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BY PHILIPPA JONES, in Paris; ANDREW CAVE, in Oxford; and SYMON ROSS, in Belfast

IT is a tough time in the European petrol retail market at present. High prices last year have been followed by a global recession. It is no wonder fuel sales are depressed.…

By Keith Nuthall

A group of European universities are banding together to create potentially valuable nanotechnology that could help pharmaceutical companies better target their anti-cancer drugs against tumours. The aim is to reduce the need to use wide-ranging chemotherapy and radiotherapy, which can cause patients to suffer from so many side-effects they sometimes wished their tumours had been left alone.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has concluded that in 2007 Campylobacter infections were the most common disease passed onto humans from meat and dairy livestock and food. Britain has a significant problem, having the second highest number of human infections: 57,815 – more than a quarter of all European Union (EU) cases.…

By Alan Osborn

We should have known better than to believe the French last year when they said they wanted a new, reformed common agricultural policy with lower subsidies for farmers. That, incredibly, was what French president Nicholas Sarkozy said in September 2007. 

Incredible is right.

A year later Paris has thrown such pledges into the dustbin.

Late November’s French government paper setting out ideas for a meeting of EU agriculture ministers, when the future of the CAP was to be discussed, makes clear that France wants to preserve the traditional shape of the CAP with protection of farmers’ incomes uppermost.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

France’s attempts to get the EU Council of Ministers to sign up in principle to a farmer-friendly and potentially protectionist Common Agricultural Policy in the long-term were blocked by Britain, Sweden and Latvia at a meeting of EU agriculture ministers last Friday.…

By Alan Osborn

FEW things say more about the growing enthusiasm for nuclear power than the rush of young students eager to make a career in the industry. It is happening mainly in America but other countries are now beginning to see the same development.…

BY GRAHAM TEARSE

THE FESTIVE season has by-passed the road haulage business in France. There is overriding gloom as businesses are daily going bust amid a devastating economic downturn, while there is widespread dread over the impending arrival of cabotage rights for east European transporters.…

By ALAN OSBORN

For long the Cinderella of the engineering industry, nuclear power appears to be regaining its popularity as a career choice with a surprising increase in university courses, mainly but not exclusively in the US. In some countries, like France, enthusiasm has never faltered and a clear career pattern in nuclear sciences has been established for years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE FRENCH government has been fined Euro 10 million by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for failing to implement European Union (EU) legislation allowing the circulation of screened genetically modified food in its territory.

Judges agreed with the European Commission that Paris should be punished for failing to enact a 2002 directive on the release of GM organisms until this year.…

BY LEE ADENDORFF, in Lucca, Italy; PHILIPPA JONES, in Paris; DOMINIQUE PATTON, in Beijing; KARRYN CARTELLE, in Tokyo; and LUCY JONES, in Dallas

Where is the best cutting edge research for the textile and clothing industry? Which are the best design schools, the best fabric developers and the best industrial innovators in the sector?…