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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) health Commissioner is pressing EU member states to take more action against tuberculosis, which while still rare in Europe, is reasserting itself worldwide amidst special concern about treatment resistant strains. Markos Kyprianou said: “Though the overall prevalence of TB in the EU is among the lowest in the world, TB among vulnerable populations in the EU has increased.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) anti-fraud agency OLAF took part in police raids on the European Parliament and the European Commission, in an inquiry into an alleged EU buildings tendering scandal. One European Commission official and a European Parliament MEP’s assistant, both Italian, were arrested in Brussels, and an Italian estate agent was arrested in the city suburbs.…

BY MARK ROWE
FOLLOWING the ‘big bang’ of European Union (EU) expansion in May 2004, when 10 countries acceded to the EU, followed by Romania and Bulgaria this year, analysts were curious to see how those new members with well-regarded drinks industries would cope in the new pan-EU family.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN and 10 other European Union (EU) member states have been attacked by an unusual alliance of electrical goods manufacturers and environmentalists for failing to properly implement the EU WEEE directive on waste from electrical and electronic equipment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN and 10 other European Union (EU) member states have been attacked by an unusual alliance of electrical goods manufacturers and environmentalists who allege they have failed to properly implement the EU WEEE directive on waste from electrical and electronic equipment.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in London
YOU think the European Union (EU) is like the US – one big uniform market where prices are roughly the same wherever you buy? It is after all, legally and officially named the ‘Single European Market’.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in London
YOU think the European Union (EU) is like the US – one big uniform market where prices are roughly the same wherever you buy? It is after all, legally and officially named the ‘Single European Market’.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has laid formal charges against European flat glass suppliers – including Britain’s Pilkington – alleging the existence of a European Union (EU) cartel controlling the sale of this key construction material. Brussels has not named companies receiving formal ‘statements of objections’, however, Pilkington has admitted these cover “alleged violations of competition rules by a number of glass manufacturers in the European building products glass sector, including Pilkington.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SEAFOOD species are often the ocean’s dustbins, finding nutrients in the particles and waste that filter down to the seabed, and as result they are very sensitive to contamination. This is of course a bigger issue in regions where coasts are heavily populated, causing municipal and industrial pollution, and so it is of little surprise that the European Union’s (EU) news agency the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is concerned with contamination of foodstuffs, including those harvested from the sea.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has unveiled further data underlining the risk to human health posed by widespread contamination of broiler chicken flocks across Europe with the pathogen salmonella. In its latest figures, which back earlier alarming data about salmonella contamination within egg production systems, EFSA said that in 2005-6, almost a quarter – 23.7% – of EU broiler (meat) flocks were contaminated with salmonella.…