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BY KEITH NUTHALL
DRIVE into eastern Europe and your chance of being killed in a road accident rise steeply say the latest European Union (EU)-wide comparative accident figures from EU statistical agency Eurostat. The EU’s worst blackspots are Latvia at 752 road accident deaths per million car registrations; Romania 749; Lithuania 571; Slovakia 507 and Poland 476.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EASTERN Mediterranean University (EMU) in Famagusta, Northern Cyprus is waiting for an imminent ruling from the European Ombudsman charging the European Commission with “maladministration” over its refusal to allow access to the EU’s Socrates and Erasmus programmes and the Bologna Process on higher education structure.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) US$85 million loan to ISTIL Ukraine, will help the Ukraine’s only modern mini-steel mill using an electric arc furnace and continuous casting technology to raise Euro 3 million in Kyoto Protocol carbon credit sales.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SURVIVAL of the European Union’s (EU) production-linked subsidy schemes for the dairy sector are under review and could be under attack soon, European Union (EU) agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel has told a conference at Wageningen University, the Netherlands.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A CENTRAL purpose of the European Union’s (EU) second money laundering directive (sometimes called 2MLD amongst officials) that came into effect in 2003 was to extend to estate agents, along with other similar professions, the anti-money laundering (AML) controls until then had applied only to banks and one or two other financial institutions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has shied away from forcing all European Union (EU) Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) research grant recipients from publishing in open source formats, but a policy paper says the incoming European Research Council (ERC) may make such demands.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE STEEPNESS in the decline of British commercial fishing catches from 1995 until 2005 has been highlighted in a new report from European Union (EU) statistical agency Eurostat. It shows that for the north-east Atlantic, North Sea and the Baltic, total British commercial catches fell from 905,678 tonnes in 1995 to 658,802 in 2005, a fall of 28%.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) is pushing signatories to its new Protocol on Water and Health to its Convention on Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes to agree detailed targets on improving European water quality.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has demanded refunds of Euro 232 million in Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) subsidies from Greece because of alleged frauds and mismanagement in administration and management. Euro 163.7 million was demanded for olive cultivation, because a compulsory register checking declarations was not set up; Euro 37.4 million was to be repaid for cotton subsidies, where Athens failed to cross-check production aid and did not penalise errors; and Euro 30.9 million was to be returned over poorly checked grape aid, paid for an overestimated geographical area.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

LEGAL experts are carefully studying the decision on Monday (18-12) of the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers that Austria should continue its national bans on two generically modified maize varieties. The European Commission, which wanted the bans abolished, is considering its options, because the maize – Zea Mays L.…