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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE COST to Britain’s exchequer of refusing to participate in the European Union’s legal agreement with Philip Morris over illicit cigarette trades has become clearer with the European Commission dividing up the spoils. PMI has promised to pay US$1 billion over 12 years to the European Commission and 10 European Union (EU) member states who have participated in the deal, with the cigarette giant already handing over US$325 million.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

KOSOVO differs from all other countries that the Money Laundering Bulletin has surveyed so far in the context of money laundering in that it has no defined and internationally recognised final shape – neither in respect of its borders nor in the composition of its government.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels

THE DETAILED guts and sinews of the European Research Area have been revealed in the shape of 35 large-scale research projects that will involve the swapping and analysing of data on a major scale.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

INNOVATIVE recycling projects are to prosper from European Union (EU) grants under the Euro 66 million EU LIFE-Environment programme this coming year, the European Commission has announced. Although they are not based in the UK, these recycling projects will develop new technology and systems that can be applied freely in Britain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU) funded research project has developed a system for integrating tiny stainless-steel wires within fabrics, which are designed to ferry information about the wearer’s vital signs to electronic monitors. The aim of the Euro 4 million WEALTHY project has been to create a "groundbreaking woven sensing interface to be worn without any discomfort" that can be plugged into monitors at home or work, downloading important medical data to doctors at remote locations.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE LONG-AWAITED communication from the European Commission on alcohol has been predictably well received by a drinks industry, which had feared Brussels would burden them with marketing restrictions. At times in recent months producers had frankly feared they would be forced to print health warnings on labels, to restrict or censor advertising and possibly even to accept higher taxes to reduce consumption.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced it will spend Euro 450 million on upgrading European Union (EU) vineyard production during 2006-7, helping EU wine producers fend off New World competitors. The money will go on varietal conversion, relocating vineyards and improving vineyard management, although not routine replanting.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRITISH fishermen have been allocated one of the smaller national envelopes of money from the incoming European Fisheries Fund (EFF), whose money has now been split amongst European Union (EU) member states by the European Commission. Out of the Euro 3.8 billion available from 2007 to 2013, only Euro 122 million has been allocated to the UK.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE EUROPEAN Commission has drastically watered down a European Union (EU) alcohol abuse action plan, which health campaigners fear was in response to a powerful lobbying campaign earlier this year by the drinks industry. Earlier drafts from Brussels indicated that producers would have been forced to print health warnings on labels and restrict or censor advertising.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels, and KEITH NUTHALL

1. One of the EU’s difficulties is that few new power stations are being built. How might a common energy policy meet this deficiency as regards renewable energy and CHP, given that national governments seem reluctant to ensure more capacity?…