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BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

ALSTOM – the French hydropower and transport giant – has chosen India to establish its first research and development centre outside Europe and has good reasons. With a total installed capacity of more than 36,000 MW, and an estimated untapped potential of over 130,000 MW for hydropower, India is one of the biggest actual and potential markets in the region.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved the extension of milk quotas, as the EU prepares to take this lid off Europe’s production limits for this key confectionery ingredient. Ministers have authorised expanding EU milk quotas annually by 1% between 2009/10 and 2013/14, granting Italy a special immediate 5% increase in 2009/10.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CUTTING-EDGE research discovering that yeast actually behaves socially may offer brewers a way of controlling yeast-clumping and control how long yeast should remain in a brew. Scientists from the USA, Belgium and France have discovered that yeast cells with the gene FLO1 will stick together to protect against threats, which includes alcohol and antibiotics.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE EUROPEAN Commission is confident that the 27 European Union (EU) member states will vote next Wednesday (Nov 12) to repeal the marketing standards for 26 different types of fruit and vegetables, thus ending the EU’s much-derided ban on curved cucumbers and other odd-shaped vegetables.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) agriculture ministers will fly to Brussels this Friday and be presented with a French blueprint for the future of the common agricultural policy (CAP) that will suggest erecting high tariff barriers around the EU union to protect its food industries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE LIKELIHOOD of agreement over the European Union’s (EU) climate change package at this week’s EU summit has been made clear at a European Parliament debate. With heads of government being asked to cut a deal in Brussels on Thursday and Friday (11-12 Dec), MEPs debated last Thursday the narrowing of options their leaders would face.…

BY MARK ROWE

THE FUTURE of the oils and fats sector globally may be shaped in the coming years by the emergence of synthetic biology, which is enabling scientists to create oils and fats with enhanced properties.

This new technology has been developed in the wake of advances in biofuel manufacture, as the United Nations, major energy companies, scientists and environmental organisations all seek to identify the sources of energy that will sustain a post-oil world.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A COMPROMISE proposal from France aimed at securing agreement this year over the European Union’s (EU) proposed climate change package would see major energy consumers being eligible for free pollution permits. Paris does not want such European heavy industries to face unfair competition from rivals outside the EU based in jurisdictions operating much looser greenhouse gas controls.…

BY MARK ROWE

ONE of the major elements of the 2004 enlargement of the European Union (EU) was its intended expansion to these new member states of the Schengen agreement, which phases out checks at shared borders and allows free movement for all within the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs will use his last year in office to push for the creation of an EU-wide energy regulator with real power. Speaking while the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers debate a hybrid regulatory system for EU energy producers, Piebalgs has said he wants a strong EU regulator to control Europe’s energy giants.…