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STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

ATTEMPTS to duck increased pollution clean-up costs imposed by the revised European Union (EU) bathing water directive have sparked 11 separate legal actions by the European Commission. It has reacted promptly to a massive delisting of 7,000 official bathing water sites by 11 EU governments, to avoid having to comply with new cleanliness standards.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE GREEK government may lose a European Court of Justice (ECJ) case, where the European Commission has argued special licences for bake-off product retailers in Greece illegally restricts trade. An ECJ advocate general has advised the court rules against these controls.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRAZEN political manoeuvres to duck increased pollution clean-up costs imposed by the revised European Union (EU) bathing water directive have sparked 11 separate legal actions by the European Commission. It has reacted promptly to a massive delisting of 7,000 official bathing water sites by 11 EU governments, to avoid having to comply with new cleanliness standards.…

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

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced its latest tranche of subsidies to European Union (EU) food and drink producer organisations paying for non-EU sales promotion. They cover Euro 1.7 million on Spanish cheese, Euro 420,000 on Italian cheese and Euro 787,000 on Greek olives, amongst other products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A RESEARCH and development consortium supported by the European Union (EU) is preparing to commercially launch a microwave sensor that can detect faults in moulded polyurethane before it hardens into heels and outer soles. The Microshoe project aimed to reduce defective parts, which can account for 20% of polyurethane created by shoe manufacturers, increasing costs markedly.…

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 ALAN OSBORN

INTRODUCTORY PAR

THERE are two common characteristics of the six European countries – Luxembourg, Greek Cyprus, Malta, Andorra, Liechtenstein and Iceland – which possess only a single university covering a range of disciplines. They are small in terms of population and the financial relationship between the university and the government is much closer than in other countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BIRD flu has reached Africa, the Office International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation, has confirmed, citing an outbreak in Kaduna state, northern Nigeria involving 46,000 cases. The news poses a dismal outlook for efforts to contain the disease given sub-Saharan Africa’s shambolic regulatory and veterinary controls, and international health workers will inevitably fear the worst.…

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."…