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KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has lent Euro 30 million to Frantschach Swiecie SA, Poland’s second largest pulp and paper producer, so it can modernise its combined heat and power plant, supplying steam and electricity. The money will help it construct a new fluidised bed boiler, which will use biomass and coal as a fuel, overhaul existing coal-fired boilers and upgrade other electricity generating equipment.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
A FORMER president of the Thai Leather Goods Association has said that the Thailand leather industry has to improve its designs to more effectively compete globally. Sunanta Wuthisakul said that this would build upon the standard product quality of local manufacturers, which in general “currently met international standards,” notably those of the big brands which use Thai leather.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE CHICAGO Board of Trade is being sued in the US District Court in Chicago for a 1989 decision that forced the owners of large amounts of soybean futures contracts to sell their positions. Farmer Harvey Joe Sanner is alleging that the Board knew its order would cause prices to drop, thereby benefiting the trading firm of one of its directors.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL AND MARK ROWE
RESEARCHERS at the University of Essex have developed a new method of measuring rainfall accurately, that they claim could help improve the control of floods and reduce the potentially devastating losses that they can cause.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A NEW campaign to promote the merits of European wines is set to open in selected off-licences and other retail outlets in the next few months following agreement by the European Commission to pay half the cost.

The project, which involves spending of Pounds 3.6 million in total for all the EU countries, will stress the quality characteristics of European wines and focus on regional identification.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GHANDI would have approved. Peaceful protest has long been a political weapon, and rights of public assembly and demonstration protect its use. But on the Internet? Italian Radical Euro MP Marco Cappato wants the concept of cyber-civil-disobedience to be written into European law, allowing protesters to be naughty online, as long as it’s in a good cause.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has granted clearance, under the EU’s merger regulation, to the acquisition of full control by Questor Partners Bermuda, L.P., of the aluminium business of Italy’s Teksid S.p.A., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Italian auto giant Fiat.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ITALIAN leather manufacturer appears to have lost an international legal struggle to prevent a former German company from using a trade name similar to its own to market furniture upholstered with leather bought from alternative suppliers. In a test case at the European Court of Justice, Italian Leather, of Bironto, Italy, has failed to establish that a ruling that it secured at Bari District Court should overrule a decision made earlier at the Regional Court, Koblenz, Germany.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ITALIAN government has been censured for failing to abide by European Union freedom of trade laws by imposing tough labelling laws for perfumes or cosmetic fragrances, which insist that packaging declares whether they are natural or artificial.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank is considering plans to lend up to Euro 135 million to Italy’s La Rinascente SpA retail group, to help it build and operate one shopping centre in the Campania region, (surrounding Naples), and four new hypermarkets, (two in Campania and two in Sicily).…