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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GOVERNMENTS and international institutions of the European Union (EU) need to better prepare for cooperative responses to large-scale natural and mad-made disasters that inevitably cause damage on a cross-border scale, the European Environment Agency (EEA) has claimed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission will spend more than Euro 2.2 million over three years promoting European Union wine. Euro 1.22 million will be shared by the Union interprofessionelle des Vins du Beaujolais and the Deutsches Weininstitut pushing their wines in Japan, Euro 440,000 goes to Portugal’s Commissao de Viticultura a Regiao dos Vinhos Verdes for campaigns in the USA, Canada and Switzerland, and Euro 150,000 to Italy’s Produttori Moscato d’Asti Associati for US sales, for instance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PORTUGUESE government is being threatened with legal action at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for failing to ensure European Union (EU) nuclear safety standards are applied at the country’s nuclear technology institute. The European Commission claims that Portugal is not complying with various demands from Euratom and the EU basic safety standards directive, such as continuously monitoring local radioactivity and alerting Brussels about any records.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission will spend over Euro 2.2 million in three years promoting EU wine. Euro 1.22 million is shared by the Union interprofessionelle des Vins du Beaujolais and Deutsches Weininstitut pushing wine in Japan and Euro 440,000 goes to Portugal’s Commissao de Viticultura a Regiao dos Vinhos Verdes for USA, Canada and Switzerland campaigns, for instance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AMONGST all European Union (EU) countries, Finland has the highest number of nurses and midwives per head of population, – 2,181 per 100,000 inhabitants – according to the recently released and latest available comparative figures. EU statistical agency Eurostat said that these 1998-2000 figures showed Portugal as having the least nurses and midwives (379 per 100,000) and Greece the second worst performer (391).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN coastguard service should be established to tighten protection of European Union (EU) shores, the European Parliament’s temporary committee on improving safety at sea has recommended following its Prestige disaster inquiry. The organisation would have the authority to assign emergency moorings and ports in the even t of a maritime accident, strictly monitor the following of ships to correct routes and prosecute the illegal entry of vessels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament agriculture committee has called for European Union (EU) member governments to have the freedom to link up to 70 per cent of tobacco growing subsidies to production, which would demolish the European Commission’s plans to phase out these supports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FIFTY years after the turn of the tide in the Second World War, the European Parliament is calling for the creation of a comprehensive international legal system to identify the whereabouts of artworks looted by the Nazis, fairly settling ownership and compensation claims.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A SIGNIFICANT easing of the regulations covering the use in the European Union (EU) of “traditional expressions” by wine producers from outside the EU has been announced by the European Commission, over the strong objections of Italy. In future the non-EU producers will be allowed to use traditional expressions that had been banned to them in the past, such as ‘vin jaun’, ‘amarone’, ‘amontillado’, ‘claret’ and ‘ruby’, provided they satisfy the Commission and Member States that a number of conditions have been met.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
REVISIONS to a European nuclear energy liability convention will increase the total accident compensation available from operators in 15 countries to Euro 1.5 billion, up from Euro 350 million. Britain, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Turkey have now signed the Protocols to amend the Paris Convention on Third Party Liability in the Field of Nuclear Energy and the Brussels Convention Supplementary to the Paris Convention.…