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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris has called on Germany to reconsider its decision to phase-out nuclear power within 15 years, warning it could hit the country’s economy, its security of energy supply and its greenhouse gas emissions record.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs has admitted that support for a comprehensive unbundling of EU energy suppliers and producers is weak within the EU Council of Ministers, signalling that he may have to water down planned tough draft proposals.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) report has said that 101,335 deaths a year in Britain can be attributed to environmental problems, which could be reduced making them less deadly. Indeed, across Europe, the WHO says “well-tested environmental health interventions could reduce total deaths…by almost 20%.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris has called on Germany to reconsider its decision to phase-out nuclear power within 15 years, warning it could hit the country’s economy, its security of energy supply and its greenhouse gas emissions record.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
The much-hyped summit meeting between the EU and Russia ended May 25th without agreement and amid sharp criticism on both sides, mostly over human rights. Failure of the meeting has greatly worsened European energy problems as the EU takes 40% of its gas from Russia at present and this is expected to rise sharply.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in Westminster
ENERGY experts, officials and politicians from around the word have told a senior London conference ‘The New Politics of Energy: Europe in a Global Context’ how with rapidly global energy markets changing rapidly at present, the European Union is becoming more disadvantaged in coping with the coming new realities.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Dubai
CURBING the counterfeiting and smuggling of established companies’ goods has become a pressing concern for international businesses wanting to protect their brands in the growing economies of the Middle East.

Although certain sectors are suffering more than others, the issue has been deemed serious enough for leading multinationals to team together last year to create a Brand Owners’ Protection Group (BPG) in the Middle East to tackle the region’s part in generating the US$500 billion global counterfeit trade.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Space Agency (ESA) is offering detailed snow melt data to countries surrounding the Baltic Sea, information that can aid hydrological modelling, flood forecasting and water resources management. ESA satellites are already providing snow melt data from Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, parts of western Russia and Belarus from the beginning of March until the end of May, and next year will also cover parts of Poland.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Manama, Bahrain
BAHRAIN’S minister of oil and gas affairs Dr Abdul-Hussain Ali Mirza has contested the idea that leading gas exporters will set up an OPEC-style group, as was suggested at the Gas Exporting Countries Forum two weeks ago in neighbouring Qatar.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH the key May 18 European Union (EU)-Russia summit in Samara, Russia, looming, the European Commission is continuing efforts to find suitable alternative energy partners to Moscow. Russia and the EU want to start tough negotiations on forging a new energy agreement, with both sides firming up their positions.…