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Keith Nuthall
ALTHOUGH air traveller numbers fell last year, with the civil aviation industry still reeling from September 11, the global travel retail market grew by 5.3 per cent to US$20 billion in 2002. This took it back to the 2000 level, from which it had fallen the previous year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GEORGE W Bush may mot have an awful lot of time for either the United Nations or international law – especially as far as global warming is concerned – but in Europe, at least, its reach is growing wider.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation (ILO) report published to mark this week’s World Day for Safety and Health at Work has claimed that every year around two million lives and US$1.25 trillion of global economic earnings are lost to work-related accidents and illnesses.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TECHNICAL and administrative units devoted to the development of the European Union’s EGNOS and GALILEO global positioning initiatives are to be merged. EGNOS – the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service – should be fully operational by next year and Brussels has asked EU ministers to approve placing it under the supervision of the GALILEO Joint Undertaking, which includes both the Commission and the European Space Agency.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PROGRESS has been made in negotiations between the European Union and Canada over a wide-ranging wine and spirits industry deal, according to EU agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler. He told a meeting of the EU Council of Ministers for agriculture and fisheries that a draft agreement was ready for approval.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has signalled a move within Europe to cutting subsidies promoting increases in fishing industry capacity, formally proposing that all such grants and tax breaks in the fisheries sector worldwide should be banned. Brussels has tabled such a proposal at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on behalf of the 15 EU member countries, saying it was part of the EU’s commitment to sustainable development, which was a key goal of the WTO’s ongoing Doha development round talks.”…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE IRAQ war and related global instability forcing up oil prices have helped increase India’s oil import bill for the year to March to IND Rupees 840 billion (US$17.5 billion), said national oil minister Ram Naik. He added that the country had diversified its oil supply sources before the conflict, reversing a previous reliance on Kuwait.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS with many projects inspired by the start of the next 997 years and the last three, the framing of the United Nations’ (UN) Millennium Development Goals was an ambitious enterprise.

Imposing statistically measurable targets for international organisations and national governments in making improvements in global poverty, education, gender equality, health, the environment and education, they have proved tough to attain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MEXICAN government is has launched formal disputes talks at the World Trade Organisation, over claims that the United States’ reimposition of anti-dumping duties on its exports of ‘oil country tubular goods’ broke global trading regulations. Mexico City says Washington’s erred during its 2001 sunset review of the duties, assessing whether abolition might attract cut-priced Mexican pipelines.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is talking closely to concerned environmental groups before agreeing to release US$300 million to build the planned key Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil and gas pipeline from the Caspian Sea to Turkey’s Mediterranean coast.…