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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is to release the European Union’s (EU) remaining 855,000 tonnes of intervention sugar stocks onto world markets. Buyers will be able to use available export refunds, with Brussels keen to exploit current market prices and avoid heavy storage expenses, which it wants ended after incoming reforms to the EU sugar market system.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is casting around for allies in central Asia and north Africa in its diplomatic tussle with Russia to secure cheap and reliable energy supplies. EU energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs has flown to Algeria to discuss closer energy ties with this major gas and oil producer.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

LATVIA has become the first European Union (EU) country to ban the sale of confectionary, including chewing gum, and potato crisps, in its state-run schools and nurseries. Strictly speaking, the health ministry prohibition covers all foods and drinks containing artificial additives including colourings, flavourings, preservatives, caffeine, and amino-acids sold in state schools.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRITAIN and other European Union (EU) countries which have yet to adopt the Euro are to be covered by a newly extended EU programme on fighting counterfeiting of Europe’s single currency. The EU Council of Ministers has approved a renewed ‘Pericles’ programme, which will spend Euro 1 million a year from 2007 to 2013.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

LATVIA has become the first European Union (EU) country to ban the sale of fizzy soft drinks, such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and 7-Up in its state-run schools and nurseries. Strictly speaking, the health ministry prohibition covers all drinks containing artificial additives including colourings, flavourings, preservatives, caffeine, and amino-acids sold in state schools.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

FOOD manufacturers have been given practical and scientific advice by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) on reducing the exposure of their customers to food and livestock -borne disease. In supporting the European Commission strategy of setting reduction targets for salmonella in poultry meat production, EFSA identified processing plants as having the highest rates of contamination, with those also making animal feed causing problems while being victims, as "contaminated animal feed" introduced salmonella into livestock and food.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN UNLIKELY alliance linking the European timber industry and environmentalists has called for caution in increasing the role of biomass in Europe’s energy mix. The Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI) and the Worldwide Find for Nature (WWF) have recommended that the energy sector’s exploitation of biomass grow sustainably.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is moving towards supporting environment-friendly road transport, rather than dedicating resources to promoting public transport, a European Parliament debate organised by the Automobile and Society Forum, has heard. The European Commission is currently reviewing its 2001 transport white paper and its working papers have noted "disappointment" over the results of the EU’s pro-public transport policies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRITISH fishermen have been allocated one of the smaller national envelopes of money from the incoming European Fisheries Fund (EFF), whose money has now been split amongst European Union (EU) member states by the European Commission. Out of the Euro 3.8 billion available from 2007 to 2013, only Euro 122 million has been allocated to the UK.…

BY MARK ROWE

WHEN it came to accession to the European Union (EU) in 2004, the Baltic States were something of a special case. Though unable to compete on the same scale as their neighbours in Poland, or further south, Ukraine and the Czech Republic, the economies of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia quickly gained a reputation for being micro economic powerhouses – and the same has applied to their paint industries.…