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BY ALAN OSBORN

FACT BOX

Population of Cyprus: 793,100

Number of students enrolled at university: 5,000 (see text)

Percentage of university students who are Cypriots: 90%

Percentage of Cypriots (excluding mature students) attending university in Cyprus or other countries: 80%

INTERVIEW

OUT of every ten young people who apply for a place at the University of Cyprus, only three actually gets admitted.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DEBATES are continuing in European Union (EU) institutions over whether general vaccination is a safe response to Europe’s growing bird flu problem. With Germany, France, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Greece, Switzerland, Slovenia, Italy all reporting new cases, the EU’s Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health has approved the first vaccination campaigns.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ITALY and Spain, supported by France, Greece, Portugal, Malta and Cyprus have called on the European Commission "to ensure the swift payment of its voluntary contribution to the International Olive Oil Council (IOOC) "to allow the resumption of its promotional activities."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE GREEK government has been censured by the European Parliament for its seizing of cars over the non-payment of road taxes and other administrative offences. Noting "a substantial number" of these cars had subsequently been auctioned MEPs said this was "incompatible with the principles of the European Union’s Charter of Fundamental Rights" and "not justified by any overriding requirements of enforcement and prevention".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission’s competition directorate general has said it will launch legal action against restrictive business practices and abuses of dominant positions in European Union (EU) gas markets. In a long awaited report, it promised to act against long-term downstream contracts and restricted access to capacity on gas pipelines, storage and inter-connectors between member states.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WHEN European Union (EU) consumers think of food, more associate it with "taste" – 31%, than with "pleasure" – 29%, "hunger" – 27%, "health" – 19% and "necessity" – 15%. As usual with culturally diverse Europe, however, there were wide national variations.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

THE MEDIA rush to pick up on the revival of nuclear energy as a serious UK option, made plain in the Department of Trade and Industry’s recent Energy Review consultation document, has diverted attention from which tail will, in practice, be wagging the UK energy dog over the coming months.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NEW tough fuel and road transport pollution standards have been proposed for the European Union (EU) by the European Commission, removing a loophole enabling sports utility vehicles (SUVs) to be covered by looser emission limits currently allowed for commercial vans.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

Greece has been ordered by the European Commission to lift its ban on the planting of GMO maize seeds developed by the American company Monsanto. The ban was introduced in April last year on the grounds that the plants presented a "health danger."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ITALY, Belgium, Greece, Malta, France, Spain, Hungary, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Portugal have called on the European Commission to support poultry producers hit by low prices because of bird flu outbreaks in Turkey and Romania.

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