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BY KEITH NUTHALL
POLISH government plans to subsidise the development of Lodz airport with Euro 2.5 million (Zloty 9.7 million) have been approved by the European Commission. Warsaw wants to expand the state-owned regional airport’s capacity, increasing its infrastructure, (for instance installing a fire fighting team) while improving security systems.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
The European Commission has implicitly recognised that the proposed take-over of the Polish food supermarket chain Ahold Polska by the French food retailing giant Carrefour could violate Polish competition laws. Carrefour operates internationally and has 42 hypermarkets and 83 supermarkets in Poland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, ALAN OSBORN and PAUL COCHRANE
WITH the European Union (EU) securing around 25% of its gas from Russia and natural gas being an ever more important fuel for thermal power plants, the failure thus far of the European Union and Russia to agree a new long-term energy agreement has to be of concern to the electricity industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MANDATORY consultations will be staged between Russia and the European Union (EU) in future, should either side be planning to impose health-based import restrictions on the other’s food exports. This is the essence of an agreement expected to be initialled by EU ministers and Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, at a meeting in Luxembourg in mid-April.…

BY MARK ROWE
FOLLOWING the ‘big bang’ of European Union (EU) expansion in May 2004, when 10 countries acceded to the EU, followed by Romania and Bulgaria this year, analysts were curious to see how those new members with well-regarded drinks industries would cope in the new pan-EU family.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN an initiative bound to irritate any lawyer practising in English, a highly connected Francophile international group is pressing for the French language to have precedence in any translation dispute regarding European law. Why? Well, it’s simple, secretary of the Academie Francaise Maurice Druon told the European Parliament this week: “The language of Montesquieu is unbeatable.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend the Polish city of Gdansk up to Euro 91.36 million for boosting the quality and management of its dinking water supply systems and its wastewater collection and treatment networks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced it will spend around Euro 4.7 million in helping German, Greek, Italian and Polish food producers and processors export to the USA, Canada, Japan, China, India and other big non-European Union (EU) markets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced it will spend Euro 870,000 over two years in helping Polish meat producers and processors export to the USA, Canada, Japan, China, India and other big non-European Union (EU) markets. As usual in these cases, Brussels is funding 50% of planned marketing programmes, matching financing coming from nation governments or private sources.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE STEEL sectors of Poland and the Czech Republic will be under a microscope wielded by the European Commission in 2007, when Brussels decides whether state aid pumped into these industries was well spent or should be paid back.…