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BY ALAN OSBORN

THE EUROPEAN Commission has "put on hold" its investigation into the proposed acquisition of parts of the Netherlands food ingredients company GBI by Associated British Foods of the UK because certain information sought by Brussels had not arrived by the time of an inquiry deadline.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH

THE EUROPEAN Smoking Tobacco Association (ESTA) represents the interests of the European manufacturers, distributors and importers of fine-cut (rolling) tobacco, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco and nasal snuff tobacco. The members of ESTA are mainly small and medium sized companies (SMEs) as well as member associations from the vast majority of the European Union Member States from Norway and Switzerland.…

BY MARK GODFREY

FOREIGN brands are battling to secure milk supply to tap a market that the food business dared not dream would actually emerge – a sustained increase in sales of dairy products in China. Wang Yue Jing, general manager of the Beijing Cang Da Cow Breeding Agriculture & Commercial Co, said he was offered Chinese Yuan – RMB 300,000-a-year (US$43,960) in trucking subsidies by France’s Danone to supply his daily output of 16 tonnes of milk.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has today announced the release of Euro 5.4 million in grants to European Union (EU) wine producers to help them market their products across the EU. The money will be funnelled through national producer and marketing organisations and will pay for "public relations, promotional or publicity… highlighting EU products’…quality, hygiene, food safety, nutrition, labelling, animal welfare or environment-friendliness…" said a Commission note.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

A RECENT study from the Université de Bretagne-Sud in France has found that the louder the music is in a bar the more people drink.

Researchers observed 40 male subjects aged 18-25 in French bars on Saturday nights in a medium-sized city in western France.…

By Keith Nuthall

It is almost a truism that women have a tougher time in most professions than men, and academia is no different. But it is worth considering the absurdity of this statement: that in the 21st century, it is still quite normal to assume that the success of an academic or student is likely to be affected by their gender.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has released Euro 5.4 million in grants to European Union (EU) wine producers helping them market products across the EU. The money will be funnelled through national producer and marketing organisations, funding "public relations, promotional or publicity… highlighting EU products’…quality, hygiene, food safety, nutrition, labelling, animal welfare or environment-friendliness…" The payments include Euro 750,000 to the Bureau Interprofessionnel des Vins de Bourgogne (Burgundy), France; Euro 750,000 to port promoter Instituto dos Vinhos do Douro e Porto, of Portugal; Euro 1.63 million to the Italian Wine Union (UIV); Euro 1.15 million to Italy’s ATI – Wine experiences organisation; and Euro 1.15 million to CVR Alentejana, southern Portugal.…

By Keith Nuthall

WE all know about Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace. These social utility websites allow us all to keep in touch with friends and family around the world, exchange messages, post pictures and play silly games – such as throwing a digital sheep at someone or giving them a pixellated hellraiser cocktail.…

By Keith Nuthall

Research funding for a global project that seeks to harness the thermodynamics of the stars to create a sustainable and safe nuclear fusion reactor is starting to be released. A consortium of 14 research teams from across Europe has been formed to create a computer simulation of the international ITER fusion reactor, to model the technology required to operate it safely.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MEMBERS of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) are for the first time seriously debating a global agreement on fishing subsidies, setting rules on their scope that would apply across the globe, and which could ban financial handouts for increasing fleet capacity.…