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By Alan Osborn

An expert on entrepreneurship from Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is to advise business leaders, politicians and academics in West Bengal on how this Indian state can improve its economic performance with the support of higher education.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AS 2009 dawns, the European Union’s (EU) renewable energy sector knows that it has truly entered the mainstream of EU utility markets, its growth being sanctioned by ambitious legislation approved before Christmas.

After more than a year of debates, the European Parliament and EU ministers have approved a new EU directive imposing mandatory national targets for the 27 member states regarding the portion of their gross final consumption of energy in 2020 coming from renewable sources.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A CONTROLLED opening of Arctic fisheries made more accessible because of the steady retreat of polar ice through climate change has been called for in a European Commission policy paper.

It wants "a regulatory framework for [those] Arctic high seas not yet covered by an international conservation and management regime before new fishing opportunities arise," saying no fisheries should be opened for any country until such controls are established.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded Euro 4.6 million research project will develop new antibiotics to combat highly drug-resistant bacteria pseudomonas aeruginosa. This accounts for a significant percentage of hospital-acquired infections. The AEROPATH project is led by the University of Dundee.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded Euro 4.6 million research project will develop new antibiotics to combat highly drug-resistant bacteria pseudomonas aeruginosa. This accounts for a significant percentage of hospital-acquired infections. The AEROPATH project is led by the University of Dundee.…

BY KARRYN MILLER

AS Japanese consumers seek out innovative cosmetics, homegrown beauty brands must continuously come up with novel products to keep their place within the industry and the use of bio-based oils and fats in formulations is an important part of that process.…

BY MAKKI MARSEILLES

GREECE is something of a paradox in the tobacco sector. Its citizens smoke more cigarettes per capita than anywhere else in the world, yet its government is increasing anti-smoking legislation and its long-established leaf growing sector is shrinking towards virtual extinction.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded research project commanding Euro 4.6 million in EU money is to develop antibiotics to combat highly drug-resistant bacteria pseudomonas aeruginosa. This accounts for a significant percentage of hospital-acquired infections, noted the European Commission. The AEROPATH project includes university scientists in Britain and Sweden, working with German biotech companies Lionex and MFD Diagnostics.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE FREIGHT Transport Association (FTA) has challenged conclusions from the European Commission that the opening of Britain and other western European labour markets to workers from eastern European countries "has been positive on balance".

Brussels’ Employment in Europe 2008 report claims the influx of mobile labour from the 10 eastern European countries that have joined the EU "has not led to serious disturbances on the labour market."…

BY MARK ROWE

ONE of the major elements of the 2004 enlargement of the European Union (EU) was its intended expansion to these new member states of the Schengen agreement, which phases out checks at shared borders and allows free movement for all within the EU.…