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BY MATTHEW BRACE
WITH Australia sharing the front-line in President Bush’s war against terrorism with Britain and the USA, and also having witnessed its citizens dying in last year’s Bali nightclub terror attack, it is maybe not surprising that it has been tightening its money laundering legislation, especially as regards terrorists.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has been laying preparations for possible fuel shortages associated with a possible war in the Middle East, summoning its special group on petroleum provisions to analyse existing European Union (EU) fuel stocks and supplies. The Commission wants every Member State to stockpile enough fuel to last for 40 days of standard consumption.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) funded project has been launched, which will support the restructuring of Macedonia’s steel sector. This Euro 500,000 technical assistance project is being managed by the EU’s European Agency for Reconstruction, which is helping to rebuild the war-damaged economy of the southern Balkans.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
AUSTRALIA’S Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Clean Power from Lignite is developing a system for heating and squeezing coal that will cut the need for extra energy to evaporate water content in this much maligned fuel by up to 90 per cent.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s research Commissioner Philippe Busquin has signalled that the European Commission is prepared to sink Brussels’ newly replenished research budgets into developing techniques for storing nuclear waste underground. After a visit to the European Underground Research Infrastructure for Disposal of nuclear waste in Clay Environment (EURIDICE), in Mol, Belgium, the Commissioner said: “A lot a progress has been made towards identifying appropriate sites and developing the necessary disposal technology for underground waste management.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is putting itself in a position to reap the economic rewards of developing renewable energy technologies ahead of the United States, an American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting has been told. “Europe has made a major commitment to renewable energy and is leading the United States in deploying it,” said Allan Hoffman, a renewables specialist and senior advisor to Winrock International’s Clean Energy Group.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A RESEARCH project funded by a European Commission Euro 1.62 million grant is to develop technology to install hydrogen fuel pumps in petrol stations by connecting them to a country’s existing natural gas supply network. The international Hydrofueler project – led by the University of Warwick – thinks that hydrogen can be crated form natural gas and delivered to cars via existing pipelines.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN electronic communications and information technology industry has – finally – hit rock bottom and is now slowly crawling out of the deep recession into which it had slipped, according to a report published by the European Information Technology Observatory (EITO).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
LEGAL professionals across the European Union (EU) are to be asked whether they support the idea of creating a parallel body of European contract law that would exist alongside national legislation. The idea is to create a set of legal principles that are recognised across the EU as a tool by which cross-border disputes could be resolved, but which – unlike standard European legislation – would not supersede national rules.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN EU-funded research project is exploring ways of preserving beneficial probiotic bacteria in foodstuffs during processing and storage. The PROTECH project is focusing on breakfast cereals, yoghurts and muesli bars. *http://www.vtt.fi/virtual/proeuhealth/index.htm…