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BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN and 10 other European Union (EU) member states have been attacked by an unusual alliance of electrical goods manufacturers and environmentalists for failing to properly implement the EU WEEE directive on waste from electrical and electronic equipment.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels, and KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union VAT fraud is still growing at such a pace, that the accuracy of member states’ trade statistics remains under serious threat, a recent seminar of tax experts and accountants sponsored by the European Commission concluded.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has dispatched 1.5 million doses of trivalent vaccine to fight foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in Thrace, Turkey, on the European mainland, near the country’s borders with Greece and Bulgaria. Brussels is concerned that FMD is endemic in parts of Turkey, especially with two outbreaks being reported this year close to the European Union, where livestock has free movement.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ITALIAN and Greek governments have signed an agreement to build a gas interconnector between their countries, filling a missing link in the growing pipeline network bringing gas to western Europe from Turkey, the Caucasus and central Asia.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A CENTRAL purpose of the European Union’s (EU) second money laundering directive (sometimes called 2MLD amongst officials) that came into effect in 2003 was to extend to estate agents, along with other similar professions, the anti-money laundering (AML) controls until then had applied only to banks and one or two other financial institutions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) member states have given a cool reception to the European Commission’s January energy package on forging a tough EU-wide programme of boosting energy capacity in Europe. At a special EU Council of Ministers meeting, a majority of governments, including the UK, opposed a proposed binding 2020 target of sourcing 20% of all energy consumption from renewable sources.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is catching up with the United States in innovation, a European Commission-financed statistical report has claimed, although the US still has many significant advantages. This year’s European Innovation Scoreboard (2006) concludes: “The innovation gap between the EU [minus new members Bulgaria and Romania] and Japan, and in particular with the US is decreasing.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GREEK government is being taken to the European Court of Justice by the European Commission over its alleged failure to abide by the European Union single sky regulation and create a national supervisory authority, mandated with tasks such as air navigation service provider certification.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH
GREECE will be one of the last of the last countries in the European Union

(EU) to possess any common stigma in cigarette smoking – if it ever will.

There is a disdain and defiance of those who, for whatever reasons, disapprove of the habit.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project is targeting a receptor molecule protein called CD40 commonly found on cancerous cells, in developing a drug stimulating immune systems into attacking tumours. The Apotherapy project includes German pharmaceutical company Novosom, the University of Crete Medical School, in Greece, and scientists from universities in Helsinki and Uppsala, Finland.…