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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the proposed acquisition of baker’s yeast production facilities from GBI, of the Netherlands, by Britain’s Associated British Foods (ABF). Brussels approved the deal after ABF promised to offload GBI yeast businesses in Spain and Portugal to allay competition concerns.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE OLD 15 member European Union (EU) will hit its Kyoto Protocol collective target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 8% for the period 2008-2012 from 1990 levels, but only by financing pollution cuts in poor countries abroad.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A DEAL has been struck at the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers over unbundling major energy players. The agreement has been anointed by the European Commission: its president José Manuel Barroso enthused: "It is a crucial step towards the completion of the single market."…

BY MARK ROWE

NANOTECHNOLOGY can imbue textiles with eye-catching properties, but scientists and watchdogs are increasingly uncertain about the extent to which safety issues surrounding such developments have been explored.

According to the US-based Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, more than 350 nanotech consumer products are now available, such as stain-resistant clothing, (as well as cosmetics, sunscreens and food containers).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN aerospace players have been named in an 11-strong shortlist of applicants to build the first complete network of European Union (EU) satellite navigation system GALILEO. They have been chosen by the European Commission and the European Space Agency (ESA), and have been narrowed down to a choice of two per task – with one job, launch services, having a shortlist of one: France’s Arianespace.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WINDSCREENS are not such something to look through, say European Union (EU) scientists: they also act as loud speakers, attracting and magnifying noise created by a car, reflecting the racket back at drivers and passengers alike. This has made researchers in the EU-funded InMAR (‘Intelligent Materials for Active Noise Reduction’) project consider how make windscreens absorb noise rather than amplify it.…

By Alan Osborn

Many European academics and experts in the study of commercial crime are more than happy to discuss the state of play in the sector in an informal way with outsiders; others may be a little more cautious. But all are likely to suggest ways to gain further assistance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has frozen its partnership and cooperation negotiations with Russia over the Georgia conflict, just three months after the talks were launched following long delays. An emergency meeting of the EU Council of Ministers has ordered no meetings will take place with Moscow on the agreement until its "troops have withdrawn to the positions held prior to 7 August", prior to its short war with Georgia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the proposed acquisition of baker’s yeast production facilities from GBI, of the Netherlands, by Britain’s Associated British Foods (ABF). Brussels approved the deal after ABF promised to offload GBI yeast businesses in Spain and Portugal to allay competition concerns.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) researchers are investigating why the citizens of poorer European countries are less likely to contract food allergies by those in richer states. The EU’s EuroPrevall project has noted that between 2% to 4% of EU adults suffer from food allergies, with 6% of children younger than three-years-old suffering from the problem.…