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BY ALAN OSBORN
THE CARMEUSE Group of Liege, Belgium, one of the world’s largest producers of lime, is to strengthen its presence in eastern Europe with a major investment in Romania that is being supported by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Space Agency (ESA) is developing a service that could save the insurance industry expensive shipwreck policy payouts, updating coastal maritime maps from space. The Euro 1 million Coastchart project aims at improving charts of shifting sand, mud and gravel-banks that can move 100’s of metres annually.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to help fund 109 environmental innovation projects in 18 EU member countries with Euro 76 million of grants from the European Union (EU) 2004 LIFE environment programme. It said the projects applied “ground-breaking technologies” to tackle environmental problems.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is reconsidering the appointment of Swedish Professor Ragnar Rylander to its scientific committee on health and environmental risks, following political protests. The European Parliament claimed he was “found by the Swiss court of appeal…to have lied about secret links with the tobacco industry”.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
YOUNG people in Britain are more than twice as likely to die in road accidents between 10.00 pm and 2.00 am Friday to Saturday and during

the same hours Saturday to Sunday than at any other time of the week

according to figures released by the European Environmental Agency (EEA).…

BY DAVID HAWORTH
THE FORMER Czech prime minister and would-be European Commissioner for Employment, Vladimir Spidla, was given high marks by MEPs during a three hour grilling on his suitability for the job at the European Parliament last week. He stoutly defended the European Union’s (EU) so-called left-leaning “social model” while insisting that its application should be more flexible in future.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INCOMING European Commissioner for health and consumer affairs has shown signs in a European Parliament questionnaire that he could be as feisty as his predecessor, Ireland’s David Byrne, calling for an EU-wide ban on smoking in public.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ANTIMONY mine in Macedonia will be a focus of an international effort to prevent cross-border environmental threats in south-eastern Europe. The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) have agreed to cooperate on managing pollution risks from the Lojane Mine, which has also been a source of chromium.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A house designed by the European Space Agency using spacecraft technology may become the basis for the new German Antarctic station, Neumayer-III. The favoured design (shown here) is a sphere using the same ultra-light CFRP (carbon-fibre-reinforced-plastic) composites used in spacecraft.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EGYPTIAN government is to receive Euro 521,990 from the European Union (EU) to help improve the environmental performance of its tanneries. The money, from the EU’s LIFE Third Countries programme, will be paid to the Egyptian Ministry of Industry and Technological Development.…