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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE GREEK government, beset by a financial crisis and political turbulence in Athens, has another problem to worry about – a nuclear energy legislation case against it at the European Court of Justice (ECJ).

This legal action is being taken by the European Commission, which accuses Greece of failing to implement the latest European Union (EU) directive on the supervision and control of shipments of radioactive waste and nuclear spent fuel (directive 2006/117/Euratom).…

BY MAKKI MARSEILLES and KEITH NUTHALL

IT can only be hoped that the Euro 750 billion financial package announced by the European Union (EU) this weekend prevents Greece’s debt crisis affecting other EU member states.

If it does, then some breathing space will be bought to examine the weaknesses in the single currency – and clearly one of those is the provision of financial data by Eurozone member governments.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IN a month highlighting that many European Union (EU) countries are living beyond their financial means, it was timely perhaps for the European Commission to note that member states also have unsustainable water policies.

In short, many EU governments are failing to prevent the abstraction of fresh water at rates exceeding nature’s ability to replenish supplies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has signalled it is unlikely to intervene to prevent the proposed takeover of Ukraine’s gas pipeline network by Russia’s Gazprom. Displaying his relatively relaxed attitude to closer energy links with Moscow, new German EU energy Commissioner Günter Oettinger told a press conference: "The decision has to come between Kiev and Moscow and not in Brussels."…

BY MIRIAM ELDER

WHILE the government of the Russian Federation has made real efforts to fight money laundering – as documented recently in the Money Laundering Bulletin – the problem remains rampant in this resource-rich country, according to Russian and international experts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CALLS have been made for major additional spending on European Union (EU) energy infrastructure, now a new European Commission team is in office.

The European Parliament’s industry committee has strengthened EU proposals to ensure member states have sufficient interconnected energy links to deal with any unexpected winter shortages.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MISLEADING past data released by Greek governments about the country’s finances has sparked European Commission into proposing additional investigative powers for Eurostat, the European Union’s (EU) statistical agency. Brussels has asked EU ministers to give Eurostat "additional rights of access" to "central, state, local and social security" public authority accounts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) RAPEX consumer alert service has reported a spate of sales bans and withdrawals of clothes with drawstrings, because of concerns that they could strangle wearers. Last week RAPEX publicised sales bans in Bulgaria of China-made J.S.J.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has effectively accused Greece of fraud over its misreporting of government deficit figures. As the country teeters towards potential financial default, a report on repeated errors in financial data said the European statistical checking system run by European Union (EU) statistical agency Eurostat and national agencies had been undermined.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MARIA Damanaki, the Greek leftist nominated to become the next European Union (EU) fishing Commissioner from February 1, has promised a tough line on conserving fishing stocks. A senior member of Greece’s current socialist PASOK governing party, she has a far left background, having been a Greek communist MP in the past.…