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BY KEITH NUTHALL

FOOD producers and distributors in Vietnam are to receive assistance in raising their standards via Euro 38 million lent by the European Investment Bank (EIB) to Germany’s Metro Cash and Carry Vietnam Limited. This money will also help finance the construction of stores in Can Tho, Ho-Chi-Minh-City, Hanoi, Haiphong and Da Nang.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CATTLE prices rose across the European Union (EU) last year, according to the latest figures from EU statistical agency Eurostat, but fell for other livestock. Cattle prices increased by 3%, although with wide variations between member states: up 12.3% in Germany and 2.5% in France, but down 2.1% in Britain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DEBATES are continuing within EU institutions over whether vaccination is a safe response to bird flu. The EU’s standing committee on the food chain and animal health has approved limited vaccination in France and the Netherlands. But this was resisted by Austria, Denmark, Germany and Portugal, who fear vaccination’s potential cost, damage to consumer confidence and resulting overseas import bans.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

The European Commission has published a set of recommendations designed to make it easier for economically sound small and medium-sized businesses to change ownership. Brussels estimates that a third of EU entrepreneurs will retire through old age within the next ten years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DENMARK wants the European Commission to force the German government to restrict an annual cross-border shopping trade of around 400 million cans of beer. By signing a declaration that the beer will be exported Danish consumers avoid a surcharge designed to fund recycling within Germany.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

Outbreaks of classical swine fever have been reported at two pig farms in North-Rhine Westphalia in Germany, a region where the disease had been known to occur in wild boar. European Commission experts are helping determine whether there is any link between the cases.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend Euro 137.5 million to Germany’s Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann GmbH to help extend its Duisburg-Huckingen steel works coking plant capacity from 1.1 to 2.2 million tonnes per year. The low interest loan would cover half of the project’s overall Euro 275 million cost.The…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A DIPLOMATIC row between Germany and Denmark could have important implications for future drink can recycling levies that might be introduced in the UK. Denmark has formally requested the European Commission forces the German government to restrict an annual cross-border shopping trade involving Danish consumers buying around 400 million cans of beer in Germany.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

FOOD producers and distributors in Vietnam are to receive assistance in raising their standards because of Euro 38 million lent by the European Investment Bank (EIB) to Germany’s Metro Cash and Carry Vietnam Limited. This money will finance the construction of wholesale stores in five main Vietnamese cities: Can Tho, Ho-Chi-Minh-City, Hanoi, Haiphong and Da Nang.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DEBATES are continuing in European Union (EU) institutions over whether general vaccination is a safe response to Europe’s growing bird flu problem. With Germany, France, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Greece, Switzerland, Slovenia, Italy all reporting new cases, the EU’s Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health has approved the first vaccination campaigns.…