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By Alan Osborn

A mighty battle is about to be fought out in Europe over something called "the slope of the curve" and no, it’s not a beauty contest and it has nothing to do with landscaping or geometry – this is all about curbing CO2 emissions from new automobiles.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) heads of government have backed in principle legislation forcing EU member states to impose binding targets on reducing greenhouse gas pollution onto industries – such as packaging and food – that do not trade these emissions.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut

IN a bid to become a major air industry capital of the world, Dubai is investing US$13 billion in civil aviation and aerospace projects as part of a master plan that extends to 2050. Dubai International Airport (DXB), the 10th busiest in the world in 2006 according to Airports Council International, is spending US$4.5 billion on terminals and other facilities that will triple its capacity by 2009 to 75 million passengers, while the US$33 billion Dubai World Central (DWC) business and residential city will be centred around what could be the world’s largest airport and cargo hub, the Al Maktoum International Airport (MIA).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SUBSIDIES will continue to be paid to European Union (EU) producers of flax and hemp fibre crops, the EU Council of Ministers has decided. Indeed, aid for long flax fibre producers will rise from Euro 160/ tonne to Euro 200/tonne from 2009/10 onwards, with additional aid for long flax fibre traditional production within Belgium, France and the Netherlands.…

BY RACHEL JONES, in Caracas

SINCE biotech oil crops were first commercialised over a decade ago, their use has experienced yearly double-digit growth worldwide, with Latin America being something of a nursery for this growth. Globally, the area of biotech crops grew by 13%, or by 12 million hectares, in 2006, to reach 102 million hectares, according to the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA).…

BY MARK ROWE

THE 21st century is seeing a rapid development in the packaging of oils, scents and fats, instigated in part by the increasing global demand for olive oil, along with the burgeoning industry in essential oils.

One of the key trends has been towards the use of packaging to offer fresh products, a development augmented by the increasing perception worldwide of olive oil as a health food product.…

By Renée Cordes, in Brussels

Europe’s universities and companies must work together as a matter of urgency to ensure a more productive, mobile workforce, European Union (EU) education Commissioner Ján Figel has told the first European University/Business Forum in Brussels.

"Europe a has been too weak for too long in bringing the worlds of university academia and business enterprise together, to achieve successful commercial exploitation of academic excellence," he said, adding that universities here have tended to shy away from ‘getting their hands dirty with business.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AS the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers prepares to debate proposals on unbundling Europe’s electricity and gas industries this Thursday (Feb 28), the European Commission is refusing to adopt the so-called ‘third way’ proposals backed by France and Germany.…

BY FIDELMA COOK, PAUL COCHRANE and KEITH NUTHALL

SONATRACH, Algeria’s national oil and gas company, has made no secret to its determination to strengthen its position in Europe, which already accounts for around 60% of Algeria’s export earnings….the bulk of which is in gas.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

INTERNATIONAL standards are crucial for the trade in goods, because they allow

importers to have confidence that the foreign product they are buying meets the

specifications they are familiar with at home. So, it may come as some surprise that no

such global standard currently exists as regards the technical definition of biofuels.…