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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed re-erecting anti-dumping duties on imports of polyester staple fibres from Belarus, China, Saudi Arabia and South Korea after concluding that lifting them would lead to further dumping of this yarn on European Union (EU) markets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE BULGARIAN prime minister Sergei Stanishev has dug the first sod to launch the construction of the country’s second nuclear power plant at Belene. The aim is to see the Euro 4 billion 2,000 MW plant operational by 2014.…

By Alan Osborn

Three young researchers, from Poland, Slovakia and Britain, were awarded the top prizes in the EU Contest for Young Scientists in Copenhagen on September 25th against competition from national scientific prize-winners from 39 European countries plus Brazil, Canada, China, Mexico, New Zealand and the USA.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE BULGARIAN prime minister Sergei Stanishev has dug the first sod to launch the construction of the country’s second nuclear power plant at Belene. The aim is to see the Euro 4 billion 2,000 MW plant operational by 2014.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has frozen its partnership and cooperation negotiations with Russia over the Georgia conflict, just three months after the talks were launched following long delays. An emergency meeting of the EU Council of Ministers has ordered no meetings will take place with Moscow on the agreement until its "troops have withdrawn to the positions held prior to 7 August", prior to its short war with Georgia.…

By Keith Nuthall

European academics are preparing to gather at a high level conference to discuss the problems being caused to higher education by a sharp decline in the European population. The debates at the European University Association (EUA) conference comes as the latest figures from European Union (EU) statistical agency Eurostat confirm the number of young people in European countries is already shrinking and will get smaller.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN aerospace players have been named in an 11-strong shortlist of applicants to build the first complete network of European Union (EU) satellite navigation system GALILEO. They have been chosen by the European Commission and the European Space Agency (ESA), and have been narrowed down to a choice of two per task – with one job, launch services, having a shortlist of one: France’s Arianespace.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN INTERNATIONAL Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) workshop has told countries wanting to adopt nuclear power technology they must first create systems guaranteeing the safety of any new reactors. The meeting – called ‘Roles and Responsibilities of Vendor Countries and Countries Embarking on Nuclear Power Programmes to Ensure Long-Term Safety’ – heard this preparatory work could take 15 years before plants start producing electricity.…

BY ANDREW CAVE

ONE might suppose that scrapping the European Union’s (EU) restrictive block exemption legislation that helps big car manufacturers and hinders thousands of independent suppliers and garages wanting to repair their automobiles would be welcomed in the after-sales market.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE G8 group of major economic powers has collectively promised to increase their contributions to help clean up the Chernobyl nuclear complex by Euro 62 million. The money from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the USA and the European Union will help complete a storage facility for more than 20,000 spent fuel assemblies generated during the operation of Chernobyl units 1-3

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