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STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

FIGURES from European Union (EU) statistical agency Eurostat have shown how sharply some populations in Europe will fall by 2050, potentially creating serious excess capacity in higher education institutions. Germany and Italy illustrate this most starkly. Eurostat projects that Germany’s 2005 population of 82.6 million will fall to 74.6 million in 2050; and while there were 58.2 million Italian residents in 2005, there will be just 52.7 million in 2050.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament has issued a highly critical report on the European Union’s (EU) continued failing to contain fraud and the weaknesses of anti-fraud unit OLAF. The paper calls for rationalisation of OLAF’s powers, even now split amongst different laws: these should "be grouped together in a single regulation," said the parliament.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE ISSUE of whether public money should fund stem cell research is set to become a controversial topic again, with funding restrictions being tabled by MEPs for the European Union’s (EU) oncoming seventh framework programme (FP7). These include banning "research activities intended to create human embryos solely for the purpose of research or for the purpose of stem cell procurement".…

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OPPOSITION is being voiced within the European Union (EU) to the growing trend of banning smoking in bars and pubs, says an opinion poll by EU pollsters Eurobarometer. While across the EU, 61% of citizens polled support these bans, there were majorities against them in significant countries.…

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THE EUROPEAN Commission has concluded an overlap in Netherlands fleet leasing and management services is not sufficiently serious to block a planned takeover of international leasing and body repair company Athlon by a subsidiary of Holland’s Rabobank.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) anti-fraud unit OLAF is always at the centre of Brussels’ efforts to suppress the torrents of financial crime that mar its well-intentioned efforts. OLAF’s old boss has been reappointed, but there’s still trouble afoot. Keith Nuthall reports.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is taking another serious step towards developing viable transport systems running on hydrogen, whose only emission is water. Following the success of its CUTE trials of hydrogen buses in large cities such as London, the EU is launching two more projects.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

A projected fall in population for a number of EU countries by 2050 has given rise to widespread concern in the EU institutions about the consequences for higher education. According to the EU statistical agency Eurostat, Germany’s population of 82.6 million will fall to 74.6 million in 2050 and Italy’s from 58.2 to 52.7 million with smaller falls for other countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN UNPRECEDENTED joint paper from the European Commission and European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Javier Solana calls for the EU to diversify its energy sources beyond Russia. In particular, the paper suggests the EU looks closer to home: at Algeria and Turkey.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

FIGURES from European Union (EU) statistical agency Eurostat have shown how sharply some populations in Europe will fall by 2050, potentially creating serious excess capacity in higher education institutions. Germany and Italy illustrate this most starkly. Eurostat projects that Germany’s 2005 population of 82.6 million will fall to 74.6 million in 2050; and while there were 58.2 million Italian residents in 2005, there will be just 52.7 million in 2050.…