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BY MARK ROWE and MJ DESCHAMPS

POLAND’S historic Gdansk Shipyard, which has long been the site of construction of solid steel structures and shipbuilding, is now working towards becoming the leading steel structure solutions supplier for onshore and offshore wind projects in Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers this week authorised the European Commission strike a gas supply deal with Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan, which have substantial reserves under and near the Caspian Sea. The agreement would focus on a pipeline system running under the se from Turkmenistan to Azerjaijan.…

BY ZLATKO CONKAS, BLAKE BERRY, MONIKA HANLEY, MARK ROWE and KEITH NUTHALL

EASTERN Europe is often regarded as developing in the slipstream of richer western Europe – and so far the model seems to be fitting with biofuels. That said, significant biodiesel manufacturing capacity is in place in the region, according to the European Biodiesel Board.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has taken another step towards focusing the European Union’s (EU) support for biofuel production on those fuels that create at least 35% less carbon emissions than fossil fuels. A key part of this process is using certification schemes to ensure that biofuels are green, taking account of the environmental impact of their production as well as use, and the Commission has now recognised seven of these systems.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

The recent 100% acquisition of UK voice and data communications company Airwave Solutions by Australian-based banking group Macquarie Group is the latest example of an investment company taking over a telco, writes MJ Deschamps. The Australian group’s Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund II (MEIF II) already owned just over 50% of Airwave, and is now buying all the stock.…

BY E BLAKE BERRY and MARK ROWE

NURSES working in Britain, and western Europe like to think their professional standards are high. And largely this is true. But what of nurses working in eastern Europe? With most countries in the region in the European Union (EU), it had been hoped EU nursing training and practice rules would raise professional standards.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is staging a re-evaluation of the sweetener aspartame after it agreed to bring forward from 2020 a scheduled inquiry, despite recent scientific assessments failing to reveal fresh concerns about the sweetener.

Indeed, EFSA reviewed the latest studies on aspartame only in April, but accepted a European Commission request for a new study.…

BY MARGUERITE-JEANNE DESCHAMPS, MINI PANT ZACHARIAH and WANG FANGQING

While sales of alcohol in pubs and bars in North America, Europe and the UK have seen a steady decline since the global economic downturn, experts are saying the shift from on-trade to off-trade sales of alcohol has not really had a financial impact on the alcoholic beverage industry as a whole.…

BY ANDREW KURETH

POLISH telecommunications specialists predict that the European Commission anti-trust fine levied last week against Poland’s dominant telecom operator, Telekomunikacja Polska S.A. (TPSA), could open the door to compensation claims from competitors.

Brussels hit TPSA with a Euro EU127.5 million penalty, saying it had illegally stymied competitors’ access to its network.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ENERGY companies and non-government organisations (NGOs) participating in the development of a European Union (EU) long-term energy plan to 2050, have identified fossil fuel costs as the main motor of change in future public policy. In consultation staged by the European Commission for developing an ‘Energy Roadmap to 2050’, about half of all respondents believed "global fossil fuel prices in relation to costs of domestic energy resources and long term security of supply will be the most likely key drivers…" This conclusion comes in a summary of responses released by Brussels.…