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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally announced today (15-10) that England’s Staffordshire cheese, as well as traditional vegetable products from Germany and Spain, plus a German fish product, have been granted geographical indication protection within the European Union (EU).…

BY ANDREW SALMON, in Seoul

THE WORDS ‘nuclear’ and ‘Korea’ automatically conjure up images of Kim Jong-il’s underground atomic weapons programs, but south of the heavily militarised border, it is South Korea that has quietly built up one of the world’s most competitive nuclear industries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has declared illegal rules that insist European Union (EU) students wanting to study in a foreign EU state must continue a course subject they have already begun in their home country, if they want to receive a grant from the government of the country where they normally live.…

BY LUCY JONES, in Dallas, Texas, ALAN OSBORN, in London, and PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut.

AS American gas prices once again edge closer to the US$3 a gallon mark – the point at which an all-pervading quiet panic besets the US retail market – staff at the country’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s hotline know busy times are ahead.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

European Commission officials are deciding whether to launch legal action against 22 member states of the European Union (EU) who have failed to implement key legislation allowing researchers to move between EU universities. Because non-EU researchers have faced burdensome immigration procedures when undertaking research projects involving working at different European universities, the EU approved a ‘researchers’ visa’ directive in 2005, ordering member states to introduce a fast-track immigration system.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE ITALIAN government has been told to secure a levy of Euro 176 million from its dairy producers after allowing them to flood the European Union (EU) market with 617,000 tonnes of excess milk in 2006/7. The penalty was ordered by the European Commission under a system of national milk production quotas, to be scrapped by 2015.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

TACOGRAPH spotchecks by British highways officials and police have revealed that continental lorry drivers are far more likely to break European Union (EU) working time rules on UK roads than Britons. Looking at newest available EU-wide comparative data 27,418 of offenders detected in 2003-4 on British highways were UK citizens, while 11,565 were from the much smaller pool of drivers from other EU member states.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has secured approval for new European Union (EU) legislation that will force EU member states to improve their surveillance, monitoring and publicity regarding cases of bluetongue. With the disease rampaging across northwestern Europe, the EU’s Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health have agreed to make monitoring compulsory in all infected countries, while bluetongue-free member states must undertake "surveillance proportionate to the risk".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

GERMANY – once again the European Union’s economic powerhouse – is pushing ahead with innovative solutions to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, without damaging key automobile and other engineering industries. In an interview with the influential Berliner Zeitung newspaper, Germany’s deputy economy minister Joachim Wuermeling suggested automobile makers could be included in a revised "EU emissions trading scheme."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AGREEMENT has been struck at the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers over a law which will govern what personal data can be exchanged between EU member states’ law enforcement agencies. Some member states had been pushing for the law to govern the protection of personal police-held information within their own countries, but this was successfully resisted by Britain, Germany and others.…