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BY KEITH NUTHALL

SUPPORTERS of liberalising the European Union’s (EU) common agriculture policy and other food subsidy regimes can expect a helping hand from the new Swedish presidency of the EU from July 1.

Sweden has traditionally allied itself with Britain, the Netherlands, and eastern European liberalisers in the EU Council of Ministers, which it will chair for six months until the end of this year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) incoming food health claims labelling regulation has been attacked at a Brussels conference for stifling innovation in the healthy food and drink sub-sector. Specialists called for "time out" on the laws’ implementation, for an impact assessment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN researchers have created a new method to manufacture groups of different kinds of proteins they claim is much faster than traditional genetic engineering systems. A group of scientists from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), in Heidelberg, Germany, and colleagues in Britain, France, Switzerland and Sweden have called their discovery "the first fully automated pipeline for the production of multiprotein complexes", or ACEMBL, said a European Commission note.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) research network Eureka has developed computerised equipment forecasting gas consumption up to 48 hours in advance to help smaller suppliers compete with large utilities. The INTELLGAS project involved partners from Germany, Slovenia and South Korea developing hardware and software measuring gas consumption figures and predicting consumption based on historic use data and temperature forecasts.…

By Leah Germain

New research from may lead to the early detection of preeclampsia, a condition that threatens eight million pregnant women’s livers and kidneys worldwide each year, says a study released by the University of Auckland.

Its researchers examined blood samples from pregnant women who have been pregnant for at least 20 weeks and pinpointed a set of 33 proteins recorded at abnormal levels, which may serve in tests as an indicator in the blood of pregnant women who are at risk of developing preeclampsia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A COMPREHENSIVE report from a European Union (EU) think-tank has highlighted the success of Germany in fighting recession within its domestic car market and preventing full-time lay-offs. The paper ‘Recent restructuring trends and policies in the automotive sector’, has been released by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, a Dublin-based EU agency.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

STANDFIRST

The Indian clothing sector is emerging from its traditional image as an outsourcing-hub image and establishing its own brands that sell modern design and high quality garments in the international market. A resurgent economy still growing during the current global economic downturn and the official encouragement of entrepreneurial freedom have brought forward talented designers to challenge established names in the business.…

By Leah Germain

Telecommunications giant Nokia Siemens Networks has just received a Euro 250 million loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to support the research and development of cutting edge Radio Access Network technology (RAN).

The company is a global joint venture is run by Finland’s Nokia Corp with Germany’s Siemens AG.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A NEW system of gathering food health data across the European Union (EU) appears to have marred an annual comparative study from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), with Britain’s data collection being indirectly criticised.

While the UK appears to have received a relative clean bill of health regarding food-related illnesses, statistical anomalies probably explain the results, with Britain supplying insufficient information.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

YOU might think, given the preponderance of doomsayers predicting drought and desertification in Europe because of global warming, that the rainfall data would back them up.

But on a continent-wide scale, it does not.

A report on water scarcity issued by the European Environment Agency (EEA) earlier this year noted that "precipitation in Europe generally increased over the twentieth century, rising by 6-8 % on average between 1901 and 2005".…