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Keith Nuthall
CELEBRATED European Union (EU) whistleblower Paul van Buitenen is back working at the European Commission, after one year of personal leave, being posted in the same floor as his new boss, internal affairs Commissioner Neil Kinnock. The posting has raised a few eyebrows at Brussels, given that Mr Kinnock has had an unhappy relationship with the Dutchman, over a dossier of corruption allegations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

Duke Energy Corp, a diversified US energy company based in Charlotte, is in discussions with “several potential buyers” for its European natural gas business, the company has announced. It gave no details of the possible buyers or price.…

Alan Osborn
2) The European Commission has approved the acquisition of full

control of Refresco Holding, a Dutch manufacturer of private-label soft

drinks, by the British venture capital company 3i Group plc. The EC said it

was satisfied there were no competition problems arising and cleared the

deal under its simplified procedure.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ROYAL Dutch/Shell Group has said its US$1.16 billion joint venture with Sibir Energy to tap west Siberian oil fields was told by Russia to halt work because of alleged breaches of licence conditions and Russian objections to changes in the companies’ development plans.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FEARS that avian flu may have spread from the Netherlands to poultry in Germany have sparked movement controls on live poultry, hatching eggs and fresh, unprocessed and non-heat-treated poultry manure or litter. They cannot be moved within the Lander of North Rhine-Westphalia because of an unconfirmed outbreak amongst chickens in Schwalmtal, near the Dutch border.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s anti-fraud office OLAF has been called in to investigate financial corruption at the EU’s Committee of the Regions, the Brussels body which represents the view of local government across Europe.

Its investigators are checking allegations made by Dutch socialist MEP Michiel van Hulten to the European Parliament that the record of financial probity at the CoR “can only be described as alarming.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
The European Commission has approved a “full-function joint venture” between two Dutch companies: ABN AMRO Bank which is active in the provision of financial services, and Delta Lloyd, part of the Aviva group, an underwriter and distributor of insurance products with other financial services activities.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s competition directorate-general has decided to close its probe into the alleged refusal by Dutch gas company Gasunie to grant access to its pipeline network to the Norwegian subsidiary of US oil and gas producer Marathon in the 1990’s.…

BY MARK ROWE
KNITWEAR giant Benetton is to employ ‘smart tag’ tracking technology with microchip transmitters that allow the company to trace garments at its stores from their point of manufacture to the moment they are sold.

Benetton’s Sisley line of clothing will contain a radio frequency ID tag that enables the retailer to learn the status of its inventory at a glance and make restocking decisions quickly.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITISH architects are among the most lightly regulated in the European Union (EU), with their Danish, Irish, Dutch and Swedish colleagues enjoying a similarly light regulatory burden, according to a European Commission-funded survey, promoting liberalisation in Europe’s professions.…