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BY ALAN OSBORN
A SOLUTION to the problem of ink corrosion, one of the most serious and persistent of those facing museum and library curators charged with the preservation of old drawings and documents, may at last be in sight.

The InkCor project, backed by museums, research institutes and universities in Germany, France, the Netherlands and Slovenia, and largely funded by the European Union’s (EU) Fifth Framework Programme for research, is developing a treatment that will at the very least stabilise the present situation and slow down the corrosion.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is lending Euro 16 million to two Serbian agribusiness companies – Fabrika TE-TO Senta and Star Secer (Nova Crnja) – both owned by Italian sugar producer SFIR Group – to purchase beets from local farmers, boosting their liquidity.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have moved towards extending common rules on liberalisation, market power and network access to the broadband sector, following an informal meeting on telecommunications. Staged in Viterbo, Italy, by the current Italian presidency of the EU, the meeting’s conclusions called for coordinated action by Member States to promote broadband development.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to provide Edison SpA, of Italy, with a substantial Euro 250 million loan to help design, construct and operate two combined cycle gas turbines, which would provide electricity to the national grid.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE REFORM of the European Union’s common agricultural policy regarding tobacco growing is a priority of the EU’s Italian presidency until (December), said Italy’s agriculture minister Giovanni Alemanno. He told the EU Council of Ministers that Italy would push reform “on the basis of in-depth studies of the impact of the planned measures on the markets concerned.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is lending Euro 16 million to two Serbian agribusiness companies – Fabrika TE-TO Senta and Star Secer (Nova Crnja) – both owned by Italian sugar producer SFIR Group – to purchase beets from local farmers, boosting their liquidity.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE REFORM of the European Union’s common agricultural policy regarding cotton growing is a priority of the EU’s Italian presidency until (December), said Italy’s agriculture minister Giovanni Alemanno. He told the EU Council of Ministers that Italy would push reform “on the basis of in-depth studies of the impact of the planned measures on the markets concerned.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ITALIAN government is being threatened with legal action at the European Court of Justice over its alleged failure to stage an environmental impact assessment into the establishment of an intensive pig breeding farm at Perd’e Cuaddu, Sardinia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COMPREHENSIVE deal over third party access to gas pipelines has been agreed between German joint venture BEB and the European Commission, leading to Brussels closing its competition investigation into the company’s refusal to allow Norway’s Marathon to pump gas into its infrastructure.…

KEITH NUTHALL
SATELLITE recorded data of the Earth’s weather and hydrological flows is being promoted by the European Space Agency (ESA) as a potential boon for the renewable energy industry, with the information helping the optimum positioning of generation plants.

At a workshop at its Italian centre, in Frascati, ESA scientists met with utility companies to discuss how such information can best be exploited.…