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BY MONICA DOBIE

MOTORISTS continue to drive despite knowing they are too sleepy for safety, according to study published in the British Medical Journal.

French researchers from the Institut National de la Santé [health] et de la Recherche Médicale and the Institut National de Recherche sur les Transports et leur Sécurité examined the association between 13,299 middle-aged drivers admitting driving in France whilst sleepy and their risk of serious road traffic accidents.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

FRENCH prime minister Dominique de Villepin has announced plans to increase the blending in France of biofuels with conventional oil to 10% per volume by 2015. This would deliver biofuel prominence “twice as much as European [Union] objectives,” he said.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission’s RAPEX consumer protection information service has warned tests carried out in France on Lebanon-made anti-freckle cream ‘Diana’ were "strongly poitive" regarding mercury contamination. "Severe erythematous, oedematous eczema appeared five hours after application of the product," said the warning, which added Diana also contained.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

AS the European Commission prepares to release its long-awaited wine common market reforms, the European Union’s (EU) wine management committee has recommended that the European Commission spends up to Euro 131 million on more compulsory distillation. EU agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel branded the decision "depressing" – the oncoming wine proposals are expected to suggest phasing out such subsidies.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

European investment in renewable energy will exceed $60 billion by 2011, excluding large-scale hydroelectricity, predicts Emerging Energy Research (EER) a research and advisory company based in Spain and the United States. The firm says that the top 20 utilities have already set aside $13.3 billion for renewable energy ventures – "primarily onshore wind farms but also offshore wind, wave and tidal energy, solar, biomass and small-scale hydroelectric projects."…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has called in a green paper for European Union (EU) member states to reveal the beneficiaries of Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) subsidies, whose management is shared by national governments and EU institutions. Brussels’ anti-fraud Commissioner Siim Kallas has been informally asking member states for a year to unveil data on subsidy claimants, because that would discourage fraudulent applications by farmers, food processors and storage facilities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers and the European Parliament have approved a new fishing agreement with Morocco, despite controversy over its covering waters off the disputed territory of the Western Sahara. The Polisario Liberation Front has since 1975 been fighting Morocco for self-determination over the largely desert territory.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has called in a green paper for European Union (EU) member states to reveal the beneficiaries of Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) subsidies, whose management is shared by national governments and EU institutions. Brussels’ anti-fraud Commissioner Siim Kallas has been informally asking member states for a year to unveil data on subsidy claimants, because that would discourage fraudulent applications by farmers, food processors and storage facilities.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE BROAD shape of the wine reform plan to be presented by the European Commission in June has become clearer following remarks by the European Union (EU) agriculture commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel in Spain this week (May 4).…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

TAXATION in Britain under Gordon Brown’s economic stewardship has continued to rise, say the latest figures from European Union (EU) statistical agency Eurostat, reaching 36% of GDP in 2004. This is up from 35.5% in 2003, itself a small rise from 35.4% in 1995.…