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BY KEITH NUTHALL

The European Investment Bank is lending Euro 200 million to Urenco Ltd for expanding uranium enrichment plants in Britain and the Netherlands.

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BY KEITH NUTHALL

CLOTHING companies cannot trademark design shapes after advertising campaigns highlighted particular products, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled. In a case between Benetton and Dutch clothing company G-Star International BV, judges ruled such protection is excluded under European Union (EU) directive 89/104/EEC on trademarks.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

AS a demonstration of how the top higher education people from across the world can meet, debate, agree and disagree without ever losing sight of their common goals as academic leaders you would find it hard to better the 4-yearly conference of the UNESCO-based International Association of Universities (IAU).…

By Alan Osborn

As a demonstration of how the top higher education people from across the world can meet, debate, agree and disagree without ever losing sight of their common goals as academic leaders you would find it hard to better the 4-yearly conference of the UNESCO-based International Association of Universities (IAU).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE NETHERLANDS’ Koninklijke Friesland Foods has won the right to benefit from a Dutch tax break for the international financing of companies within commercial groups through a case at the European Court of Justice’s Court of First Instance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CONTINENTAL Europe has been grappling with a series of livestock disease outbreaks whilst Britain has attempted to nail down its latest foot and mouth disease (FMD) outbreak. Germany and the Netherlands have both been fighting cases of bluetongue in cattle and sheep, showing that the disease that once was restricted to the Mediterranean is now well established in north-west Europe.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

THE EUROPEAN Commission is giving food companies from 10 European Union (EU) member states Euro 38.8 million over three years to promote food product sales within the EU, with a large share going toward organic lines. France’s organic products agency Agence Bio and other French organic players, will receive Euro 3.6 million in EU funding, while Austria’s organic food producers, AMA Marketing GesmbH, will receive Euro 1.5million.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has sent final legal warnings to 10 European Union (EU) member governments, telling them to abide by minimum standards for the training of professional drivers working in their countries. EU directive 2003/59 imposes requirements for initial qualification and continuing training: compulsory basic training of 280 hours, and periodic training of 35 hours every five years to update knowledge and skills.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced funding to help meat industry organisations promote sales of their products within the European Union (EU). The money will be matched by relevant national governments and by private sources. Italy will benefit the most: the Commission is to spend Euro 1.75 million over three years promoting quality beef and mutton from Italy’s San Daniele and Grana Padano regions; and Euro 2 million promoting over three years the same products from Italy’s Alpine regions, such as the Alto Adige.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN ADDITIONAL Euro 8.5 million in research has been approved in research spending for this year at the European Union’s (EU) Joint Research Centre’s high flux reactor, at Petten, the Netherlands. EU ministers approved research projects including reactor safety and waste management.…