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EU ROUND UP – AZERBAIJAN GAS DEAL SEALED
THE FINAL investment deal on piping gas from Azerbaijan’s Shah Deniz II field has been struck, confirming Europe will receive 10 billion cubic metres (bcm) annually from 2019. The gas will be shipped via the upgraded South Caucasus Pipeline through Georgia and the new TANAP pipeline across Turkey, linking with the planned Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) through Greece and Albania to Italy.…
JAITAPUR POWER PLANT PROJECT CLEARS BUREAUCRATIC HURDLES
THE PROJECT to build a 9,900 megawatt Jaitapur nuclear power plant in India has cleared some significant procedural hurdles, the Indian parliament has been told: “Land has been acquired … statutory environmental and coastal regulation zone clearances have been obtained … and infrastructure works at the site are in progress.”…
BRUSSELS LAUNCHES INVESTIGATION INTO PLANNED UK SUPPORT FOR EDF NUCLEAR PLANT
THE EUROPEAN Commission opened today (Wednesday) an investigation into the plans of the British government to subsidise the construction and operation of a new nuclear power plant by Electricité de France (EDF) at Hinkley Point C in Somerset. Brussels want to ensure that UK plans to establish a feed-in tariff giving stable revenues to EDF over 35 years despite the volatility of the electricity market is not illegal under European Union’s (EU) state aid rules.…
EUROPE: EUA REPORT REVEALS HOW UNIS TODAY TAP PUBLIC FUNDS
An interim report from the European Universities Association (EUA) on the pattern of public funding for universities has highlighted how the character of funding for HE institutions in Europe is changing, largely though not entirely, as a result of the economic pressures facing governments.…
GREENING MEASURES IN THE NEW EU AGRICULTURAL POLICY TO IMPACT BIOFUEL CROPS
EVEN if the heated political debate over the reform of the European Union’s (EU) common agricultural policy (CAP) has cooled off in Brussels after the final agreement reached in September, the European Commission is still thrashing out the practical rules on how the policy will be implemented.…
BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP RULES INCREASINGLY TIGHT WORLDWIDE
IT has not happened yet but the outlook for effective world-wide action to expose the beneficial ownership of shell companies and other kinds of suspect corporate vehicles is probably better today than it has been for many years, perhaps ever. That’s the word from Robert Palmer of Global Witness, the campaign group which has played a leading part in pressing for action on the matter.…
EUROPE AND CHINA HOLD TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINES STANDARD SYMPOSIUM
THE COUNCIL of Europe-associated European directorate for the quality of medicines and healthcare (EDQM) and the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine [TCM] of the People’s Republic of China (SATCM) have jointly staged a symposium on scientific assessments of TCM. Staged in Strasbourg, France, the SATCM’s deputy director general for international co-operation Wu Zhen-dou and EDQM director Dr Susanne Keitel pledged at the meeting to “continue their fruitful co-operation and to strengthen scientific exchanges between the two organisations.”…
NEW LABELLING RULES FOR PIG, SHEEP, GOATS AND POULTRY LEADING TO A RENATIONALISATION OF THE EU, INDUSTRY SAYS
NEW national origin labelling rules for pork, sheep, goat and poultry meat made in the European Union (EU) could reduce the trade in meat products between the 28 EU countries, EU senior meat industry figures have warned. In a joint statement, Jean-Luc Mériaux, secretary general of the European Livestock and Meat Trading Union (UECBV) and Detlef Stachetzki, manager at the German meat industry federation (VDF – Verband der Fleischwirtschaft) said: “The rule gives rise to the belief of EU citizens that products produced in their own country are better/safer/healthier/ than the products from other countries.”…
ITALY’S AIRPORTS SEEK TO FILL THE INFRASTRUCTURE GAP
A series of infrastructure improvements are in the works at Italy’s major airports following the end of a decade-long freeze on airport charges which has left the country’s transport hubs way behind the pack.
Indeed, 2013 was a good year for Italy’s airport sector: a new charges scheme was introduced at major airports across the country, putting an end to a decade-long policy paralysis.…
EUROPE TRIES TO NETWORK ITS WAY INTO ENERGY INDEPENDENCE
THE DIPLOMATIC stand-off between the European Union (EU) and Russia over their respective links to Ukraine throws into stark light the EU’s desire to secure energy security of supply and to decrease its reliance on an unpredictable Russian government. These needs were reflected in the announcement in October of a list of 248 energy infrastructure projects that the EU wants built in in the next decade, all in some way connecting EU member countries through electricity, gas and oil links.…