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BY KEITH NUTHALL
RUSSIAN cosmonauts are trialling a fast-food snack system designed to preserve freshness in wholesome Mediterranean products, even in the long-term room temperature storage required for six-month International Space Station missions. The Mediet (Mediterranean Diet) experiment uses vacuum-sealed plastic packages of dried tomatoes, mature cheese, piadina bread, peaches and chocolate from Italy on an aluminium ergonomic tray.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has thrown down the gauntlet over the agreement between the European Union (EU) and the United States over transferring airline passenger data to US authorities, voting to challenge the deal at the European Court of Justice (ECJ).…

KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPE’S policy makers should refrain from depending too heavily on renewable energy sources when securing future electricity supplies, European Union (EU) producer federation Eurelectric and IFIEC Europe, the federation of European industrial energy consumers have said. In a joint statement, they suggested developing “technically and economically realistic objectives for renewable energy, and on leaving open all available energy options”.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE OFFICE International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation, has reported an outbreak of the potentially disastrous white spot disease on an American shrimp farm in the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i (SPELLING CORRECT). Already, said the OIE, there have been 6.8 million cases in this outbreak, involving 5.6 million deaths and 1.2 million shrimps being destroyed, with 16 million being susceptible.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that a law governing the reimbursement of medical expenses paid by German civil servants breaks European Union (EU) fair trade treaty commitments because it insists that the prospect of success for such treatment must be higher when bought abroad than in Germany.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMANY is at the centre of a lengthy critique of global restrictions on the telecommunications sector issued by the United States Trade Representative (USTR), which it warns may form the basis future World Trade Organisation disputes cases. Germany has been criticised regarding access to leased lines and high mobile termination rates, in particular, with the USTR attacking the German telecom regulator RegTP’s “lack of authority to impose certain measures (ie.,…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NOBODY likes to be on a blacklist, especially one written by the American government. But every year, the US state department issues a comprehensive rogues gallery of countries involved in the narcotics trade and related criminal problems. One surprising entrant: the United States.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has backed a political case brought by the European Commission against Germany, designed to demonstrate a zero tolerance attitude towards the implementation of European Union (EU) energy liberalisation legislation. Judges censured Germany for being three years late in implementing the natural gas single market liberalisation directive approved in August 1998 with an implementation deadline of August 2000.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
PERSONNEL managers may well consider the European Court of Justice (ECJ) a somewhat austere body, constantly engaged in arcane institutional and corporate matters. Think again. It can well be argued that the ECJ has had a more direct impact on the lives and work of the European Union’s 380 million citizens, including of course those in Britain, than any other single organisation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations has created an international advisory board on water supplies and sanitation, which will try to boost these services in developing countries. It will try and mobilise funds for such projects, also offering technical, political and business advice.…