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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE NUMBER of road deaths in Britain fell 47% from 2001 to 2010, making its roads the second safest in the European Union (EU) after Sweden, according to the latest comparative European Commission figures. There was a marked recent improvement too, with UK road deaths falling 18% between 2009 and 2010.…

BY MONIKA HANLEY, LEE ADENDORFF, MARK ROWE, ALAN OSBORN, MINDY RAN, GERARD O’DWYER and MARTINA MARECKOVA

FOR an industry that generates energy, heat and maybe cooling, the European cogeneration sector has been operating on a decidedly low output in recent years.…

BY MICHAEL KOSMIDES

Rocky times lie ahead for the food retail sector in Greece, as consumers are faced with increasing pressure in the debt-ridden country. With rising unemployment rates, which currently stand at about 16%; a 4.8% drop in the GDP for the first three months of 2011 alone; and price rises mainly due to two VAT increases last year – the spending power of Greek consumers has been reduced significantly, and the food industry is suffering because of it.…

BY MARK ROWE

CO-GENERATION (or combined-heat and power – CHP) plants operate using a variety of technologies: gas turbines, fuel cells, Stirling engines, gas or diesel engines and combined cycle gas turbines. According to the Joint Research Centre (JRC) – the European Union’s (EU) scientific and technical research body – natural gas is currently the preferred fuel across Europe for co-gen, with combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) and gas turbine plants expected to become the predominant future technology for large-scale units.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has told the Greek government it must recover Euro EUR17 million from Aluminium of Greece, having concluded these were a disguised illegal subsidy paid via lower electricity bills from 2007 to 2008. Following an 18 month inquiry, Brussels has concluded this support breaks European Union (EU) state aid rules, which are designed to prevent member states from giving local companies an unfair advantage in the EU’s border-free market.…

BY MICHAEL KOSMIDES

SEVEN years after the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, a few of the city’s Olympic venues are used and generate income, but most remain unused and with only basic maintenance. The original plan to let the venues for long term investment, raising income to finance the public operation of the rest foundered through Byzantine bureaucracy and poor central planning.…

BY MARGUERITE-JEANNE DESCHAMPS, MINI PANT ZACHARIAH and WANG FANGQING

While sales of alcohol in pubs and bars in North America, Europe and the UK have seen a steady decline since the global economic downturn, experts are saying the shift from on-trade to off-trade sales of alcohol has not really had a financial impact on the alcoholic beverage industry as a whole.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SCIENTISTS from a Euro EUR14.6 million research project are to unveil progress at a June 1-3 nanotechnology conference in Budapest on their goal of using nano-medicine to fight Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers in the NAD Project have tried to make a virtue out of the environmental concern that nano-particles can breach the blood-brain-barrier.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A SERIES of bilateral civil aviation agreements negotiated by the European Union (EU) have remained unenforced because some EU member states have failed to ratify their terms. The European Commission has issued a report branding this "unfortunate", noting this "has the consequence of delaying their entry into force".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has unveiled the cost of its ambitious plan for cutting European Union (EU) greenhouse gas emissions by 80-95% of 1990 levels by 2050. Brussels says that an additional targeted annual investment over the next 40 years is needed – equalling 1.5% of the EU’s GDP – or Euro EUR270 billion.…