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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Green Party has kicked off its June 10 European election campaign, which will focus on food safety and preventing repeats of the BSE and salmonella scares that have damaged the European Union (EU) meat industry in recent years.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
SEEN in the context of the past decade, the entry of 10 new member states to the European Union (EU) which took place on May 1 has proved nothing like the disaster for the nuclear industry that was once feared.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THEY’RE not to everybody’s taste, we quite agree, but there’s no doubt that flavoured cigars have a very devoted band of followers and can no longer be dismissed as a passing fancy. Indeed after speaking to a number of the big players it is easy to gain the impression that the flavoured, (or aromatic), segment has (along perhaps with filters) been the only one to buck the cigar sector’s trend of falling or stagnant sales in recent years.…

BY EDWARD PETERS
DEPENDING on who you ask, Taiwan is either a renegade province or to all intents and purposes an independent nation, albeit one that currently lacks full international recognition. To suggest that it could be a fully functioning country in its own right to anyone in Beijing – the capital of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) – is tantamount to treason.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SCOTTISH MEP has raised concerns at the European Parliament about reports of the Dundrennan firing range, in Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, being used by the British military to test depleted uranium weapons. Green MEP Neil MacCormick alleged the firing may have dumped 29 tonnes of depleted uranium off south-west Scotland, a concern to both British and Irish citizens, and, he claimed, a likely breach of the UN Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has called for legal penalties to be erected banning the sale, trade and consumption of bushmeat, which it says is causing a “worrying depletion of wildlife in (tropical) forests.” Approving a report by Irish socialist MEP Proinsias De Rossa, MEPs said a European Union (EU) “strategic action plan” should be created to fight to problem, most common in the Congo basin, where between 1 and 5 million tonnes of bushmeat is produced.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
HOSPITAL consultants began industrial action across the Irish Republic yesterday as part of an escalating protest against the imposition of a new state scheme for insuring medical malpractice. Senior doctors have withdrawn all administrative duties and will stop all other duties, except emergency work, if the dispute over the so-called ‘enterprise liability’ cover is not resolved within three weeks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has sent Ireland a legal final warning threatening possible legal action over Dublin’s alleged failure to protect too few maritime zones containing commercial shellfish fisheries. Brussels says that the Irish government has broken the EU shellfish water directive by designating only 14 shellfish zones for special protection.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EFFECTIVE incorporation of the 10 eastern and southern European countries joining the European Union (EU) next May in Brussels’ Common Agricultural Policy is a key priority of the Irish government’s new EU presidency. Other priorities include reforming the common market organisation for olive oil and sugar, plus Commission farm animal welfare proposals.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE IRISH government is backing an Austrian call for the ongoing European Union (EU) intergovernmental conference (IGC) – that is writing the EU’s first constitution – to convene a separate conference to review the Euratom nuclear energy treaty.…