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LONG-TERM support for the wave and tidal energy industries has been announced by the European Commission, which this spring said it intended to support “the rapid development of key ocean energy technologies at the European level”.

European Union (EU) energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger said: “Ocean energy has a significant potential to enhance the security of supply”, adding that “a wide portfolio of renewable energy sources -including ocean energy” was necessary if non fossil fuels were to become “mainstream and integrated into the European energy system.”…

AUSTRIA

The location of ECC Austria in central Vienna means many consumers drop by to receive advice or lodge complaints in person with the ECC’s five staff members. A top priority in 2013 was increasing public awareness about e-commerce fraud; a brochure aimed at combatting the problem was published and more than 600,000 were distributed throughout Austria.…

BUDGET airlines have a major impact on airport expansion or contraction across Europe, but their importance can be particularly pronounced in countries towards the east, whose economies are still catching up with the west of the continent.

Even in Poland, which avoided recession since the financial collapse of 2008, some airports have asked city and regional governments for help when they cannot attract enough trade – in one recent instance following a decision by Ryanair to cut routes.…

EUROPEAN accountants are looking to the negotiations for a free trade agreement between the USA and the European Union (EU) with the hope that it will make it easier for them to switch shores of the Atlantic to practice their profession.…

THE IRISH government has been threatened by legal action by the European Commission unless it reforms its taxation of ‘termination payments’ – lump sums paid to employees leaving a company. These are taxed at a lower rate for Ireland-based companies within a multinational group, than for group companies based elsewhere in the European Union (EU).…

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) will have to make concessions on meat in its negotiations with the US for a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a senior European Commission official warned last night (Tuesday). John Clarke, director for international affairs at the European Commission’s directorate general (DG) for agriculture said: “We will have to reduce our tariffs in areas like meat.”…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has released official guidance on how to protect the environment when ‘fracking’ for shale gas. It has given European Union (EU) member states 18 months to follow its suggestions, saying it will “review the effectiveness” of this voluntary approach after this deadline.…

THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has concluded that the sweetener aspartame is safe for human consumption at current recommended levels of consumption. Following a review of evidence provided both by animal and human studies, EFSA experts have ruled out a potential risk of aspartame causing damage to genes and inducing cancer for most consumers.…

BY ROBERT STOKES

THE UNITED Kingdom imports more than 50% of its demand for natural gas and this will exceed 85% by 2030 according to National Grid, which owns and operates Britain’s high pressure National Transmission System (NTS) for gas.…

THE UNITED Kingdom imports more than 50% of its demand for natural gas and this will exceed 85% by 2030 according to National Grid, which owns and operates Britain’s high pressure National Transmission System (NTS) for gas.

Increasing dependence on piped supplies from Norway and through interconnectors from continental Europe as well as imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are raising questions about the security of both supply and prices

As older nuclear plants and coal fired power stations close, the fact that large scale renewables take time to develop means gas will be needed more frequently to fire combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power stations to compensate, for example, for fluctuating output from offshore wind farms.…