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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE FREIGHT Transport Association (FTA) has challenged conclusions from the European Commission that the opening of Britain and other western European labour markets to workers from eastern European countries "has been positive on balance".

Brussels’ Employment in Europe 2008 report claims the influx of mobile labour from the 10 eastern European countries that have joined the EU "has not led to serious disturbances on the labour market."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE LIKELIHOOD of agreement over the European Union’s (EU) climate change package at this week’s EU summit has been made clear at a European Parliament debate. With heads of government being asked to cut a deal in Brussels on Thursday and Friday (11-12 Dec), MEPs debated last Thursday the narrowing of options their leaders would face.…

BY MARK ROWE

THE UKRAINE is a key player in any effective plan for guaranteeing European Union (EU) energy security without tugging forelocks in Moscow’s direction. And while the country actually has 395 million barrels of proven oil reserves (the majority located in the eastern Dnieper-Donetsk basin), attention has recently focussed on the potential and actual role of the country’s six refineries as a reliable source of product internationally.…

BY MARK GODFREY

RUSSIA may have invaded Georgia this August, but its wine industry seems almost gung-ho about the import embargo on Georgian wines that the Russian government has imposed since 2006. It has proven a "huge stimulus" to local winemakers to improve quality, according to the head of a project tasked with opening new markets for the country’s wines.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

INTRODUCTION

About 10 years ago the American distiller JB Wagoner decided to market a fiery liquor made from the cactus-like agave plants growing in the hills on his estate at Temecula in California. He called it "temequila." It soon became known as "the American tequila," proving indistinguishable in taste, texture and effect from the well-known Mexican drink.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DESPITE widespread scepticism about its viability, the ITER project to build the world’s first commercial nuclear fusion reactor is now under way. It is employing specialists (nearly 300 staff and rising at the end of 2008); releasing Euro millions in research and procurement funding; and in November moved into its headquarters, in Cadarache, southern France, which is where the first nuclear fusion reactor will be built on a 180 hectare site.…

BY E BLAKE BERRY

IT is common knowledge that the flood of Polish workers moving to Britain for well-paid work has started turning, as Poles are lured home by a stronger domestic currency and family ties – many of these returnees are transport workers.…

By Alan Osborn

Three young researchers, from Poland, Slovakia and Britain, were awarded the top prizes in the EU Contest for Young Scientists in Copenhagen on September 25th against competition from national scientific prize-winners from 39 European countries plus Brazil, Canada, China, Mexico, New Zealand and the USA.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed re-erecting anti-dumping duties on imports of polyester staple fibres from Belarus, China, Saudi Arabia and South Korea after concluding that lifting them would lead to further dumping of this yarn on European Union (EU) markets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) research network Eureka has launched an innovative research project developing the plasma (ionised heated gas) treatment of textiles, which can improve their adhesive properties, amongst other benefits. The Czech Republic’s Spolsin Spol and Sintex, are planning to work with Poland’s University Of Bilsko-Biala; and Wroclaw University Of Technology; along with the Slovak University Of Technology, in a Euro 1.14 million project lasting three years.…