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RUSSIA PORT SAFETY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is lending US$5.4 million to the Maritime Port Authority of St Petersburg to fund the construction of a maritime navigation safety system in the main Russian sector of the Baltic Sea, where a future surge in tanker traffic is anticipated.…
FLOODS PIECE
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE FLOODS in central Europe last August and September took a tragic toll of lives, disrupted local economies and devastated numerous museums with the irretrievable loss of cultural artefacts. In Dresden, the worst hit city, thousands of artworks had to be moved when both the Zwinger Palace, site of one of Europe’s great art museums, and the Albertinum Museum became victims of rising floodwater.…
IVORY COAST
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A POWERFUL disused radioactive source left in a small unguarded bunker at the Ivory Coast’s University of Cocody (in the capital Abidjan) has been has been secured by the International Atomic Energy Agency, specialists from France and the host country.…
ITALY EYESIGHT LAWS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ITALIAN government has been ordered by the European Court of Justice to reform its regulations protecting computer-using workers from eyesight problems, agreeing with a European Commission claim that its national laws break directive 90/270/EEC for work with visual display units.…
ITALY EYESIGHT LAWS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ITALIAN government has been ordered by the European Court of Justice to reform its regulations protecting computer-using workers from eyesight problems, agreeing with a European Commission claim that its national laws break directive 90/270/EEC for work with visual display units.…
RYAN AIR
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A STATE aid inquiry has been formally launched by the European Commission into the benefits offered to Ryanair by its first base in mainland Europe, Brussels South Charleroi Airport, Belgium. The Commission says there is a case to answer over advantages provided by the airport, which is controlled by the Walloon regional government.…
JANES AIRPORT REVIEW
BY KEITH NUTHALL
Europe’s ambitious Galileo programme to establish a global satellite navigation system is clearly a project that likes to keep its supporters in a state of fairly constant nervous tension. At a cost of 3.2 billion euros, Galileo was never a sure-fire runner to begin with.…
RUSSIA FEATURE
BY MARK ROWE
IF you open the window, flies will enter your home but in post-Soviet Russia it wasn’t just the windows but the doors too that were flung wide open.
Organised gangs, drawn by the sweet smell of easy pickings, duly swarmed all over the decaying house of Lenin.…
CRISIS MANAGEMENT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is organising a pilot training programme designed to equip European 250 professionals this year with crisis management skills enabling them to bring order to regions that have been wracked by warfare or civil strife. The courses are being run at the Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Stadtschlaining, and will involve judges, prosecutors, human rights observers, local administrators, social workers, teachers and infrastructure experts.…
CRISIS MANAGEMENT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is organising a pilot training programme designed to equip European 250 professionals this year with crisis management skills enabling them to bring order to regions that have been wracked by warfare or civil strife. The courses are being run at the Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Stadtschlaining, and will involve judges, prosecutors, human rights observers, local administrators, social workers, teachers and infrastructure experts.…