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BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved a plan by Greece to put 340,000 hectolitres of table wine and 40,000 hectolitres of quality wine into crisis distillation following a collapse in prices. Brussels said there had been a “worrying rise in stocks” and in order to remedy the difficult market situation, “stocks of Greek wine should be reduced to a level that can be regarded as normal in terms of covering market requirements.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ANTI-DRUG officials in the European Union (EU) have confessed to being such cultural dinosaurs, it was five years after reports about ecstasy emerged in youth, music and lifestyle magazines before they started collecting and reporting data on the drug.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BIRD flu is still ravaging Indonesian poultry production, according the latest figures released by the Office International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation. They show producers culling millions of chickens across Java and south Celebes farms and villages to prevent the disease spreading.…

KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas has thrown in the towel over persuading the USA to sign the Kyoto Protocol. However, the Greek has committed himself to involving Washington in negotiations to create an anti-global warming agreement that takes the world beyond the Kyoto deadline of 2012.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EURO 4.72 million fine should make anyone mend their ways; anyone, it seems, bar the Greek government, which is facing possible further legal action for not cleaning-up the illegal waste dump causing the original punishment. This was at the mouth of the beautiful River Kouroupitos, Crete, and was only closed after Athens paid many Euro 20,000 daily penalties for ignoring a European Court of Justice (ECJ) closure order in 2000.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A BAN on travellers carrying cigarettes across Cyprus’ so-called Green Line between northern Turkish Cyprus and the internationally recognised Greek state to the south has been lifted by the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers. In future individuals will be able to carry 70 cigarettes each across the fortified border.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) research network Eureka is developing a research project to extract pure collagen hydrolysates from solid leather production wastes. The study currently has a Euro 1.8 million budget, which should grow over its four-year life, until 2008.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) statistical agency Eurostat should gain formal independence from the European Commission, helping it freely assess European and national government accounts. An EU Council of Ministers (finance) resolution said: “Eurostat should be in a better position to analyse the quality of reported public finance data”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched an infringement proceeding against Greece to “prevent (future) incorrect or incomplete data transmission” about its government’s public finances. Greece has admitted that it made “errors” in its national statistics, allowing it to remain within the good housekeeping rules governing the Euro.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced it will table accounting reforms for all European Union (EU) national statistics offices, following the recent revelation of errors in Greece’s public spending figures. The proposals will underline national offices’ “independence, integrity and accountability”, granting EU statistical agency Eurostat control and inspection rights.…