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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament is pressing for an effective re-nationalisation of European Union (EU) powers to support the continued existence of an EU cotton production industry. In non-binding amendments to a proposed EU subsidy system largely disconnected from cotton production levels, MEPs have called for national funds earmarked for wide-ranging actions protecting the industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally threatened Greece and Latvia with legal action at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for failing to publish national energy efficiency action plans as required by the European Union (EU) energy services directive.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MORE than a fifth of European teenagers are overweight or obese, failing to eat sufficient fruit and vegetables, while exercising too little the European Union (EU) HELENA project has warned.

British youths were among the 3,000 13-17-year-olds studied by HELENA (healthy lifestyle in Europe by nutrition in adolescence) researchers, along with adolescents in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Spain and Sweden.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) passenger road transport sector is set for constant expansion until 2030, according to a new detailed report written for the European Commission. It predicts that 2005’s EU passenger numbers by private (and fleet) cars and motorcycles of 4,714 gpkm (one billion passengers carried over one kilometre) will rise to 5,115 by 2010; 5,498 in 2015; 5,849 in 2020; 6,171 in 2025; and 6,441 by 2030.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MORE than a fifth of European teenagers are overweight or obese, failing to eat sufficient fruit and vegetables, the European Union (EU) HELENA project has warned.

HELENA (healthy lifestyle in Europe by nutrition in adolescence) researchers assessed 3,000 13-17-year-olds in Austria, Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Spain and Sweden.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) road haulage sector is set for constant expansion until 2030, according to a new detailed report written for the European Commission. It predicts that 2005’s EU freight transport total haulage of 2,464 gtkm (one billion tonnes carried over one kilometre) will rise to 2,770 by 2010; 3,061 in 2015; 3,321 in 2020; 3,546 in 2025; and 3,717 by 2030.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN EXPERT report for the European Commission has concluded that additional efforts are required by the European Union (EU) and its member states, or the target of increasing renewables’ share of EU energy consumption to 20% will be missed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

GREECE has signed an agreement with Russia over routing the Moscow-Italy coordinated South Stream pipeline project through its territory, with outgoing Russian president Vladimir Putin denying it posed a threat to the rival Nabucco project. Putin told a Kremlin press conference with Greece prime minister Kostas Karamanlis that South Stream would be the "most optimal and competitive" pipeline system serving Europe, and would "help energy security".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament has backed European Commission proposals to increase the current European Union (EU) minimum excise tax rate on diesel to match that for unleaded petrol. However, MEPs have proposed phasing the increase from diesel’s current Euro 302/1,000 litres rate to unleaded petrol’s Euro 359/1,000 by 2015, with Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania having until 2016, but Spain, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal and Greece acting immediately.…

By Alan Osborn

Greece has violated EU laws by maintaining rights that give the state-owned electricity company Public Power Corporation (PPC) quasi-exclusive access to lignite, the cheapest source of electricity in the country, said the European Commission. Brussels said Greece had infringed Article 86 of the EC Treaty, which ensures the application of competition laws to public corporations, and Article 82, which prohibits abuse of a dominant market position.…