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Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development will soon be inviting bids for contracts to improve Kazakhstan’s Atyrau International Airport. It is lending the airport company US$24.5 million, which will pay for the widening and strengthening of the runway, taxiways and apron areas, plus the replacement of airfield lighting, including floodlighting.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the proposed merger between

Ernst & Young France and most of Andersen France’s business, finding that

although the deal would create France’s biggest auditor for large and

quoted companies there was “no danger of the creation of a single dominant

position.”…

ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the acquisition by the Italian weaving machinery manufacturer Promatech SpA, of Sulzer Textil, the textile machinery division of the Swiss company Sulzer Ltd.

Competition approval was given after Promatech agreed to divest itself of rapier weaving machines operations in Verona in Italy and Solothurn in Switzerland.…

Keith Nuthall
THE TEXTILE sector was a copybook blot in an otherwise positive report on open markets and liberalisation in the European Union, released recently by the World Trade Organisation. It concluded: “Pursuing trade liberalisation through multilateral, regional and bilateral initiatives, the European Union has maintained its markets largely open, except for textiles and agriculture.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A STAY of execution has been granted to American clothing exporters, after the European Union Council of Ministers decided it would postpone the implementation of a first round of protective duties, erected in retaliation to the US’ controversial safeguard duties on steel.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
NOT many items of legislation from Brussels have provoked quite such anger among farmers over the years as the nitrates directive, which seeks to protect water from nitrate pollution caused by the application of organic and inorganic fertilisers to agricultural land.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and PHILIP FINE

ALTHOUGH the US knitwear lobby is breathing a sigh of relief over the recently delayed European Union tariffs on knitted textiles and clothing, it is warning that job losses would follow any final decision to go ahead with retaliation to the US steel safeguard duties.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL initiative to cleanse the polluted Barents Sea of nuclear waste has been launched, with Euro 110 million being pledged by Russia, the European Commission, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. The Barents clean-up will be the first priority project of this Support Fund of the Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership; the sea, to the north of Russia and Norway, is commonly known as the largest repository of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste in the world.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FORMAL calls for research proposals from energy companies and institutes have been released by the European Commission, which has Euro 198 million to spend this year on studies that promote sustainable energy. The funding comes from the recently agreed Euro 16.2 billion European Union (EU) Sixth Framework Programme for research, which runs until 2006.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A DYNAMIC online forum on European energy policy has been launched by an international consortium; the European Union-funded INTUSER website contains information about current energy issues and questionnaires allowing specialists and the public to contribute to policy debates. The three year project’s website includes special sections on alternative, renewable, fossil and nuclear energy.…