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BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTERNATIONAL aid programmes are often regarded as a soft touch by criminals, who try to plunder their fat budgets, thinking that they are controlled by well-meaning innocents. Not so the World Bank; it has been investigating fraud in its development projects for years and it is getting tougher.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE POLLUTION of rivers and lakes used for tourism in the UK has been rising sharply, according to the latest bathing water report from the European Commission. It claims that for the year 2000, compliance with EU cleanliness standards for fresh water sites has fallen to 81.8 per cent, compared with 90.9 per cent in 1999 and 100 per cent in 1998.…

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BY ALAN OSBORN
EXPERTS from 54 countries and five international organisations are considering the results of a simulated nuclear accident at the French reactor at Gravelines, near the border with Belgium, across the English Channel. The exercise, which was carried out on May 22-23rd, was to test national and international procedures following a nuclear emergency, the co-ordination of information, and the effectiveness of advisory and decision-making mechanisms.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has called for the oncoming sixth framework programme on EU research to treat the development electronic money purses, especially through the use of 3G mobile phones, as a priority for funding. As it stands, the proposed plan would earmark Euro 3.6 billion for ‘information society’ research from 2002 to 2006.…

BY KATE REW
A NEW groundbreaking IT-banking joint-venture is now operating in the UK, with 1,700 staff of high street bank Abbey National plc being transferred to the organisation.

It decided earlier this year to outsource its banking processes by setting up a joint venture to handle the work, in partnership with Texas-based Electronic Data Systems.…

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 ALAN OSBORN
DEFINITIVE anti-dumping duties have been imposed by the European Union on aluminium foil exported by China and Russia. The EU Council of Ministers said that the duties would apply on imports of aluminium foil of a thickness of not less than 0.009 mm and not more than 0.018 mm, not backed, not further worked than rolled and in reels of a width not exceeding 650 mm.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE REVIEW of the Common Fisheries Policy is likely to create the largest overhaul in European Union fishing policy in years, matching the crisis in stock levels in European waters. At its heart is the integration of environmental and conservation concerns into the organisation of the EU fishing market, a principle that – judging by conclusions agreed by the Council of Ministers – will have significant consequences when changes are put in place next year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRAUDSTERS are still fleecing the European Union’s budget of hundreds-of-millions of Euros, according to the latest European Commission fraud report. It says that Member States last year alerted Brussels to 2,400 new cases of fraud or irregularity affecting revenue collection, involving Euro 535 million, (of mostly import duties), and 4,200 cases regarding spending programmes, involving Euro 600 million.…