BV by fellow Netherlands company SHV Holdings NV, a diverse group with heavy equipment, energy and other interests. Brussels concluded after an inquiry that the deal would not pose competition problems in the European groundhandling sector.…