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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is planning to propose a directive writing into European Union (EU) law the target accepted by EU ministers earlier this year that 20% of Europe’s energy be renewable by 2020.

Speaking to a Paris energy conference, EU energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs said: “By the end of this year, I will table a new ‘umbrella renewables directive’.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FORMAL merger approval has been granted by the European Commission to the acquisition of women’s clothing designer and retailer CBR Holding GmbH (CBR) of Germany by investment group EQT V Limited, of the Channel Islands, itself owned by Investor AB, of Sweden.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

GERMANY-BASED Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics scientists have developed a new computer code that will enable them to calculate and predict kinks appearing on the exterior of electro-magnetic fields containing the super-heated plasma core of the ITER fusion reactor.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FREIGHT Transport Association (FTA) has called for British hauliers to adopt the same road worthiness standards abroad than at home, after a European Commission statistical report indicated a flawed safety record driving in other European Union (EU) countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH the European Union (EU) now committed to pushing the share of renewable energy in the EU electricity market to 20% by 2020, the various arms of the green power sector are fighting for assistance from Brussels and EU member states.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS concerns increase about the security of the European Union’s (EU) supplies of oil and gas, the European Commission has put in place a network of security experts charged with monitoring threats to the EU’s energy flows and raising alarms if necessary.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in Westminster
ENERGY experts, officials and politicians from around the word have told a senior London conference ‘The New Politics of Energy: Europe in a Global Context’ how with rapidly global energy markets changing rapidly at present, the European Union is becoming more disadvantaged in coping with the coming new realities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel has called for EU table wines to be labelled with their grape variety and vintage year, abolishing a restriction that reserves such information for appellation wines. Speaking to the Intervitis Interfructa Conference, Stuttgart, Germany, she said: “This rule only ties down the marketing efforts for some of our producers.”…

BY ALAN OSBORN
As with many financial service providers in the EU, the definition of financial adviser differs, often significantly, from one country to another. In its very basic sense – i.e. the provision of financial advice pure and simple, without the add-on of other services that could involve the handling of client money – the profession of fee-paid advisor is a limited one and probably confined to only a few thousand people in Luxembourg, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNCHARTED depths of space are an unlikely inspiration for an innovative research project on sterilising medical equipment.

But it is the stuff of space – called by ‘plasma’ by physicists – that scientists want to use to kill lurking bacteria, viruses and even prions on dirty scalpels, clamps and catheters.…