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BY KEITH NUTHALL

ANOTHER step is being taken this year towards the commercialisation of hydrogen-powered vehicles, with the launch of a European Union (EU)-funded research project involving workers running standard h-cars in their every-day lives. Called ZERO_REGIO, the project will see five Frankfurt airport employees and three local government officials from Mantova, northern Italy, driving DaimlerChrysler DC-A-Classe and Fiat Panda hydrogen-fuelled cars respectively.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

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WITH the approval in May of two key regulations covering respectively nutrition and health claims and the addition of vitamins and minerals to foods the EU has taken an important step forward in setting the legal framework for the food industry in Europe.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has called in a green paper for European Union (EU) member states to reveal the beneficiaries of Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) subsidies, whose management is shared by national governments and EU institutions. Brussels’ anti-fraud Commissioner Siim Kallas has been informally asking member states for a year to unveil data on subsidy claimants, because that would discourage fraudulent applications by farmers, food processors and storage facilities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has called in a green paper for European Union (EU) member states to reveal the beneficiaries of Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) subsidies, whose management is shared by national governments and EU institutions. Brussels’ anti-fraud Commissioner Siim Kallas has been informally asking member states for a year to unveil data on subsidy claimants, because that would discourage fraudulent applications by farmers, food processors and storage facilities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A POLITICAL battle is underway at the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers over whether EU import duties on unwrought aluminium should be retained or scrapped. The struggle pits Poland and eight other member states against Germany, which wants the current 6% duties retained.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers and the European Parliament have approved a new fishing agreement with Morocco, despite controversy over its covering waters off the disputed territory of the Western Sahara. The Polisario Liberation Front has since 1975 been fighting Morocco for self-determination over the largely desert territory.…

BY MARK ROWE, in Xian, China

THE FACE that China’s museum sector presents to the world might have looked very different had a farm labourer chosen another part of a remote field near the city of Xian in 1974 to dig a well.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has fined seven companies Euro 388 million for forging a bleaching chemical cartel, which raised prices for customers, including the cosmetics and detergent sectors. The cartel swapped important commercially confidential information, limited production, allocated market shares and customers, while fixing and monitoring prices for hydrogen peroxide (HP) and perborate (PBS) from 1994 to 2000.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

WIND power is Europe’s big growth area for electricity generation, according to the latest comparative figures from European Union (EU) statistical agency Eurostat, with capacity growing by 154% between 2000 and 2004. Its report noted wind power "is responsible for more than half of the new generating capacity" in these years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

RUSSIA has sent another threat to Europe over gas supplies, undermining its reputation as a potential reliable energy partner for its western neighbours. Semyon Vainshtok, the president of Russia pipeline monopoly Transneft has told the daily newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta that Russia has "overfed Europe with crude".…