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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLD Bank report has called on governments in central/eastern Europe and central Asia to improve the efficiency of their judicial systems, improving the enforcement of decisions and making judges more accountable. It also calls for a reduction in case backlogs and judicial corruption.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PLANS to create European Union (EU)-wide driving licences have received a set back, with the EU Council of Ministers failing to approve the directive that would bring them into being. The German government, supported by France, Austria, Poland and Denmark successfully blocked agreement of the proposal, which will now be pushed by the UK government, which took over the EU presidency on July 1.…

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THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is lending Euro 220 million to modernise Europe’s largest lignite fuelled power plant, in Belchatow, central Poland, making it more efficient and reducing its polluting emissions. The loan will upgrade four out of the 12 electricity generation units of the BOT-Belchatow Power Plant, which generates about 20% of Poland’s electricity production.…

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A HEAVYWEIGHT European international consortium will spend Euro 20 million on trying to develop commercially-viable flat plastic light sources, that could be moulded to fit spaces in homes and offices. The OLLA project (‘high brightness Organic Light-emitting diodes for information technology and Lighting Applications’) aims to build on basic research into these materials.…

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FUSION energy research cooperation agreements have been signed between EURATOM, the European Atomic Energy Community, and new European Union members Poland and Slovenia. The deals will see special fusion research units being created in both countries: Poland’s unit will develop plasma diagnostics for fusion devices including Britain’s MAST, Germany’s TEXTOR and France’s TORE-SUPRA; Slovenia’s will conduct plasma-wall interaction field and activation calculations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WORKING hours in Britain exceed those in most new European Union (EU) member states from eastern and southern Europe says a report showing how western Europe workers generally work fewer hours. Britain’s usual weekly work hours, said the European Industrial Relations Observatory are 43.1, only exceeded in the expanded EU by Latvia’s 43.3.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has conditionally approved the greenhouse gas pollution allocation plan of Poland and the Czech Republic, leaving the European Union (EU) just two countries shy of approving all national components of its emissions trading scheme. Now only Greece and Italy await approval.…

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THE EUROPEAN Parliament and the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers have compromised on the final shape of a directive reducing sulphur content in marine fuels. The result is legislation that permits higher sulphur usage than the parliament wanted, cutting its marine fuels content to 1.5% by 2007, for all vessels in the Baltic, the North Sea, and the English Channel, and passenger ships in all EU seas and oceans.…

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THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has moved to extend its control of fishing in the Baltic Sea, following the accession of four Baltic eastern European states to the EU last year. With Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania becoming member states, the Baltic is largely an EU zone, excluding small stretches of Russian territorial waters – off Kaliningrad and St Petersburg.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has accused nine European Union (EU) governments of dragging their feet over promoting biofuels in their countries. It has sent critical formal notices to Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland and Slovenia accusing them of failing to submit national reports framing 2005 targets for biofuel consumption, as required under the Biofuels Directive.…