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BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

IN the airport industry, starting from scratch is sometimes the best solution. Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad is a case in point. It displays the range of objectives that can be achieved in terms of efficiency and scope in a greenfield project over and above expanding an existing airport.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

A RELATIVE newcomer has joined the ranks of the world’s professionals in the financial services sphere – the anti-money laundering practitioner. True, not everybody would agree that he or she warrants a place up there with accountants, lawyers and the other traditional professionals.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CHEMOTHERAPY and radiotherapy maybe effective against cancer, but sometimes they are a sledgehammer to crack a nut, causing patients to suffer from so many side-effects they sometimes wished their tumours had been left alone.

And so it has long been the aim of pharmaceutical companies and cancer researchers to devise means of targeting therapies, so that it is the tumour that gets harmed, while the patient feels OK.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced it wants Euro 3.5 billion of the general European Union (EU) economic recovery plan it announced in November spent on energy investment. It has proposed spending Euro 1.75 billion on gas and electricity interconnection projects; Euro 500 million on offshore wind power; and Euro 1.25 billion on carbon capture and storage.…

By Alan Osborn

We should have known better than to believe the French last year when they said they wanted a new, reformed common agricultural policy with lower subsidies for farmers. That, incredibly, was what French president Nicholas Sarkozy said in September 2007. 

Incredible is right.

A year later Paris has thrown such pledges into the dustbin.

Late November’s French government paper setting out ideas for a meeting of EU agriculture ministers, when the future of the CAP was to be discussed, makes clear that France wants to preserve the traditional shape of the CAP with protection of farmers’ incomes uppermost.…

BY CHRIS JONES and DAVID HAWORTH

PAUL van Buitenen, the notorious Brussels whistleblower and sleaze-buster, has announced he will not stand for re-election as an MEP when his current term comes to an end in June.

There will be relief amongst the complacent and unworthy in all the European Union (EU) institutions that he has decided to chuck it after only five years as a parliamentarian.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has drawn up a plan to lend Euro 200 million to what it calls "the largest generic pharmaceutical company", thought to be Israel-based Teva Pharmaceutical Industries. The loan is to finance research and development for new generics and biosimilars, including clinical trials and regulatory approval procedures, backing privately backed work in Hungary, the Netherlands, Britain and Israel.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AS 2009 dawns, the European Union’s (EU) renewable energy sector knows that it has truly entered the mainstream of EU utility markets, its growth being sanctioned by ambitious legislation approved before Christmas.

After more than a year of debates, the European Parliament and EU ministers have approved a new EU directive imposing mandatory national targets for the 27 member states regarding the portion of their gross final consumption of energy in 2020 coming from renewable sources.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EMERGENCY European Union (EU) subsidies totalling Euro 300 million for dairy farmers hit by this summer’s dip in prices have been divided amongst the EU’s 27 member states. The money has been allocated according to production (within EU quota limits) from April 2008-March 2009.…

BY IRINA PRENTICE

WHILE finding accurate statistics about the Libya industry is as easy as finding your way around the country’s vast deserts without a map, it is undeniable that this is a growing paint and coating market: the country is in full economic development which includes construction, boosting demand for coatings of all kinds.…