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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has threatened Italy with legal action at the European Court of Justice over obstacles that Italian law creates for the parallel imports of cars from other European Union (EU) Member States. The Commission claims that Italy is breaking EU fair trading laws that stop national governments from unfairly protecting their own local companies against foreign EU businesses.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INNOVATIVE pilot study has been launched in Milan, which could transform the way that air pollution is analysed and measured in Europe, enabling a clearer picture to emerge about the source of emissions. The European Union’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) has joined with the regional Italian environmental protection agency Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione dell’Ambiente Lombardia to measure urban air pollution in the city until the end of February.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INNOVATIVE pilot study has been launched in Milan, which could transform the way that air pollution is analysed and measured in Europe, enabling a clearer picture to emerge about the source of emissions. The European Union’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) has joined with the regional Italian environmental protection agency Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione dell’Ambiente Lombardia to measure urban air pollution in the city until the end of February.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the joint acquisition of the Italian company VM Motori by the US-based Penske Group and DaimlerChrysler AG of Germany. VM Motori, a subsidiary of Detroit Diesel Corporation of the US, designs, manufactures and sells light and medium-duty diesel engines for the motor industry and for certain other industries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ITALIAN government has been ordered by the European Court of Justice to reform its regulations protecting computer-using workers from eyesight problems, agreeing with a European Commission claim that its national laws break directive 90/270/EEC for work with visual display units.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ITALIAN government has been ordered by the European Court of Justice to reform its regulations protecting computer-using workers from eyesight problems, agreeing with a European Commission claim that its national laws break directive 90/270/EEC for work with visual display units.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
ITALY has been ordered by the European Court of Justice to cease allowing its museums and other cultural sites to discriminate against foreign European Union nationals over admission charges for its museums and other cultural sites. The European Commission said that in following up complaints from the public it had concluded that “the scheme of preferential rates applicable to persons aged over 60 or 65 years for admission to various Italian museums did indeed entail discrimination.”…

BY MARK ROWE
IF you open the window, flies will enter your home but in post-Soviet Russia it wasn’t just the windows but the doors too that were flung wide open.

Organised gangs, drawn by the sweet smell of easy pickings, duly swarmed all over the decaying house of Lenin.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has ordered Italy to scrap a tax break regime for insurance and other financial companies wanting to trade in eastern Europe, claiming that it breaks EU state aid rules. It wants the Italian government to close its Trieste Financial Services and Insurance Centre; this special registration system was one of a number of similar arrangements initially approved by the Commission in 1995, which saw them as offering a way to enhance the development of financial markets in east European countries and the former Soviet Union.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the acquisition by Germany’s mining and technology group RAG of German speciality chemicals company Degussa AG, so long as RAG sells its Italian, Spanish and German plants making naphtalene sulfonate, an important concrete input.…