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Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank is planning to help Irish and Italian airports comply with new European baggage inspection regulations. It plans to lend up to Euro 150 million to Italian civil aviation authority ENAC to install security inspection equipment and modify baggage-handling systems at 37 Italian airports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS AMERICAN and British military forces secure control of Iraq from the regime of dictator Saddam Hussein using the latest military technology, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has released a cautionary report confirming for the first time that depleted uranium shells can and have contaminated drinking water.…

Keith Nuthall
A CONSORTIUM led by Italian-Thai Development plc (ITD) and two Japanese contractors has been awarded the contract to build runways at Bangkok’s new Suvarnabhumi International Airport. Construction is due to be completed by April 2005. In a statement to the stock exchange of Thailand, ITD said that the consortium, IOT Joint Venture, would be signing the contract with the New Bangkok International Airport Co (NBIA).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITISH architects are among the most lightly regulated in the European Union (EU), with their Danish, Irish, Dutch and Swedish colleagues enjoying a similarly light regulatory burden, according to a European Commission-funded survey, promoting liberalisation in Europe’s professions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s anti-fraud office OLAF has been called in to investigate financial corruption at the EU’s Committee of the Regions, the Brussels body representing local governments across Europe.

Its investigators are checking allegations made by Dutch socialist MEP Michiel van Hulten to the European Parliament that the record of financial probity at the CoR “can only be described as alarming.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank has drawn up plans to lend Italian encyclopaedia publisher Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana fondata da Giovanni Treccani S.p.A. up to Euro 22 million to diversify and modernise the company’s product range, its use of technology and its sales channels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) has announced it will invest up to US$3 million in expanding a textile industry joint venture in Tajikstan, the poorest former Soviet republic. The money will be sunk into Tajik-Italian-American garment company Javoni, the largest foreign-local textile joint venture in the country; its local partner is part state owned Abreshim SA, the largest textile company in Tajikstan and it is majority owned by international garment company Carrera Group.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
STREAMLINING, multi-tasking and flexible posting of employees may be important weapons in the arsenal of a personnel team looking at getting the most efficiency out of their company, but managers had better make sure that their policies are legal, not only under national laws, but European law too.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has won a case at the European Court of Justice which declares illegal any intervention by national European Union governments to limit the liberty of motor insurance companies to set the price of their premiums.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE’S Suez water company and the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) have launched a joint drinking water improvements programme that will provide around Euro 300,000 in its first three years and will initially concentrate on the Volga-Caspian region.…