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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned major international donors have given only 20% of the money needed to control bird flu in poultry and animals before the epidemic spreads again this winter. The FAO wants mass vaccination campaigns in east Asian countries such as Indonesia and Vietnam, where the disease is most entrenched and from where a global epidemic is most likely to spring.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is being pressed to fund France’s plan to establish a European Digital Library as a rival to US-based Internet search engines such as Google, which wants to scan 15 million books. A second meeting of the library’s advisory council also heard that Germany, Spain, Poland, Hungary and Italy have formally agreed to be involved in the project.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
DESPITE speculation of a reprieve for Germany’s condemned nuclear power sector, no swift change can be expected regarding the present phase-out following the inconclusive election. The German Atomic Forum has flatly told Utility Week it “remains bound by the agreement with the present government” on the nuclear wind-down.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
VETS and government officials of the 25 EU member states were due to meet in Brussels yesterday (Thursday) to consider whether more European farmers should be banned from keeping poultry outdoors as a precaution against bird flu. The Netherlands has already introduced a ban and Germany may follow suit in the next few weeks.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend Euro 149.6 million to Spanish electricity company Viesgo Generación to build a large natural gas-fired combined cycle generating plant in Spain, generating around 800 MWe. The project would entail constructing advanced gas-fired combined-cycle technology with a relatively low environmental impact in a poorer area of Spain.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
IT may never equal the four-fold rise in the price of a barrel of crude oil that took place between 1973 and 1974, but this year’s hike to more than US$60 a barrel has given all those industries dependent on the stability of fuel prices a severe shock, and the aviation industry is one of those reeling from the increases.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IMPORTERS of pullovers from China worried about the exhaustion of a new quota designed to limit Chinese clothing exports to the European Union (EU) may be offered a legal solution for ensuring their lines can enter the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) tobacco-advertising ban came into force on Sunday (July 31), prohibiting adverts in most print publications, radio and the Internet, although some countries – notably Germany – have not implemented the law. The 2003 tobacco-advertising directive would be, claimed EU health Commissioner Markos Kyprianou “one of the most effective ways of reducing smoking”.…

BY MARK ROWE
IT is difficult to separate the present-day Czech paint industry from the industrial heritage of the country. While the rest of the world made jokes about Skoda cars during the Communist era, the Czechs fumed as they saw a once great engineering industry reduced to a laughing stock.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) tobacco-advertising ban may have come into force on July 31, but it yet to be implemented in nine out of the 25 EU member states, the European Commission has admitted. Germany, Spain, Luxembourg, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Greece, Slovenia, Cyprus and Hungary have not notified Brussels with corresponding national prohibitions.…