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BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers are debating an urgent rescue package for a European fishing sector that is being buffeted by high fuel prices. European Commission officials are drafting formal proposals, which would suspend certain European Fisheries Fund subsidy controls for two years.…

BY BILL CORCORAN, in Lilongwe, Malawi

A NEW initiative to improve the health, wealth and environment of Africans is being driven by the Kyoto Protocol’s international trades in carbon credits. This allows wealthy developed countries to scale back their emission reductions, if they can invest in slashing greenhouse gas pollution abroad.…

David Haworth, in Brussels

Outside Ireland, the recent passing of at 85 of Dr. P.J. Hillery – “Paddy” to his friends -was little noticed yet his achievements as a statesman were huge.

The son of a country doctor, he became a general practitioner himself but slipped, unobtrusively at first, into Irish politics.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IMPROVED cooperation between fisheries authorities in the European Union (EU) and Russia is to be established, following the signing of a memorandum of understanding between Brussels and Moscow. The deal covers fishing grounds in the Baltic and the north Atlantic and involves better contacts between the European Commission and Russia’s state committee for fisheries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling has swept away a European Commission block on Irish fishermen replacing ships lost at sea with larger and safer vessels. Brussels had been resisting plans of Ocean Trawlers Ltd, of Killybegs; Thomas Flaherty, of Mainster; and Larry Murphy, of Brandyhill; all in Ireland, to replace sunk vessels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE BRITISH government has opposed Polish government proposals for introducing export refunds to promote European Union (EU) pigmeat sales abroad, despite recent London demonstrations by UK pork producers. Around 200 pig rearers picketed the 10 Downing Street residence of prime minister Gordon Brown earlier this month, protesting at low prices paid by supermarkets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament has pushed for more concrete collaboration between African and European Union (EU) researchers, amidst concerns that grand declarations of altruistic intentions are failing to deliver cash or expertise.

A formal resolution passed by parliament members (MEPs) called for a "special emphasis [to] be placed on research into AIDS in African countries" within the EU’s ongoing seventh framework programme on research, which commands a huge Euro 53.2 billion budget, nearly three times the total GDP of Kenya.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has declared illegal under European Union (EU) compulsory insurance laws, Irish regulations that fail to provide cover to all road accident victims entering a vehicle knowing its driver was uninsured. The ECJ said Ireland erred by not restricting that exclusion to passengers in a vehicle whose driver caused an accident.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A CONSULTANTS report written for the European Commission has warned that registered passenger schemes designed to identify certain passengers as a low risk in security terms could make controls less effective if used insensitively. Written by Accenture, Daon, and the Irish Aviation Authority, the report argues that because "precise criteria to assess passengers as ‘lower than average risk’ are hard to define because of a lack of clear criteria…that passengers are not classified as ‘high-risk’ does not automatically mean they qualify as ‘lower than average’ risk."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) order could force the Irish government to improve and expand its mandatory training programmes for road hauliers. The European Commission has asked judges to rule Ireland’s current training system is too scant to meet the safety standards required by the European Union’s (EU) directive on training professional drivers.…