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BY MARK ROWE
DISPUTES over who owns an idea and the right to stop others from stealing it probably date back to the cavemen who invented the wheel. It was most likely resolved by the application of a large club to the head.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
WITH the European Union’s Pounds 2.2 billion Galileo satellite navigation system being given the final go-ahead by government leaders after long arguments over its cost, the European Commission is taking pains to promote its future usefulness to the airline industry.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney
AUSTRALIA’S low fare carrier, Virgin Blue, (owned by Sir Richard Branson), has signed a contract reflecting the high standard of skills commanded by civilian airlines worldwide: to train pilots who crew VIP aircraft for the Royal Australian Air Force.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the start-up of inreon, (NOTE: all letters in lower case) an online business-to-business reinsurance trading platform set up by Swiss Re and Munich Re. The service will enable insurers to obtain bids from reinsurers on big property and catastrophic risks and conclude contracts online.…

BY PHILIP FINE, in Montreal

LOW-FARE airlines are gaining a greater presence in north America, but according to the President and CEO of The American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) they still have along way to go before taking on the major airlines.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW joint venture to operate an Internet business-to-business marketplace for office supplies has been given competition clearance by the European Commission. It will be called Date AS, and will sell stationary equipment and consumables such as pencils, pens, paper, hardware and mobile phones.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MOVES are underway to restructure the Ukraine’s airline industry, with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development planning to fund consultants who would advise the country’s two main commercial players on how they could successfully merge their services.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A REPORT on the international conventions and European and national laws controlling the use of cannabis as a medicine, has been released by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. The paper offers a legal analysis of the options and limitations of using medicinal cannabis and its derivatives in the EU, as well as noting current practice.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN an increasingly borderless world, the power of international intellectual property conventions is growing ever stronger and the garden trade is being affected by this trend as much as mining and IT.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN football association UEFA launched a joint-anti smoking campaign with the European Commission on the eve of the World Cup in Japan and South Korea. The two organisations booked television advertising space to broadcast their anti-tobacco message, using international footballers including French star Zinedine Zidane and Portugal’s Luis Figo.…