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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the acquisition of sole control of Netherlands-based EU food ingredient business IMCD Group by global financial services group ABN AMRO.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has pushed ahead with securing more overseas fishing access deals for EU fishing crews in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Crucially EU ministers have been formally asked to approve a deal regarding the key Pacific grounds off the Solomon Islands.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has called on European Union (EU) countries to further liberalise their professions, including legal specialists, although a Communication’ policy paper praises Britain for its reforms. The UK “is making good progress” across the board in fighting restrictive practices regarding profession entry, fees and advertising, along with Denmark and the Netherlands, said Brussels.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
VETS and government officials of the 25 EU member states were due to meet in Brussels yesterday (Thursday) to consider whether more European farmers should be banned from keeping poultry outdoors as a precaution against bird flu. The Netherlands has already introduced a ban and Germany may follow suit in the next few weeks.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A LINK between under-nourishment and mental illness has been confirmed after scientists found that children born during China’s 1959-61 famine were twice as likely to develop schizophrenia. It afflicts roughly 1% of the global population and tends to run in families but researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University noted that the percentage of children who were babies during the famine and developed schizophrenia rose to 2.2%.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN tobacco industry is resisting handing over detailed cigarette ingredients data to national European Union (EU) governments, a European Commission report has claimed, despite it being their legal duty under the EU tobacco products directive. Highlighting “some difficulties associated to the submission of ingredient information…by the industry”, the Commission said data has so far only been sent to Brussels by 13 out of the 25 EU member states.…

KEITH NUTHALL
TESTING facilities for companies and utilities seeking to evaluate hydrogen production and fuel cell technologies have been opened at the European Union’s (EU) Institute for Energy in Petten, the Netherlands. Part of the EU’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), its scientists will simulate operational lifetime conditions on fuel cells under all foreseeable conditions, from arctic to tropical weather, and from motorway driving to forest tracks.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE BRITISH government is confident that it will avoid legal action from the European Commission at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which has formally warned the UK and five other European Union (EU) about not implementing a key accounting directive.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has started moving against established rich member states of the European Union (EU) who prevent citizens of the 10 new EU countries exercising their rights to work across Europe. It has formally requested that the Netherlands reviews rules often insisting employers secure working permits for staff temporarily posted from these eastern and southern EU countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NETHERLANDS, Greece and Poland have come under legal pressure from the European Commission to reform their car taxation rules so that it is easier to move vehicles around the European Union (EU). It has sent their governments formal requests to reform their systems, which – if ignored – could lead to a referral to the European Court of Justice (ECJ).…