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BY KEITH NUTHALL

A THAILAND research agency has lost a long legal battle to force the European Commission to act against a French academic it claims duped them out of a Brussels grant. The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), of Pathumthani, a non-profit-making technological and research agency, failed to persuade the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to declare invalid a Euro 27,481 payment made in 2002.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ITALY, Belgium, Greece, Malta, France, Spain, Hungary, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Portugal have called on the European Commission to support poultry producers hit by low prices because of bird flu outbreaks in Turkey and Romania.

ENDS…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

THEY may take a few years to come into effect, but binding international rules now under discussion, to cover ship recycling will "green" the dirty and unacceptable face of an unregulated industry notorious for environmental damage and appalling working conditions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ITALY, Belgium, Greece, Malta, France, Spain, Hungary, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Portugal have called on the European Commission to support poultry producers hit by low prices because of bird flu outbreaks in Turkey and Romania.

ENDS…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE FRENCH National Centre for Scientific Research is using a European Union (EU) research project on combining computer power through grids of interlinked hard-drives to find a cure for malaria and dengue fever. Dr Vincent Breton, of the centre’s Corpuscular Physics Laboratory, has used FlexX software developed by Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute, to link computers involved in the EU-funded Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project and told them to focus on these diseases.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPE’S business newspapers are reporting that German publishing giant Bertelsmann will join the Quaero serach engine consortium that wants to create a European rival to Google. A spokeswoman for Bertelsmann’s information logistics arm Empolis however would only confirm to the Bookseller that "we are considering this", adding that there may be a formal announcement by the end of this week.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has demonstrated that there are limits to the authority coastal states may have over its fishing fleets in international access deals by refusing to renew a protocol with Angola. Indeed, the European Commission has asked EU ministers to denounce a 1989 agreement underpinning a series of access deals, after refusing to accept a new Angolan law on ‘biological aquatic resources’.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

FRANCE has been hit by yet another censure from the European Court of Justice over its failure to properly enforce European Union (EU) fishing conservation rules. Paris is already paying huge fines incurred because of past lax stocks management, and now the court has signalled it may be prepared to sanction further penalties.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A DE FACTO national ban on the sale within France of shallots produced from seeds, rather than the traditional French farming method of using bulbs, breaks European Union (EU) free trading laws, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled illegal under European Union (EU) law discriminatory national rules imposing more taxation on foreign European Union (EU) shareholders than is paid by domestic shareholders. Judges found for a French national Margaretha Bouanich, who received Euro 917,000 from a Swedish public limited company, Förvaltnings AB Ratos, which had decided to reduce its share capital.…