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BY KEITH NUTHALL

A COMPREHENSIVE raft of new legislation designed to force the European Union (EU) into further reducing its greenhouse gas emissions has been tabled by the European Commission. As expected, it has proposed targets that biofuels command 10% of the EU’s liquid fuel consumption by 2020.…

BY Monica Dobie

A Hungarian university has shown that computer programmes and algorithms can accurately classify different types of dog barks, and in some instances better than trained dog lovers, according to new research published in the journal Animal Cognition.

Lead researcher, Csaba Molnár and his team from Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary analysed 6,000 barks from 14 Hungarian sheepdogs in six different situations: ‘stranger’, ‘fight’, ‘walk’, ‘alone’, ‘ball’ and ‘play’.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has added to its protected traditional designations list Portuguese ‘Transmontano’ pork products; Hungarian salami from Szeged; Italian Pecorino di Filiano cheese, Spain’s Cereza del Jerte cherries, Lenteja Pardina de Tierra de Campos lentils and Garbanzo de Fuentesaúco chickpeas; Cyprus’ Loukoumi Geroskipou confectionary; and Slovakia’s Skalický trdelník patisserie products.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

A NEW study has shown that computer programmes and algorithms can accurately classify different types of dog barks, and in some instances better than trained dog lovers, according to new research published in the journal Animal Cognition.

Lead researcher, Csaba Molnár and his team from Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary analysed 6,000 barks from 14 Hungarian sheepdogs in six different situations: ‘stranger’, ‘fight’, ‘walk’, ‘alone’, ‘ball’ and ‘play’.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has moved to protect eight traditionally made European food products from being copied by food manufacturers based outside the regions where they have historically been made. Brussels has added Portuguese ‘Transmontano’ pork products; Hungarian salami from Szeged; Italian Pecorino di Filiano cheese, and others to its list of protected designations list.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the takeover of Italian fuel retail chain – Italiana Energia e Servizi (IES) – by Hungary’s MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas. Brussels has imposed no conditions on the deal. IES also runs roadside catering services, as well as oil refineries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the proposed acquisition of the global biscuits, snacks and cereals business of France’s Danone by US-based Kraft. Brussels’ competition approval depends on Kraft selling off Spanish biscuit brands Artiach, Chiquilin, Filipinos and Marbú Dorada and a Spain biscuit production plant, along with Hungarian chocolate brand Balaton.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have backed the European Commission’s move to introduce private storage aid for pigmeat to fight current low prices. Under the programme, pigmeat producers can claim EU aid when storing meat for between three and five months.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament has toughened proposed European Union (EU) legislation on the production of pesticides, but has pulled away from backing some major restrictions on the use of these chemicals. In a first reading of an EU directive and regulation on the issue, MEPs backed amendments saying potentially immunotoxic or neurotoxic substances should never be part of pesticides used in the EU.…

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.…