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BY PACIFICA GODDARD

The most important markets for bottled water have traditionally been developed economies like Western Europe and the United States. However, growth in these markets has recently flattened out, exacerbated by the global economic crisis and growing environmental concerns over the product.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ANIMAL welfare will be a key topic in a wholesale review of the European Union’s (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) launched this week by the European Commission. Speaking to the European Parliament’s agriculture committee on Monday (April 12), new EU agriculture Commissioner Dacian Ciolo?…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank, is to buy CDN$7.5 million of equity in Canadian-owned Antares Minerals Inc to back a copper exploration project in Peru, where it plans to establish a mine. The money will fund pre-feasibility studies, plus environmental and social programmes and assessments for Toronto area-based Antares’ Haquira project, in a remote part of the Apurimac region, southern Peru.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

ON the face of it, the UK, with other leading western European Union (EU) countries, leads the pack in terms of drawing up and submitting its River Basin Management (RBM) plans to the European Commission – the key first stage requirement of the EU’s Water Framework Directive (WFD).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has signalled it is unlikely to intervene to prevent the proposed takeover of Ukraine’s gas pipeline network by Russia’s Gazprom. Displaying his relatively relaxed attitude to closer energy links with Moscow, new German EU energy Commissioner Günter Oettinger told a press conference: "The decision has to come between Kiev and Moscow and not in Brussels."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission today formally launched a major review of the European Union’s (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) with a call for ideas on making food consumers more aware of its affect. Speaking to the European Parliament’s agriculture committee this afternoon (April 12), new EU agriculture Commissioner Dacian Ciolo?…

BY MONIKA HANLEY

THE BALTIC States and their eastern neighbours have long been viewed as a cheap supply of labour and goods to the rich countries within the European Union (EU), but now local companies and governments are looking to expand biofuel production to satisfy both growing domestic and export demand.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ESTABLISHED cosmetics firms cannot tell Google to ban the use of their trademarks by rivals as keywords in search engine services, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled. Judges said Louis Vuitton Malletier could not require Google to prevent third parties using its mark in its ‘AdWords’ service, allowing rivals’ websites to appear as highlighted links in searches on the French company’s name.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE SWEDISH and Austrian governments have been given an additional year to spend the Euro 15.6 million in earmarked European Union (EU) subsidies for the auto sector previously announced by the European Commission.

These payments – Euro 9.8 million for Sweden and Euro 5.7 million for Austria – come from the EU’s Globalisation Adjustment Fund, which is designed to help industries hit by unavoidable international competition.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

TALKS between the United States and the European Union (EU) on deepening their ‘open skies’ agreement will focus on the key question of allowing free trans-Atlantic investment within both sides’ aviation sectors. EU ministers have been advised by the European Commission that negotiations in Madrid on February 15-17 made "significant progress" on common "environmental protection, labour, [and] competition rules and reciprocal recognition of regulatory decisions."…