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BY KEITH NUTHALL

ELECTRONIC toll manufacturers are being asked to join forces in consortia under the European Commission-backed RCI project, which is aiming to ensure new road charging equipment is interoperable across the European Union (EU). The aim is ensuring that drivers from any EU country can operate e-tolls, a key issue given Brussels wants clear common Europe rules regarding such systems.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission’s competition directorate general has said it will launch legal action against restrictive business practices and abuses of dominant positions in European Union (EU) gas markets. In a long awaited report, it promised to act against long-term downstream contracts and restricted access to capacity on gas pipelines, storage and inter-connectors between member states.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

UNIVERSITY of California, Berkeley, researchers have attacked previous studies alleging bioethanol production consumes more energy than it creates. The team said bioethanol’s "net energy balance" is positive, and that it could "play a key role" in future fuel supplies.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

The European Commission is urging the 25 EU member countries to intensify their fight against HIV/AIDS following the latest data on the spread of the epidemic and concern that, contrary to some perceptions, it is on the increase in Europe.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

THE MEDIA rush to pick up on the revival of nuclear energy as a serious UK option, made plain in the Department of Trade and Industry’s recent Energy Review consultation document, has diverted attention from which tail will, in practice, be wagging the UK energy dog over the coming months.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE FRENCH government has issued its own energy plan for Europe, which calls for nuclear power to have key role in fighting CO2 emissions, calling for increased research efforts for new technology, notably international projects focused on developing a fourth generation nuclear reactor.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

OUT of 60 recommendations made in a report last December by the European Parliament on strategies to prevent human trafficking only one specifically mentioned money laundering and even there the message was essentially "carry on as before" and "keep your eyes open".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A NEW opinion poll released by the European Union’s (EU) polling organisation Eurobarometer has shown that supporters of nuclear power have a tough task ahead persuading EU citizens that their technology is the answer to global warming plus high oil and gas prices.…

BY WESLEY GIBBINGS, in Port of Spain

THE NEW national university for the Caribbean archipelago of Trinidad & Tobago has distributed 500 degrees and diplomas and five honorary doctorates even before construction of a main campus building has been completed. The apparent anomaly is partially explained by the fact that the new University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) has assimilated the teaching staff, building and student population of the now-defunct, Trinidad-government Institute of Technology (TTIT) back in 2003.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

SOFT drinks – accused in 2004 of being a serious cause of cancer – have been given a clean bill of health by American researchers. A study performed at the Yale School of Medicine in Connecticut, US, suggests that the opposite may be true and that in fact, regular consumers of soft drinks are less likely to develop cancer of the esophagus than those sticking to – say – water, orange juice and beer.…