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KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Commission paper Working together for the Future of European Tourism has proposed the establishment of research centres serving the industry at national, regional and local levels. It has also proposed the development of statistical benchmarks to evaluate EU tourist services and destinations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union research project – the Medicago scheme – is trying to discover knowledge about the genes of legumes such as the grain pea to boost their usage in Europe; five per cent of cultivated EU farmland is used for legume production, compared with more than 25 per cent in the USA.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S plans to make drastic cuts to greenhouse gas emissions, as part of the Kyoto Protocol, is worrying the country’s energy sector, particularly companies in oil-rich Alberta who claim they have been left in the dark by the federal government.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is a curious fact that whilst Britain has a lot more wind than Germany, it has significantly less wind power electricity generation. Also, why has a country blessed with as much sun as Greece, failed to develop solar panels as quickly as its fellow southern Mediterranean EU Member State Spain?…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has voted for the oncoming 2002-6 Euro 16.2 billion EU Sixth Framework Programme on research to fund studies on “all aspects of food safety in the food chain from primary production to food processing.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OUTGOING head of the EU Council of Ministers for research, François-Xavier de Donnea, has said he will write to US Secretary of energy Spencer Abraham to encourage Washington to join the ITER, (international thermonuclear experimental reactor), nuclear fusion project.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A GROUP of scientific experts assembled to advise the European Union and its Member States about the fight against chemical and biological terrorism met for the first time in Brussels yesterday. Their first task was to make a joint assessment of the existing knowledge about the subject in the EU and on the capacity of emergency services to deal with attacks of this kind.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ONLINE sales of cigarettes will exceed US$10 billion annually, or a quarter of all sales, in a decade, according to researchers at the University of North Carolina.

Smokers are increasingly buying their cigarettes via the Internet to avoid paying punitive taxes; the medium helps retailers sidestep restrictions on advertising and sales to minors.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PROPOSED priorities of the oncoming Euratom framework programme for research may be re-examined, following a vote by the European Parliament for the 2002-2006 grants scheme to given an extra Euro 100 million. This, said MEP’s, would ensure that funding for studies into thermonuclear fusion remains as with the previous programme, at Euro 800 million.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
OFFICIALS in Brussels are considering how to avoid the creation of a legal void next July when the European Coal and Steel Community expires and the European Commission is supposed to transfer its Euro 1.6 billion assets and liabilities to the main European Union budget.…