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By David Haworth, in Brussels

By the time you read this, Ireland’s second attempt to ratify the Lisbon Treaty may have succeeded and thunderous pieties about the nation’s wisdom, maturity and farsightedness in reaching the “right” decision will be heard in all the continent’s chancelleries.

Thus the only European Union (EU) member to hold a referendum on this agreement will have been punched to the canvas by fear (the devastating recession) and loathing (the EU institutions and other capitals).

True, the Treaty’s legislative journey is not yet over.…

BY MINDY RAN

IT could be a workingman’s cafe just about anywhere: pool tables, basic food where everything is served with chips, TV permanently tuned to football. Except for one thing: this is one of two big truck stops in the Netherlands, nestled between the cross points of two main motorways in the centre of the country.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

REAPPLYING perfume ten times a day may not count as an addiction, but the ingredients found in your favourite scent could certainly lead to one: cosmetic ingredients have been historically targeted by clandestine drug manufacturers as sources of chemicals used to produce illicit street drugs such as cocaine, heroin and methamphetamines.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE POLISH and Finnish governments have come under intense legal pressure from the European Commission to implement European Union (EU) directive 2008/39/EC on plastic materials and articles in contact with food. Brussels has sent legal final warnings to Warsaw and Helsinki giving them two months to explain how they will bring their national laws in line.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MAJOR development works, which should see Poland’s airports improved for visitors to the Euro 2012 football championship it is hosting with Ukraine, have received a major boost. The European Commission has approved Euro 500 million in public development aid to 10 airports across the country.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE POLISH confectionery industry is pushing the European Commission for a loosening of the rules allowing national European Union (EU) governments to give confectionery manufacturers financial assistance when buying sugar inputs.

A letter obtained by Confectionery Production from Polbisco – the Association of Polish Chocolate and Confectionery Manufacturers – has warned that last year’s abolition of EU export refunds for its products has been damaging overseas sales.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) consumer alert network RAPEX has released a series of warnings about north American personal care products. Notably, it has told of seizures in Italy of a Canadian talcum powder called ‘Spring Fresh’ that contained arsenic, which is banned under the EU cosmetics directive.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has granted European Union (EU) geographical indication protection to the traditional Polish biscuits ‘Andruty kaliskie’. In future these sweet bakery products cannot be sold under this name in the EU unless they are made by specific traditional methods within their historic home region – the central Poland city of Kalisz.…

BY E. BLAKE BERRY

IT looks as though Buczek Automotive’s fate is sealed. The firm, a Polish producer of pipes for the auto industry, has been little more than a husk since June of last year, and industry experts say there is now no hope that it will return to the market.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE DELICATE state of European Union (EU) and Russia diplomatic and energy relations has been illustrated starkly by the inclusion of eastern European gas interconnection projects within the European economic stimulus package. National governments of these new EU member states threatened to torpedo the entire agreement – seen as the lynchpin of European efforts to shake off the recession – if their gas schemes were not included.…