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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD’S largest think tank has advised developed country governments to adopt programmes helping families achieve an acceptable work-life balance, boosting child development and general well being amongst adult workers. The Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has abandoned its usual laissez faire approach to economics and society by encouraging its rich country members to promote part-time work.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced that it will spend Euro 855,000 on promoting the sale of Portuguese wine in USA, Canada, Switzerland, Norway, China and Japan. The money will be combined with money from the Portuguese government and private sources, to create a total promotional budget of Euro 1.7 million, to be spent over the next three years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Space Agency (ESA) is developing a service that could save the insurance industry expensive shipwreck policy payouts, updating coastal maritime maps from space. The Euro 1 million Coastchart project aims at improving charts of shifting sand, mud and gravel-banks that can move 100’s of metres annually.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EMBARGO on Portugal exporting beef and cattle to the rest of the European Union (EU) will be lifted, after the EU Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health agreed the country had sufficiently improved its anti-BSE controls.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN’S performance in reducing heart disease deaths could be much improved compared with many of its European Union (EU) partners, a new World Health Organisation heart disease atlas, has shown.

Dividing a country’s annual deaths from heart disease with its population, saturated fats and beer loving Britain had a comparative factor of 2, based on 120,530 deaths in 2002 amongst a population of 59 million.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE AWARD to Cyprus of the key European Commission health and consumer affairs portfolio could signal a waning of Brussels’ enthusiasm for tougher food safety, environmental health and consumer protection rules. Cypriot Markos Kyprianou, 44, has been given the job in the new Commission that takes office in November.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) LIFE environment programme has been extended for another two years to 2005 and 2006, when it will command a budget of Euro 317.2 million. The scheme finances the development of innovative environmental techniques and methods and was prolonged by the EU Council of Ministers, with Portugal opposing the move.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PORTUGAL has been given permission to spend extra state aid on sheep, goat and suckler cow production to help farms cope with the country’s intense drought.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE AWARD to Cyprus of the key European Commission health and consumer affairs portfolio could signal a waning of Brussels’ enthusiasm for tougher rules against smoking and cigarette sales. Cypriot Markos Kyprianou, 44, has been given the job in the new Commission that takes office in November.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) fishing boats will receive additional quotas this year for catches in Greenland waters, after a renegotiation of financial compensation from the EU to the Danish self-governing territory. If a proposal from the European Commission is accepted by EU ministers, a new quota of 1,000 tonnes for snow crab will be introduced, shared by Ireland and Spain.…