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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project is developing a plastic film surgeons can insert in eyes to replace natural lenses clouded by cataracts. The MIRO programme has used a Euro 1.18 million EU grant to create a film thin and malleable enough to roll, enabling new microsurgery techniques involving incisions of 1.5mm.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
BRITAIN employs more psychiatric nurses on a per capital basis than other major EU countries according to the 2005 world mental health atlas compiled by the World Health Organisation (WHO). This shows the UK had 104 psychiatric nurses per 100,000 of population compared to 99 in the Netherlands, 98 in France and only 52 in Germany.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the acquisition of German clothing company Kunert by the Deutsche Bank, Britain’s Hardt Group Private Equity Partners I and Trafalgar Group, as well as Cayman Islands investor ECO Master Fund Ltd. Kunert manufactures socks, stockings, tights, underwear and outer clothing, under its own brand names Kunert and Hudson, with licensed brands Burlington, Bruno Banani, MEXX and Calvin Klein.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded research project IntelliDrug is developing an oral drug delivery device placed next to a patient’s teeth, allowing them to eat and speak without impediment. The kit even looks similar to natural teeth and would be installed in the dental arch, said a European Commission note.…

Keith Nuthall
A HEALTHY-DOSE of Nordic culture has been prescribed by the world’ premier anti-corruption organisation Transparency International, which has again hailed northern Europe as the region most free of graft, bribes and kickbacks. Such financial crime is rarest in Iceland, says the 2005 corruption rankings from the German group, with Finland and New Zealand tying at second place, Denmark, fourth, Sweden sixth, and Norway eighth.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s ‘rapid alert system for food and feed’ RASFF has reported a series of salmonella contaminations within pigmeat. Italian authorities have detected it in meat from Germany (three outbreaks), Belgium and Spain. RASFF has also reported salmonella discovered in Estonia within Lithuanian chicken thighs, and in Italy amongst Hungarian frozen eviscerated ducks and chitterlings.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has added a range of meat products to the scope of a directive that would limit the use of certain additives in food. In amendments at first reading, that will require support from European Union (EU) ministers to become law, MEPs said a number of traditionally cured meat products from Spain, Germany and eastern European countries should be subject to sodium nitrate and potassium nitrate residue limits.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PRINTING supplies companies paid together hundreds-of-thousands of dollars in kickbacks to the toppled Saddam Hussein regime, the Independent Inquiry Committee into the UN Iraq Oil for Food programme scandal has claimed. More than 30 suppliers of printing machines, paper, inks, etc.,…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OIL price rises wrought by Hurricane Katrina and endemic strong global demand have encouraged European Union (EU) energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs to press ahead with his plans to promote energy conservation in the EU. He has released a paper stressing the need to accelerate the European Action Plan on energy efficiency and also to promote more effective international action on the topic bilaterally and through the International Energy Agency.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EURO 15 million fine imposed by the European Commission on DaimlerChrysler for alleged illegal anti-competitive actions involving Spanish leasing companies has been lifted. The company had prevented German agents and Spanish dealers from supplying Mercedes-Benz cars to leasing companies before they secured customers, something Brussels said broke European Union (EU) competition laws.…