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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) may be legally a single market, food prices range widely across its 27 member states. The most recent survey of 500 comparable products by Eurostat, the EU’s statistical agency, shows last year (2009) the price of a comparable basket of food and non-alcoholic beverages was more than twice as high in the most expensive EU country than the cheapest.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has launched a Euro 4.2 million research project SAFEPROTEX that will develop highly protective clothing for complex emergency operations. Running until 2013 it will involve companies such as Palmhive Technical Textiles Ltd, of Nottingham, England; France’s TDV Industries and Rescoll; Italy’s Lenzi Egisto; Finland’s TTY-Saatio; Spain’s Suministros Irunako; Slovakia’s Vyskumny Ustav Chemickych Vlakien; and Sweden’s Swerea IVF.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE ROLL-OUT of the European eCall in-car emergency system is approaching critical mass with 20 countries now committed to operating its supporting infrastructure. The European Commission today announced another five countries were implementing eCall services – Belgium, Denmark, Luxemburg, Malta and Romania.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is pumping Euro 11.9 million into a new international effort to create a vaccine that destroys HIV completely in patients. The five year (2010-2015) CUT’HIV project is being coordinated by the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, and also includes Finland’s FIT Biotech Oy Ltd, Germany’s Geneart AG, and other university researchers from Britain, Germany, Spain, Peru and Mozambique.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRITISH and German customs and police officers have arrested 47 suspects in an alleged carousel fraud network exploiting the European Union’s (EU) emissions trading regime. UK authorities arrested 22; there were 25 arrests in Germany. Police in Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands and Portugal, plus non-EU Norway have assisted inquiries.…

BY GERARD O’DWYER

IF there is one region where high standards in fighting money laundering and terrorist finance are expected, it is surely the five Nordic states: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland. Notwithstanding the criticism leveled at Iceland’s financial regulators during the credit crunch, all five countries have admirable traditions of public openness, government efficiency and international cooperation, especially amongst themselves.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IN a month highlighting that many European Union (EU) countries are living beyond their financial means, it was timely perhaps for the European Commission to note that member states also have unsustainable water policies.

In short, many EU governments are failing to prevent the abstraction of fresh water at rates exceeding nature’s ability to replenish supplies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IT is official – Britain has the most binge drinkers in Europe. A European Commission survey of drinking habits showed that 6% of Britons who drink usually consume 10 or more units of alcohol in every drinking session.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

ON the face of it, the UK, with other leading western European Union (EU) countries, leads the pack in terms of drawing up and submitting its River Basin Management (RBM) plans to the European Commission – the key first stage requirement of the EU’s Water Framework Directive (WFD).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has signalled it is unlikely to intervene to prevent the proposed takeover of Ukraine’s gas pipeline network by Russia’s Gazprom. Displaying his relatively relaxed attitude to closer energy links with Moscow, new German EU energy Commissioner Günter Oettinger told a press conference: "The decision has to come between Kiev and Moscow and not in Brussels."…