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BY ALAN OSBORN
GERMANY’S coal industry is to be allowed to receive Euro two billion, (about DM 4 billion and Pounds 1.2 billion), in state aid from January 1, 2002, to July 23, in 2002, the European Commission has agreed. The grants will cover operating aid of DM 1.9 billion, (Pounds 580 million), aid for the reduction of activity of DM 785 million, (Pounds 238 million), aid to maintain the underground mining workforce of DM 33 million, (Pounds 10 million), and exceptional charges of DM 1.32 billion, (Pounds 400 million).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE TERRORIST attacks on New York and Washington DC have not just galvanised the developed world into military action, it has encouraged governments and international organisations to pass new anti-terror laws affecting travel, data protection, criminal investigations and money laundering.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has struck a trade deal with Pakistan that will reward its support for the west in the war in Afghanistan by scrapping EU import tariffs on Pakistani clothing exports and increasing import quotas by 15 per cent.…

KEITH NUTHALL
IT is common knowledge that the European Union is becoming increasingly involved in public water policy, legislating to control the environmental quality of water supplies and watercourses. Brussels ambitions to improve water services do not, however, end at the external borders of the EU.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has blocked the planned takeover by London-based CVC Capital Partners Group Ltd, (CVC), of Austrian man-made fibres manufacturer Lenzing AG. Because CVC already controls Acordis, Lenzing’s principal rival in Europe, and only rival in the United States, Brussels has ruled that a merged company would have a dominant position in a number of fibres markets, that could “reduce choice and lead to higher prices for customers and end consumers.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A REVIEW of European safety laws designed to prevent industrial explosions – such as that which recently ripped through the Atofina fertiliser plant in Toulouse, France, killing 29 people and injuring 2,400 – is to be launched by a specialist EU committee.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has finally bit the bullet and launched the creation of the much-vaunted European Single Sky. Its detailed proposals reflect the wishes of national governments to continue handling air traffic control, but importantly, they involve the creation of a “European upper airspace,” where flight management would not be based upon national borders.…

Keith Nuthall
THE THREE businessmen found guilty of colluding in an illegal share-fixing operation during the Guinness takeover of Distillers in 1980’s have failed to persuade the European Court of Human Rights to order the British government to meet a legal expenses claim of Pounds 1.26 million, even though they scored a victory in the case.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE THREE important central European tobacco-growing countries of Bulgaria, Poland and Hungary will be able to claim production subsidies from Brussels when they join the European Union on the same basis as existing EU producers, European Commission officials have confirmed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE AVIATION tragedies in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, have led to the European Union developing a wide-range of air security regulations and policies, with ministers agreeing to fast-track their passage onto the EU statute book.

Meeting in Luxemburg, the Council of Ministers for transport granted political approval to a hastily drawn-up proposed regulation on aviation security.…