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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved Euro 84.1 million subsidies from the Polish government for constructing a new airport at Lublin, eastern Poland. The state aid – deemed legal by Brussels June 4 on regional development grounds – will help purchase the airport site, then build a terminal, runway and aircraft taxiways.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD Bank’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) is planning to issue a US$21.04 million guarantee to underwrite a major expansion of capacity in the Ukraine beverage can sector. The money would cover Can-Pack, of Poland against risks of transfer restriction, expropriation, war and civil disturbance regarding its increasing the annual capacity of an existing aluminium can plant in Vyshgorod, Ukraine, from 650 million to 950 million cans.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A CONSORTIUM of 14 research teams from across Europe has been formed to create a computer simulation of the international ITER fusion reactor, to model the technology required to operate it safely. The European Union (EU)-funded Euro 3.65 million EUFORIA project will forge a network of high-powered computers with sufficient capacity to undertake this modelling, which will involve massive amounts of data.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ROAD transport has been booming in the 10 eastern and southern European countries joining the European Union (EU) in 2004. Between 1995 and 2005, traffic volumes increased by 400%, compared to 16% in longer established EU member states such as Britain, a consultants report written for the European Commission has claimed.…

BY MARK ROWE

NUCLEAR energy production costs a lot of money and so it makes some economic sense for smaller countries interested in this climate-change friendly power supply to combine forces on major projects. So it is in eastern Europe, where in February 2007, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Poland provisionally agreed to build a new nuclear plant at Lithuania’s existing Ignalina site, initially with 3,200 MWe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE NUMBER of counterfeit cigarettes seized at the external borders of the European Union (EU) fell 63% in 2007 compared to the previous year, the European Commission has concluded. Brussels said 27.1 million packets worth (20 stick equivalent) of counterfeit cigarettes were seized.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ALMOST one third of British turkey flocks being fattened for the food industry are contaminated with salmonella, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has warned. In a comprehensive study of the problem across the European Union (EU), EFSA concluded that Britain has one of the poorer records within Europe, having a contamination rate above the EU average of 30.7%.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN ALLIANCE of Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden have effectively blocked moves to create a European Public Prosecutor position. The European Commission has dropped draft proposals establishing the post within Eurojust, the European Union’s (EU) network of prosecution agencies.…

By Keith Nuthall

A UNITED Nations-sponsored global initiative to encourage business schools to teach and promote social and environmentally responsible commercial practices has gathered a critical mass of support. More than 100 business schools worldwide have now signed up to the Principles for Responsible Management Initiative.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend Euro 130 million to Poland’s Ministry of Infrastructure to fund traffic calming installations within Polish cities, where urban driving is amongst the most dangerous in Europe. An EIB note said Polish roads "have among the highest accident rates in the EU, with more than 50,000 accidents a year."…