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STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

IRELAND has been censured by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for using the United Nations Law of the Sea’s dispute settlement procedure to tackle Britain’s pollution of the Irish Sea via the Sellafield plant. The court ruled that in European Union (EU) territorial waters, it had exclusive jurisdiction, and Dublin should have asked it to censure Britain, not the UN.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

FIGURES from European Union (EU) statistical agency Eurostat have shown how sharply some populations in Europe will fall by 2050, potentially creating serious excess capacity in higher education institutions. Germany and Italy illustrate this most starkly. Eurostat projects that Germany’s 2005 population of 82.6 million will fall to 74.6 million in 2050; and while there were 58.2 million Italian residents in 2005, there will be just 52.7 million in 2050.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

FIGURES from European Union (EU) statistical agency Eurostat have shown how sharply some populations in Europe will fall by 2050, potentially creating serious excess capacity in higher education institutions. Germany and Italy illustrate this most starkly. Eurostat projects that Germany’s 2005 population of 82.6 million will fall to 74.6 million in 2050; and while there were 58.2 million Italian residents in 2005, there will be just 52.7 million in 2050.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels

WHEN asked about corruption in Belgium by Commercial Crime International, a government official held his nose in the time-honoured gesture. But was he being fair? Some recent high profile cases have brought the nation some lurid publicity.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE IRISH government is being taken to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) over refusing public compensation to blameless but uninsured road accident victims whose crash was caused by the driver of another vehicle without insurance. The European Commission claims Ireland is breaking the European Union’s (EU) second motor insurance directive.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

OPPOSITION is being voiced within the European Union (EU) to the growing trend of banning smoking in bars and pubs, says an opinion poll by EU pollsters Eurobarometer. While across the EU, 61% of citizens polled support these bans, there were majorities against them in significant countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

YOUNG adults in Germany – long seen as Europe’s technological powerhouse – are turning away from science and engineering, with just 16% of tertiary educated professionals in these fields being aged 25-34. The figures are the worst in the European Economic Area (EEA), and show that without change, Germany could face a shortage of engineers and scientists in the medium term.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

WIND power is Europe’s big growth area for electricity generation, according to the latest comparative figures from European Union (EU) statistical agency Eurostat, with capacity growing by 154% between 2000 and 2004. Its report noted wind power "is responsible for more than half of the new generating capacity" in these years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CADBURY Schweppes may beat off an attempt by Britain’s Inland Revenue to levy GBPounds 8.6 million taxes from an Ireland-based subsidiary. The tax collector wanted to charge Cadbury Schweppes Treasury International (CSTI), an in house finance company. It alleged CSTI’s presence in Ireland was to dodge higher British tax rates, and claimed money under a UK law on ‘controlled foreign companies’ allowing taxation of British-owned subsidiaries based abroad.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has ruled efforts to squeeze Ireland-based creditors from Bank of America-inspired insolvency proceedings of a Dublin-based subsidiary of Italian food giant Parmalat could be blocked by Irish courts. The ECJ confirmed the theoretical role of Italian liquidators, but in reality an Irish liquidator will probably handle the case.…