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BY DAVID EIMER, in Beijing

"Build nuclear power, enrich the people", proclaim the billboards at China’s Qinshan nuclear facility in the south-eastern province of Zhejiang. Qinshan, a 120 kilometres south of Shanghai, is the centre of China’s nuclear sector and home to five of the country’s nine operational reactors.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NEW tough fuel and road transport pollution standards have been proposed for the European Union (EU) by the European Commission, removing a loophole enabling sports utility vehicles (SUVs) to be covered by looser emission limits currently allowed for commercial vans.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Commission official has warned the Drinks Bulletin that there could be a tough fight ahead over agreeing proposals made before Christmas on reforming European Union (EU) rules on selling spirits. The senior official, who wanted to remain anonymous, said that although a political deal within the Commission had been struck to overcome concerns in Estonia, Finland, Poland and Sweden about allowing vodka to be made with ingredients other than the traditional grain, potato, sugar beat and molasses, this was far from the final result.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Helsinki

BY its own lights Finland is a model of Nordic virtue and is snooty about crime in neighbouring countries round the Baltic. But Interpol begs to differ, ranking Finnish criminality as high for an industrialised economy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Commission official has warned the Drinks Bulletin that there could be a tough fight ahead over agreeing proposals made before Christmas on reforming European Union (EU) rules on selling spirits. The senior official, who wanted to remain anonymous, said that although a political deal within the Commission had been struck to overcome concerns in Estonia, Finland, Poland and Sweden about allowing vodka to be made with ingredients other than the traditional grain, potato, sugar beat and molasses, this was far from the final result.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN EUROPEAN Commission official has told just-drinks.com that Brussels needed to overcome a political battle with vodka producing countries over ingredients, before it was able to formally table reforms to European Union (EU) spirit labelling rules yesterday (WED 21/12).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament has supported proposals to allow Finland re-impose restrictions beer its citizens can import from Russia, because of fears about booming cross-border sales. Under European law, private travellers can normally import 200 litres of beer from third countries into Finland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST certified emission reductions generating credits under the Kyoto Protocol’s clean development mechanism have been issued. These allow developed countries to meet some domestic emissions reduction targets by investing in developing country anti-pollution projects, here Italy and Finland financing two Honduras hydroelectric plants.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AFTER years of doing nothing, and then years of erecting complex bureaucratic controls, the European Union (EU) is at last starting to get its act together on controlling fraud. Keith Nuthall reports.

IN a filthy flat, not properly cleaned for years, moving the odd cupboard and shining a torch on the floor is sure to highlight a few cockroaches, scuttling for safety towards some Godforsaken corner.…

Keith Nuthall
POLITICAL pressure is being piled onto European Union (EU) member states to release more information about the way they spend EU-funded grants and subsidies from the Euro 110 billion EU budget. In a long-awaited ‘European Transparency Initiative’, EU anti-fraud Commissioner Siim Kallas has proposed discussions with national governments about “the introduction of a legal obligation to publish information about projects and end beneficiaries of funds under shared management”, between member states and Brussels.…