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BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMANY has been authorised by the European Commission to subsidise the bio-fuel subsidiary of national sugar giant Südzucker AG with Euro 43 million financing investment in a plant producing bio ethanol (and feedingstuffs) from cereals and sugar treacle.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW European Commission report has raised concerns that while efforts are being made by European Union (EU) institutions, not enough done to raise people in work out of poverty. It says that while “low pay is obviously an important risk factor…being low-skilled and remaining in unstable and often part-time employment, can also lead to poverty”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW group of specialists and academics forged by the European Commission will focus on the cancer risks associated with environmental and nutritional factors, as well as individual susceptibility. This ‘Network of Excellence’ ECNIS (environmental cancer, nutrition and individual susceptibility) is the latest group established to link experts from across the European Union (EU), under the European Research Area policy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and its member states should gove more priority to fighting infectious diseases, an international working group of experts has claimed. Writing for the European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC), the report said EU governments should better coordinate their actions against a problem that respects no political borders.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Ombudsman has asked the European Parliament to censure European Union (EU) anti-fraud unit OLAF for making what he considers “false statements” in one of his inquiries. P. Nikiforos Diamandouros has taken this unusual step over claims made by OLAF that a journalist had bribed a European Commission official to secure documents about the EU’s Eurostat financing scandal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has unveiled plans to lend German wastewater treatment operator Entsorgungsverband Saar (EVS) Euro 200 million to extend and modernise its wastewater treatment and sewerage system. The utility serves the ex-heavy industry state of Saarland, on the border with France.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
CHINA’S massive economic growth and foreign infiltration is posing significant challenges for China’s paint and coatings industry according to Asiacoat.com, the website of the National Paint and Coatings Industry Information Centre. The country produced 1.64 million tonnes of paint and coatings for the whole of 2003, on average 22%, up from 2002 year-on-year.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
BUSINESS has not been simple of late for China’s paint and coatings industry because of the country’s massive economic growth and foreign infiltration, according to Asiacoat.com, the website of the National Paint and Coatings Industry Information Centre. The country produced 1.8 million tonnes of paint for the whole of 2004, and 1.1 million tonnes of architectural coatings, said the Centre in recently released figures.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A HEAVYWEIGHT European international consortium will spend Euro 20 million on trying to develop commercially-viable flat plastic light sources, that could be moulded to fit spaces in homes and offices. The OLLA project (‘high brightness Organic Light-emitting diodes for information technology and Lighting Applications’) aims to build on basic research into these materials.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IT won’t be long now before British and other European sugar beet growers find out exactly what kind of future they have – and even, in some cases, whether it’s worth them staying in the game at all.…