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BY KEITH NUTHALL

MORE than a fifth (22%) of European Union (EU) motorists would not use their cars any less, even if dramatic improvements were made to local public transport systems, a European Commission-funded opinion poll has revealed. Conducted by pollsters Gallup amongst 25,767 people across the EU, the survey said British drivers are around the European average in this regard – at 19%.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced the payment of Euro 650,000 in subsidies over the next three years to help the Greek honey industry promote sales of its products within the European Union.

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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE STEREOTYPE of Europeans favouring public transport over private cars is deeply flawed according to a new European Commission-funded opinion poll that interviewed 25,767 people. Pollsters Gallup not only confirmed that private motor transport is the most widespread means of making journeys in the EU (53% of those polled drove rather than cycled, walked or took public transport), 22% of these motorists would not drive less, even with dramatic improvements to rail, bus, air and boat transport.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has failed to prove that the levying of national registration taxes on cars brought into Greece by non-resident European Union (EU) citizens who are transferred to that country for more than six months breaks EU law, the European Court of Justice has ruled.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has authorised for the first time trade honey and fish products, across the Green Line in Cyprus, separating the island’s Greek ad Turkish territories.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has said European Union (EU) public service workers are liable to pay excise duty on cars acquired in a foreign EU member state, when they are transferred abroad for more than 185 days.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
The Poseidon pipeline being built by Edison of Italy and DEPA of Greece to promote more effective competition on the Italian gas market is to be exempted from the third party access rules of the EU’s Gas Directive for a limited period of time, the European Commission has agreed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GREECE government is being threatened with legal action by the European Commission for failing to insist that Greek hauliers use digital tacographs. European Union (EU) legislation made digital tacographs mandatory for new heavy goods vehicles from May 1 last year, but the Commission has claimed in an announcement: “To date, Greece has still to establish the necessary legal and practical arrangements, including the issue of tachograph cards for drivers, companies, workshops and control officers.”…

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 Commission is poised to propose that European Union (EU) manufactured cars must emit a maximum of 130g/km of carbon dioxide by 2012. The Commission’s ruling ‘college’ will meet tomorrow (Wed) and its environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas is already stating publicly that EU ministers and the European Parliament will be asked to approve a compulsory cap.…