Search Results for: Netherlands

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE LOW Countries markets of Belgium and the Netherlands are a good place to take Europe’s converting industry temperature as it rides the recession this year. There is no denying that business is down in this key European region, but there are certainly no signs of melt-down and converters in this country appear well positioned to exploit an economic recovery, when it comes.…

By Keith Nuthall

A UNITED Nations-sponsored global initiative to encourage business schools to teach and promote social and environmentally responsible commercial practices has gathered a critical mass of support. More than 100 business schools worldwide have now signed up to the Principles for Responsible Management Initiative.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has opened a detailed merger probe into the proposed acquisition of certain parts of the Netherlands’ GBI by Britain-based Associated British Foods (ABF). Both companies produce dry, compressed and liquid baker’s yeast and Brussels fears competition problems in Portugal, Spain and France.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

INHALING diesel exhaust impairs the brain’s processing of information according to a study from Zuyd University, the Netherlands. Participants inhaled diesel exhaust similar to that breathed by roadside or garage workers during 30 minutes. Their minds displayed stress responses recorded on an electroencephalograph (EEG) whilst controls breathing clean air registered normal brain activity.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s budgetary control committee has tied its recommendation that the European Union’s (EU) 2006 accounts be approved to the creation of a joint parliament-European Commission group improving EU accounting and auditing. The group would especially monitor new quarterly checks on the financial management of regional development ‘structural’ funds that command Euro 278 billion from 2007-13.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE OUTGOING Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) system and liaison office will close by June 30, 2009, a working group has declared. With many JAA functions now being handled by the European Union’s (EU) European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), the JAA Training Organisation in Hoofddorp, the Netherlands, will continue operating as an associate of the European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SUBSIDIES will continue to be paid to European Union (EU) producers of flax and hemp fibre crops, the EU Council of Ministers has decided. Indeed, ministers have decided to increase the aid paid to long flax fibre producers, raising it from the current Euro 160 per tonne to Euro 200 per tonne from the 2009/10 marketing year onwards.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

OF all the European Union’s (EU) flagship energy projects, maybe none is more central to the goal of ensuring security of supply and none more fraught with political and technical complexity than the proposed Nabucco pipeline designed to bring natural gas from the Caspian region, the Middle East and Egypt into Austria and then on to consumers in western Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SUBSIDIES will continue to be paid to European Union (EU) producers of flax and hemp fibre crops, the EU Council of Ministers has decided. Indeed, aid for long flax fibre producers will rise from Euro 160/ tonne to Euro 200/tonne from 2009/10 onwards, with additional aid for long flax fibre traditional production within Belgium, France and the Netherlands.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN INNOVATIVE computer system is being developed by a European Union (EU)-funded research project that is designed to swiftly warn regulators about new unexpected side-effects of approved medicines. At present, clinicians are responsible for reporting such events, but this ad hoc system has meant "adverse effects of drugs may be detected too late, when millions of patients have already been exposed," claims the ALERT research consortium.…