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BY KEITH NUTHALL
COLLECTIVE bargaining remains dominant for settling pay and working time conditions in European workplaces, covering around two-thirds of workers in the European Union (EU). This contrasts with one-fifth of the Japanese workers and only one-eighth of American workers, said a report from the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN and eight other European countries have signed a memorandum of understanding about constructing a groundbreaking X-ray research laser, so acute it could measure chemical reactions in real time. The UK, France, Greece, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Germany have agreed to negotiate in detail an inter-governmental arrangement for building an approximately three-kilometre-long underground laser generator.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) research network Eureka is developing a quality control device for lignite and brown coal, measuring its purity and calorific content by measuring its natural gamma radiation. Poland’s EMAG Research and Development Centre for Electrical Engineering and Automation in Mining is currently coordinating the project, with potential partners from Greece, its Institute for Solid Fuels Technology and Applications (Isfta) and company Aspo Technology.…

BY LIZ HALL
SPAIN’S paint and coating industry has every right to be self-congratulatory at present: the widespread investment and business improvements of recent years have paid off with the sector securing a well-earned place alongside its counterparts elsewhere in the developed world.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
POLAND and Taiwan have remained on a United States government watch list on counterfeiting and fraud, largely because Washington thinks they can do more to fight pharmaceuticals piracy. The US Trade Representative (USTR) office said it would push Taiwan to pass a law preventing unfair commercial use of pharmaceutical test data.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE GLOBAL Environment Facility (GEF), an independent international funding organisation, is claiming to have converted Polish power consumers to using low energy compact fluorescent lamps. The GEF’s Poland Efficient Lighting Project claims when it started work in 1995, only 10% of Polish homes used such lights, by 1998 this was 33% and now it is 50%.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is planning to lend up to Euro 55 million to Poland’s Dalkia Polska to help finance its acquisition of ZEC Lodz, a district heating and cogeneration utility for the Polish city of Lodz.…

KEITH NUTHALL
On the basis of existing policies and measures alone, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Slovak Republic, Sweden and the United Kingdom should reach their individual targets. The Netherlands and Luxembourg will achieve their targets with the help of credits from the project-based mechanisms.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend truck and lorry manufacturer MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG up to Euro 110 million to construct an assembly plant in Poland. The loan would cover half of the cost of building the factory, on a greenfield site near Cracow, which will produce 15,000 vehicles annually.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A SUCCESSFUL European Union (EU) research project, which has developed plant-based health treatment alternatives to antibiotics in feed for cows and goats, is being expanded into the fish-farming sector. The RUMEN-UP project found 23 out of 500 samples of plant materials with beneficial health effects on ruminants, especially cattle.…