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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has asked to approve new revised fishing quotas affecting British fleets following talks on the management of north Atlantic stocks. These have involved officials from the EU, Norway, Russia, Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands.…

BY MARK GODFREY

ONE might wonder why Chinese car makers would want to go abroad: China’s auto sales are up by as much as 40% in the first half of 2009 according to the National Bureau of Statistics here. Yet Chinese car firms have been gunning hard for sales in the UK and western Europe, both deemed as vital to global expansion plans developed by automakers BYD and Chery, explained Yale Zhang, a Beijing-based auto analyst at CLSA, an investment bank.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CLOSER trade relations between the European Union (EU) and oil-rich Iraq are being negotiated, with a round of talks being held last month (May) in Baghdad aimed at forging a Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA). This would involve the creation of a special cooperation council and annual ministerial meetings to erase trade barriers – such deals are usually forged with eastern European neighbours of the EU.…

BY MARK ROWE

The expansion of the European Union (EU) continues eastwards – and the food and drink industry of the existing EU will inevitably be affected by the new competition, as will companies in the new member countries.

The next few years are likely to see several countries accede to the EU.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

THE EURO-MASHREQ gas pipeline that runs 1,200 kilometers from Egypt through Jordan and Syria to Turkey has taken 20 years to come to fruition. The end is in sight however, with the project awaiting a final tender for the last leg through northern Syria.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

UPDATED detailed guidelines have been issued for Arctic oil and gas exploration and extraction projects taking into account the region’s punishing, yet delicate environment.

They have been released by the Arctic Council, which represents countries with Arctic territory: Canada, Denmark (through its Greenland dependency), Iceland, Finland, Russia, Sweden, Norway and the USA.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

COUNTERFEITERS often claim their crime is victimless – the only losers are rich corporations who enjoy healthy profits anyway from their brands. But what if you drink the fake, and it kills you? It happens, Keith Nuthall explores the murky world of drinks counterfeiting.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE USA has given strong diplomatic backing to the construction of oil and gas pipelines from the Caspian to Europe that bypass Russia. Visiting Turkey in April, US President Barack Obama told the Turkish parliament that Washington would "support [Turkey’s] central role as an east-west corridor for oil and natural gas."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and EMMA JACKSON

IF the competition to build gas pipeline networks from Russia, the Caucasus and central Asia to central and western Europe were a horserace, commentators would say it was still too close to call.

For although politicians and diplomats in Brussels, Moscow and other European capitals would never admit it publicly, these multi-million investment projects are contests of power and influence.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has been given a mandate by European Union (EU) ministers to start negotiations with Russia over a deal to cooperate in preventing the diversion of cleaning and a limited range of other chemicals into the illicit drug trade.…