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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN consortium claims to have successfully developed a mobile and self-erecting crane, “to create a single crane that can do the work of five”. The six participating Belgian, German, Italian and Dutch companies – linked under the banner of European research network Eureka – say the crane “features an anti-sway device which makes it safer as well as more efficient”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission will spend Euro millions over the next three years promoting French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German and Austrian wines in key foreign markets. Announcing the latest of a series of such grants, (matched by national funding), Brussels noted that the main targets would be north America, China, Russia, India, Japan and non-European Union countries in central and eastern Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) research network Eureka is developing a research project to extract pure collagen hydrolysates from solid leather production wastes. The study currently has a Euro 1.8 million budget, which should grow over its four-year life, until 2008.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission will spend the majority of a new Euro 5 million budget over the next three years promoting French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German and Austrian wines in key foreign markets. Brussels noted that the main targets would be north America, China, Russia, India, Japan and non-European Union countries in central and eastern Europe.…

Keith Nuthall
Coca-Cola is to return to selling its drinks through supermarket outlets in Germany after a 2-year break which followed the introduction of a bottle and can deposit scheme at the beginning of 2003. The company said it would begin with 1.5-litre bottles for the German discount supermarket chain Lidl in mid March 2005, later moving to other drinks like Coca-Cola Light, Fanta, and Sprite.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s environment committee has signalled a move away from imposing European Union (EU)-wide environmental standards as a means to green the continent. It has agreed with the European Commission that a new EU directive on groundwater should let national governments set their own standards of cleanliness.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GERMAN sparkling wine producer has lost an attempt at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to overturn the European Union (EU) registration of the trademark Lindenhof by a rival company for “mineral and aerated waters and other non-alcoholic drinks; fruit drinks and fruit juices”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) will help Afghanistan to resume sugar production. In a German-funded project, the FAO will rehabilitate the country’s only sugar factory in Baghlan, which closed when the USSR invaded in 1979.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ITALY and Germany dominate design innovation in the European Union (EU) textile sector, according to the figures from the EU’s Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) – OHIM. They show that in 2003 and 2004, Italy formally registered 2,899 textile designs with the office, gaining them legal protection against plagiarism.…

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.…