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BY KEITH NUTHALL
COMPREHENSIVE tests into the safety of goat meat will be staged following the conformation that a goat in France died of BSE. The European Food Safety Authority has stressed “important information gaps do not allow, at this stage, the quantification of BSE-related risks”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has fined three companies Euro 216.91 million for operating a cartel for monochloroacetic acid, a food thickener: the Netherlands’ Akzo Nobel; France’s Atofina – now Arkema; and Germany’s Hoechst.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have approved a continent-wide testing programme for goats, to check whether Europe has a public health problem regarding BSE in goats. The fact that the species can contract the disease was recently confirmed by analysis on a dead goat from France, a revelation sparking serious concerns amongst EU food regulators.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EARNINGS gap between men and women in the European Union (EU) is still too wide at 15%, the European Commission has noted, while making a series of recommendations on tackling the problem. Its latest report on ‘equality between men and women’ showed Britain has one of the most unequal pay differentials (in 2003), at 22%, way ahead of France at 12% and Italy’s 6%.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
COMPREHENSIVE tests will be carried out following the conformation that a goat in France did indeed die of BSE, said the European Commission. This follows concerns aired by the European Food Safety Authority’s BIOHAZ panel. It stressed that “important information gaps do not allow, at this stage, the quantification of BSE-related risks” regarding goat meat consumption.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IT’S fair to say that neither Bulgarian nor Romanian wine stands very high in wine-lovers’ affections at the moment. That wasn’t always so.

The wines were held in some esteem in the 80s, for instance, under the last years of communist rule, but standards have slipped pretty drastically in the score of years since then.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN and eight other European countries have signed a memorandum of understanding about constructing a groundbreaking X-ray research laser, so acute it could measure chemical reactions in real time. The UK, France, Greece, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Germany have agreed to negotiate in detail an inter-governmental arrangement for building an approximately three-kilometre-long underground laser generator.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved a new fishing access deal with Madagascar, allowing Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese to catch tuna in its Indian Ocean waters until December 2006. The EU will pay Madagascar Euro 825,000 this year and next to compensate it for the loss of fish.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AS trade ministers flew home from four days of gruelling talks at last week’s World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit in Hong Kong, they could be forgiven for feeling some satisfaction: the end of the Doha Development Round is nigh, probably.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SPANISH cava maker Castellblanch has failed in an attempt at the European Court of Justice’s Court of First Instance to secure European Union-wide trademark rights to a castle logo, with the words ‘cristal’ and ‘castellblanch’. This was opposed by France’s Champagne Louis Roederer which claimed it would be confused with its own ‘cristal’ mark.…