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BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union’s ambitious Galileo satellite navigation project has been given a vote of approval by the European Parliament but the assembly also crucially said that there should be no intimate private sector involvement in the Pounds 2.5 billion programme.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers (general affairs) has approved an intensive double-checking system regarding the trade in steel products between Macedonia and the European Union. Its aim is to boost openness and transparency in the export of Macedonian steel, under the trade agreement Skopje has signed with Brussels, preventing the system being abused.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has launched the first stage of disputes proceedings at the World Trade Organisation over provisional safeguard duties imposed by the Philippines government on imports of glazed and unglazed ceramic wall and floor tiles. The European Commission has called for formal talks on the matter with the Filipino government; if these fail, then Brussels could ask a WTO panel to arbitrate on the matter.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union internal market ministers have agreed to ban the use of azocolourants in the dyeing of a range of textile and leather goods. Azocolourants are dyes made from nitrogen-based compounds, which could cause cancer. Some EU countries have already banned them and the European Commission says this should be extended to all Member States.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has suspended anti-dumping duties on imports of cotton-type bed linen from Egypt, ahead of the February 28 date when they were due to lapse, signalling it is unlikely to press for their renewal.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has provisionally approved agreements on liberalising the trade in textile products between the EU, Egypt and Laos that were negotiated last year. The deals can now come into affect, while ministers consider whether to accept them formally and permanently.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH the insurance business being one of the most internationally sensitive of global economic sectors, it came as no surprise that the tragic events of September 11 had a dramatic effect on its fortunes, impacting seriously on the work of its regulators, especially in the European Union.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A new report by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) on conditions in the world shipping and shipbuilding industries makes grim reading. Clearly things were bad well before the attack on the World Trade Centre and the fundamentals have worsened since.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A PROGRAMME promoting sophisticated safety systems for lorries, (and other motor vehicles), is being drawn up by the European Commission and the EU automobile industry. This Action Plan on Active Safety (e-Safety) should establish guidelines for their introduction, and create a forum for discussing their market implications, said EU information society Commissioner Erkki Liikanen.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank is lending a town in northern Sweden Euro 33 million to build a biomass fuelled combined heat and power station, which will consume a fuel that is widely available in the area: timber and wood chips.…