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BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN INTERNATIONAL research project has shown immunity to malaria can be developed by patients inoculated with intact parasites whilst being treated with the common anti-malarial chloroquine. This kills the parasites towards the end of their life in the human body, apparently giving immune systems enough time to develop resistance.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH and KEITH NUTHALL

IT is an important symbol of the changing focus of the European Union (EU) that the EU’s energy lobby is today regarded as an equal, if not more important than, the once feared agriculture lobby in Brussels.…

BY MARK GODFREY

CHINESE brandy makers are securing increasing sales of their product in China, using French expertise to create quality products. Leading Chinese winemaker Dynasty, is claiming double-digit growth in domestic sales of its VSOP and Napoleon (five and seven year vintage respectively), said company CFO Rex Yeung.…

By David Haworth, in Brussels

The European Commission and the European Parliament are beginning to feel the rough edge of voter sentiment about them.

Neither institution is well regarded – and becoming less so all the time.

Of course European Union (EU) officials say nothing about the tsunami of complaint, criticism and contempt that the speed of emails exposes them to.

But the email blowback from voters is uncomfortably there.

One such bureaucrat “victim” commented on how informed and specific the abuse was. Personal even.

Print journalists use to say this kind of contact was from the “green ink brigade” because that was the colour of choice many critics used.

Although the delete button stands in for a waste paper basket these days, a public body finds it more difficult not to reply to unwanted correspondence.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) just loves setting up new agencies and statutory bodies. If there is a problem, then usually agreement can be struck at the European Parliament and EU Council of Ministers on creating a body of experts to deal with it.…

By David Haworth

The European Commission and the European Parliament are beginning to feel the rough edge of voter sentiment about them.

Neither institution is well regarded – and becoming less so all the time.

Of course European Union (EU) officials say nothing about the tsunami of complaint, criticism and contempt that the speed of emails exposes them to.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THERE seems little doubt that European consumers are not only still hostile to the idea of buying products containing genetically-modified organisms (GMOs), they may actually becoming increasingly negative. They just don’t like the idea of applying creams or make-up from organisms containing genes from different and often unrelated species introduced to give them special qualities such as pest or disease resistance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A COMPREHENSIVE report from a European Union (EU) think-tank has indicated that Britain’s new Pounds 2,000 scrappage scheme may not work, because of high levels of UK personal indebtedness.

The paper ‘Recent restructuring trends and policies in the automotive sector’ by the Dublin-based European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions has shown how Germany’s scrappage scheme has been markedly successful – in contrast to those in other EU member states, such as France and Italy.…

BY PHILIPPA JONES, in Paris; LEE ADENDORFF, in Lucca, Italy; KARRYN MILLER, in Tokyo; and LUCY JONES, in Dallas

IT almost seems commonsense to say that an industry providing such a human product as clothing has to take account of cultural sensibilities in target markets.…

BY MARK GODFREY

COMMUNIST Party cadres from around China are being bussed out to Asuwei landfill in Beijing’s Changping suburb to view a showcase for how China wants to manage waste in the future. As China urbanises, its solid waste output has been climbing by 9% a year, said Rasmus Reinvag, co-author of a recent China environmental sector report by the WWF conservation group and Norwegian-government owned development group Innovation Norway.…