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SMILE/CIVITAS



BY KEITH NUTHALL
LOCAL authorities in Camden and Nottingham have been held up as good practice examples in the promotion of environmentally sustainable transport by the European Union’s (EU) SMILE project, which concluded last week at a conference in La Rochelle, France (27-28 May).…

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EU ROUND UP



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is bankrolling the development of Kazakhstan’s oil and gas reserves, a key alternative supply for the European Union (EU). It wants to lend Tasbulat Ltd Euro 60 million to help develop three medium-sized oil and gas fields in Mangistau region, western Kazakhstan, producing up to 8,000 barrels/day in 2006; Tasbulat is owned by SNP Petrom, Romania’s national oil company.…

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PROTECTED FOODSTUFFS



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has added two products to the EU’s protected geographical indications list: Rincón de Soto pears, of Spain, and France’s Brioche Vendéenne.…

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FDI - CHINA



BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA has become the first developing country to be among the top five sources of direct foreign investment, along with the USA, Germany, Britain and France, says a new UN report.…

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LOWER PAY INCREASES



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RATE of pay increases across the European Union (EU), and Norway, fell between 2002 and 2003, although Britain bucked the EU trend, said a report from the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.…

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PRION NETWORK



BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) network of excellence on prion disease research was launched last week (May 28) at a conference in Fontenay-aux-Roses, France. Involving 52 laboratories from 20 countries, Neuroprion commands European Commission funding of Euro 14.4 million over five years, focusing on BSE, vCJD, and scrapie.…

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BULGARIA POWER PLANT



BY KEITH NUTHALL
BULGARIA has announced it will build a second nuclear power plant to replace the outdated Kozloduy power station, which the European Union (EU) insists should be closed by 2006. Construction will take place at Belene, in northern Bulgaria where work started on building a 1,000-megawatt plant in 1987, but ceased in 1991 following environmental campaigns.…

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AIRPORT MONITOR



BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PROTOTYPE of a three-dimensional monitoring system allowing airport managers to check all groundhandling movements on aircraft runways, taxiways, aprons and parking zones, is being developed by a European Union (EU) research consortium. Coordinated by French IT firm SILOGIC, it involves cameras creating digital images that identify individuals, objects and vehicles, whose movement can be interpreted by computers.…

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PRO-EU OPINION PIECE



BY KEITH NUTHALL
SITTING in a comfortable flybe. seat, maybe flying home from a colourful continental European destination, you will already know how Britain’s European Union (EU) membership improves your life.

Those simple passport control procedures at continental airports – if there were are any at all – are a direct result of the demolition of national borders by Brussels.…

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GUINEA BISSAU DEAL



BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have approved an agreement with west Africa’s Guinea Bissau, which will guarantee access to its fishing grounds for Italian, French, Greek, Portuguese and Spanish fishermen until June 2006. The deal involves the Guinea Bissau government being granted Euro 7.26 million a year in financial compensation.…

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