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BY KEITH NUTHALL
AFTER years of doing nothing, and then years of erecting complex bureaucratic controls, the European Union (EU) is at last starting to get its act together on controlling fraud. Keith Nuthall reports.

IN a filthy flat, not properly cleaned for years, moving the odd cupboard and shining a torch on the floor is sure to highlight a few cockroaches, scuttling for safety towards some Godforsaken corner.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GREECE has warned of a potential EU olive oil glut, calling on the European Commission to postpone a planned low or zero duty import quota. It, plus Italy, Spain, Cyprus and Slovenia warned the EU Council of Ministers of strong 2005 European production, because of excellent climate conditions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHEESE sold as ‘Feta’ within the EU must be made in Greece mainland or on Lesbos island by traditional methods, the European Court of Justice has ruled.…

BY MARK ROWE
IN times of conflict, cultural property, such as archaeological sites, works of art, museums and monuments, can also suffer grievously at the hands of opposing military and guerrilla forces. In recognition of this, such objects are accorded protection by the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
AIR travel may give you thrombosis but sometimes it can also deliver real gains to medical science. A group of European scientists has discovered an odd fact: that air passing over an aircraft’s wing to give it lift behaves like blood circulating in a human body when it meets an implanted device.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GREEK government has successfully overturned at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) an order from the European Commission that it re-coup a quarter of a Euro 9.9 million European Union (EU) subsidy paid to olive oil producers storing excess stock.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) management committee for wine has agreed that Hungary be allowed to make a “crisis distillation” of 400,000 hectolitres of table wine, paying subsidies of Euro 1.914 per hectolitre times the percentage of alcohol by volume (abv) and 100,000 hl of quality wine at Euro 2.30 per hectolitre per % abv.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNESCO, the UN’s scientific and cultural organisation, has launched a filter removing arsenic from water and which could save tens of millions of lives. Unveiled at its headquarters in Paris, UNESCO said the filter was “simple and ecologically sound”, using as an absorbent recycled iron oxide coated sand produced as a by-product in groundwater treatment plants “available at no cost almost everywhere”.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has decided on an unchanged figure of Euro 450 million for conversion and restructuring in the European Union’s wine sector in 2005/6 in spite of a high level of compulsory distillation this year so far.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has banned poultry meat and live bird exports from Romania into the European Union (EU) following the confirmation of its bird flu outbreak and the earlier imposition of an import ban of live birds and feathers from Turkey for the same region.…