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BY PAUL RIGG

ROBBERIES, competition from immigrants and the state of the economy are the issues of most pressing concern for Spanish hauliers, according to drivers interviewed in truck stops on the outskirts of Madrid by Commercial Motor.

"I woke up with my kidneys and head hurting like I’d drunk a bottle of whisky," said Elias Calyo, 46, from Andalucia in the south of Spain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A NUCLEAR company will be the first beneficiary of France’s first sovereign wealth fund, its president Nicolas Sarkozy has announced. Paris will sink Euro 20 billion into this strategic investment account, and Sarkozy has announced the fund’s first Euro 80 million investment will go to nuclear industrial equipment and services supplier Daher.…

BY KARRYN MILLER

ABOUT a decade ago we first heard whispers of compressed air cars: an eco-friendly driving option that kept travel costs low. Now, with mineral oil fuelled cars under pressure on price and pollution, air-powered vehicles are finally becoming a concrete product.…

By Keith Nuthall

In a sign that the credit crunch is not demolishing all long term thinking in the financial sector, France’s AXA insurance group has continued rolling out funding from a five-year Euro 100 million programme into innovative research exploring risk.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE SHAPE of the European Commission’s rescue package for the European Union (EU) automobile industry has become much clearer: a Euro 40 billion soft loan pushed through the European Investment Bank (EIB).

This was revealed by EU industry Commissioner Günter Verheugen after a meeting with European auto sector executives, including France’s Peugeot-Citroën and Germany’s Daimler, under the umbrella of the EU’s CARS 21 reform initiative.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE GLOBAL market for uranium is booming as climate change gives the nuclear power sector a new lease of life, but given this element’s intrinsic environmental health difficulties, regulatory obstacles for mining companies can be tough.

Maybe nowhere is this more apparent than in the world’s largest uranium producer, Canada: uranium miners’ safety measures have to be doubly secure, lest public opinion prevents work starting in the first place.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WITHOUT uranium mining we would not have nuclear energy, and with the industry experiencing a renaissance because of global warming, demand and prices for uranium is only likely to increase in the medium term. But of course uranium is not the most stable of substances, and digging it out of the ground is never going to be overwhelming popular amongst communities near mine sites.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, JULIAN RYALL, and PHILIPPA JONES

COMPARED to their counterparts in Europe and Asia, North American men are at the bottom of the league tables for using beauty products, leaving male cosmetics marketers with both a lot of work, and a lot opportunity.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE CO2 cap on new cars within the European Union (EU) that has been proposed by the European Commission looks set to be watered down, with the French government pushing a compromise deal that would delay full implementation to 2015.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have discussed potential EU legislation on Internet-linked tags that are integrated into products and which provide information to consumers, retailers and manufacturers on their purchase and use. The development of this technology has raised concerns amongst privacy activists who have called for laws insisting that consumers have the right to switch off such tags.…