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KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations World Food Programme has launched an unprecedented health awareness campaign to persuade Ethiopian truckers to reduce their sexual promiscuity, because of the risk that they will be struck down by AIDS.

The programme will focus on the 2,300 Ethiopian truck drivers that it has hired to deliver relief food from the port of Djibouti to the interior of their war and drought ravaged country, which is also a centre of AIDS infection; estimates say that 10.6 per cent of the population is HIV positive.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN heads of government will be asked to back a work programme to integrate environmental concerns at the heart of EU energy policy. The resolution, to be tabled at the next EU summit, in Göteborg, Sweden, on June 15-16, was approved by the latest meeting of the Council of Ministers for energy and industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has returned to the political fray over tobacco advertising. Bloodied from its experience at the European Court of Justice, yet apparently unbowed, it has proposed a fresh directive which seeks to ban companies from buying publicity in the print media, radio and the Internet.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation has launched a bid to encourage its member countries to adopt the kind of tobacco control legislation that was recently adopted by the European Union, In a monograph called “Advancing Knowledge on Regulating Tobacco Products,” the WHO has called for an overhaul of the existing testing methods for tar, nicotine and other ingredients.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation has claimed that national governments have a duty under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, to introduce tough anti-smoking regulations, that would hinder tobacco companies from marketing product to young people and prevent them from being exposed to passive smoking.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
LOCAL authorities have been asked to apply for grants from a Euro 2.5 million budget run by the European Commission’s DG environment. Money is available for projects that focus on climate change, sustainable development, forestry, publicising EU environmental policies and animal experiments, among other areas.…

KEITH NUTHALL
GIVEN the difficulty that the British haulage industry has in recruiting new drivers, the last thing that it needs – some might say – would be to make it harder for would-be haulers to get behind the steering wheel and drive.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has attempted to speed up preparations to launch the European Food Authority, by setting up an interim scientific advisory forum that will provide expert advice on food policy, ahead of the establishment of a permanent committee.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has ducked making a potentially controversial ruling on the legality under EU freedom of trade rules of the Swedish laws banning alcohol advertising.

Judges had heard a case referred by the Stockholm district court, which had been brought by Sweden’s consumer ombudsman against a food and drink magazine Gourmet, which had carried ads for red wine and whisky.…

BY KATE REW
A MORATORIUM on the drilling of oil and gas reserves in the American portion of the Great Lakes could be lifted this autumn, just as President George Bush unveils his plans to dramatically increase the US search for new energy reserves.…