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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is casting around for allies in central Asia and north Africa in its diplomatic tussle with Russia to secure cheap and reliable energy supplies. EU energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs has flown to Algeria to discuss closer energy ties with this major gas and oil producer.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that retailers can be held liable for selling alcohol bottles and cans misdeclaring their alcohol content – even when they are prepackaged and labelled in another EU member state. The precedent comes in a case involving supermarket giant Lidl selling a German spirit called ‘Amaro alle Erbe’ in Italy.…

BY MARK ROWE

DESPITE devastating hailstorms along Italy’s Adriatic Coast and concerns over damage from the olive fly, the forecast for the olive oil market for the 2006 season is positive, according to the International Olive Oil Council (IOOC).

"All the information available predicts a good harvest for this season" said a spokesman for the IOOC.…

BY CHRIS JONES, in Brussels, and KEITH NUTHALL

WORKERS laid off following Volkswagen’s closure of the Forest manufacturing plant in Belgium may be the first to benefit from a new Euro 500 million fund created to help European Union (EU) companies hit by problems caused through globalisation.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

TECHNOLOGY developed by Nazi Germany and Apartheid era South Africa to turn coal into oil could guarantee solid fuels markets well into the future, an American geological expert has claimed.

University of Washington Professor Emeritus Eric Cheney said making oil from coal by reacting it with water known as Fischer-Tropsch process could become commercially successful given sustained high oil prices.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

AN IMPORTANT step forward in the development of intelligent exhaust systems has been signalled by an announcement that the European Investment Bank (EIB) is to provide Euro 60 million (US$76 million) of finance to the German firm of Eberspächer GmbH, a world leader in the manufacture of exhaust systems for automobiles.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

JEANS company Diesel has lost a case at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) where it was trying to block Polish company Montex from exporting Diesel-branded jeans from Poland to Ireland, where it has no trademark protection. Diesel argued it had the right to stop consignments crossing Germany, even though they were destined for Ireland, because it did control German trademark rights to the brand.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has declared it will not give up on its plans to update minimum alcohol excise duty rates in the European Union (EU), despite the EU Council of Ministers failing to agree the changes yesterday (Tues).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WHEN academics think of European Union (EU) funding for their projects or institutions, they often consider the European Commission, with its high profile in education and research spending through its framework programmes. But there is another EU institution developing an increasingly important role as a financial fountainhead for European higher education: the European Investment Bank (EIB).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament has approved in principle a proposed European Union (EU) regulation which would allow police and other law enforcement officials within the EU’s Schengen open border area to inspect registration documentation held in all countries of this zone.…