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BY GERARD O’DWYER

FOR those seduced by the idea that Nordic countries are full of healthy statuesque blond super-beings eating perfect diets and exercising regularly, it may come as something of a surprise to learn that obesity is on the rise in the region.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MAJOR development works, which should see Poland’s airports improved for visitors to the Euro 2012 football championship it is hosting with Ukraine, have received a major boost. The European Commission has approved Euro 500 million in public development aid to 10 airports across the country.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE POLISH confectionery industry is pushing the European Commission for a loosening of the rules allowing national European Union (EU) governments to give confectionery manufacturers financial assistance when buying sugar inputs.

A letter obtained by Confectionery Production from Polbisco – the Association of Polish Chocolate and Confectionery Manufacturers – has warned that last year’s abolition of EU export refunds for its products has been damaging overseas sales.…

BY ANDREW CAVE

Food commodity prices are seldom out of the news nowadays, due to a mushrooming global population, the food-for-fuel controversy, an increasing focus on sustainability and the continued growth of the organic sector. However, beyond the generality of crop prices spiralling to new highs in 2007 and 2008 and then plummeting – in some cases – back to where they were before the boom, the picture is far from uniform.…

BY MARK ROWE and KEITH NUTHALL

RUSSIA’S belligerent approach to its neighbours in recent years has ranged from military conflict with Georgia to energy disputes with Ukraine and a string of commodity-based stand-offs, such as rows with Norway over fish products, Poland over meat supplies and Belarus over sugar.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) anti-fraud office OLAF probed a flood of fraud allegations about Bulgaria and Romania in 2008, worsening these new EU member states’ reputation as graft centres. There were 142 tips of financial fraud and misdemeanours about Bulgaria made to OLAF last year, and 87 on Romania – way above other countries (Germany, Italy and Poland being the subject of the most tips amongst remaining member states).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ARSENIC and lead has been discovered by UK authorities in unmolassed sugar beet pulp pellets exported from Austria, the European Union’s RASFF food product consumer safety alert system has warned. Meanwhile, Finnish health authorities have reported the presence of norovirus in frozen raspberries from Poland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has opened nine case files as it attempts to force European Union (EU) member states to comply with EU accounting and auditing directives. Brussels is taking four briefs to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) regarding Austria, Ireland, Italy and Spain, which it accuses of failing to comply with the 2006 statutory audit directive (2006/43/EC).…

BY MARK ROWE

The expansion of the European Union (EU) continues eastwards – and the food and drink industry of the existing EU will inevitably be affected by the new competition, as will companies in the new member countries.

The next few years are likely to see several countries accede to the EU.…

By Leah Germain

Telecommunications giant Nokia Siemens Networks has just received a Euro 250 million loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to support the research and development of cutting edge Radio Access Network technology (RAN).

The company is a global joint venture is run by Finland’s Nokia Corp with Germany’s Siemens AG.…