Search Results for: Greece

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CHEMOTHERAPY and radiotherapy maybe effective against cancer, but sometimes they are a sledgehammer to crack a nut, causing patients to suffer from so many side-effects they sometimes wished their tumours had been left alone.

And so it has long been the aim of pharmaceutical companies and cancer researchers to devise means of targeting therapies, so that it is the tumour that gets harmed, while the patient feels OK.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EURO 100,000 European food Safety Authority (EFSA) grant has been awarded to a consortium of European Union (EU) science consortia to investigate the impact of the so-called bee ‘colony collapse disorder’ on honey production.

Since 2003, there have been reports of serious losses of bees from beehives in Europe, with the cause being unknown, although possible factors include starvation, viruses, mites, pesticide exposure and climate change.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH

A LITTLE noticed event took place in Brussels last month when the European Union (EU) Court of Auditors awarded the president of the European Parliament Hans-Gert Pöttering its annual Gold Medal, citing "the co-operation between the two institutions in safeguarding the interests of the European taxpayers."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE MITIGATION measures taken by European Union (EU) utilities and member states to deal with the Russia-Ukraine gas crisis were effective, the EU’s Gas Coordination Group has concluded. Consisting of gas industry representatives from the EU’s 27 countries and chaired by the European Commission, the group concluded that protective steps taken "allowed most countries to successfully manage the situation in a way which is the least disruptive for their consumers".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced it wants Euro 3.5 billion of the general European Union (EU) economic recovery plan it announced in November spent on energy investment. It has proposed spending Euro 1.75 billion on gas and electricity interconnection projects; Euro 500 million on offshore wind power; and Euro 1.25 billion on carbon capture and storage.…

By Keith Nuthall

A group of European universities are banding together to create potentially valuable nanotechnology that could help pharmaceutical companies better target their anti-cancer drugs against tumours. The aim is to reduce the need to use wide-ranging chemotherapy and radiotherapy, which can cause patients to suffer from so many side-effects they sometimes wished their tumours had been left alone.…

BY ALAN OSBORN and PAUL COCHRANE

ONE of the aviation industry’s worst nightmares – the theft of credentials to access a major airline’s Citrix computer system by a criminally-controlled server – was uncovered in May this year by the US-based Internet security company Finjan.…

BY MAKKI MARSEILLES

GREECE is something of a paradox in the tobacco sector. Its citizens smoke more cigarettes per capita than anywhere else in the world, yet its government is increasing anti-smoking legislation and its long-established leaf growing sector is shrinking towards virtual extinction.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is taking legal action against three European Union (EU) countries over alleged breaches of EU water legislation. It will ask the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to impose potentially massive daily recurring fines of Euro 1,000s against Greece for breaking the EU urban waste water directive.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE GREEK government may have to repay the Euro 12.7 million in European Union (EU) development grants the European Commission says was wrongly paid to develop a new Athens International Airport at Spata. Greece has lost an appeal at the European Court of Justice Court of First Instance against a reimbursement demand from Brussels for money paid from its cohesion fund for regional development.…