Search Results for: Portugal

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced that it will be spending Euro 2.85 million promoting the sales of Italian and Portuguese wines within the European Union (EU). The money will finance marketing and information campaigns across Europe already planned by relevant wine sector organisations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ANOTHER eight traditionally made European food products have been added to the European Union’s (EU) protected geographical indication lists, preventing these foodstuffs being copied by food manufacturers based outside the regions where they are traditionally manufactured.

Three of these newly protected products are from Portugal: a special rice – ‘Arroz Carolino das Lezírias Ribatejanas’; a smoked sausage ‘Alheira de Vinhais’; and a ham ‘Presunto de Vinhais’, also known as ‘Presunto Bísaro de Vinhais’.…

By Alan Osborn

European collaborative research network EUREKA has strengthened its links with the European Union (EU) amidst concerns that the independent initiative is "running out of steam". The closer connection with EU institutions has manifested itself in the Eurostars programme – a six-year ?800 million project to support high risk research by small and medium-sized European companies, which is a joint EUREKA-European Commission initiative.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

HUNGARY, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania and Slovakia are to demand a revised European Union (EU) emissions trading scheme grant them (and fellow eastern Europeans) lower targets for reducing greenhouse gas pollution. In a joint proposal expected to be presented to EU ministers this week, they argue that eastern Europe has already significantly reduced the EU’s collective CO2 emissions, and should not be expected to continue making steep reductions from 2012 onwards.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers are debating an urgent rescue package for a European fishing sector that is being buffeted by high fuel prices. European Commission officials are drafting formal proposals, which would suspend certain European Fisheries Fund subsidy controls for two years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AGREEMENT has been secured on a new European Union (EU) directive reducing or banning 33 pollutants – mainly pesticides and heavy metals – found in EU rivers, lakes and coastal waters. By 2018, member states will have to reduce pollution from "priority substances", while blocking or phasing out emissions, discharges and losses of "priority hazardous substances".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE BRITISH government is facing legal proceedings from the European Commission, which claims that the UK has failed to arrange for a sufficient number of checks on lorry drivers’ working time. Brussels is taking action at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), alleging Britain is breaching a directive – 2006/22/EC – on implementing road transport employment legislation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has authorised Portugal to halve the excise duty on beer produced in its Atlantic archipelago Madeira, even where breweries’ production exceed the maximum capacity allowed under EU rules for such a reduction.…

BY LEE ADENDORFF, in Lucca, Italy

OF the 3,000 students who will graduate from fashion school this year in the UK, only 500 will find jobs in the clothing and textile sector. They may be highly creative and excellent designers, but this is not always what the industry wants: many fashion producers say British graduates are ill-prepared to compete and adapt to a workplace characterised by overseas manufacturing bases, highly computerised environments and complex logistical production scenarios.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

REFORMS to the European Union’s (EU) cotton subsidy system have been approved two years after previous changes were outlawed by the European Court of Justice. It ruled these 2004 reforms had been flawed through a lack of impact assessments and consultation.…