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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union and Russia are discussing forging an energy crisis hotline, which would enable officials in Brussels and Moscow to instantly access each other to head-off potential disruption to gas and oil supplies through political problems or technical accidents.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) summit has agreed a 10% binding minimum target for all 27 member states regarding the share of biofuels in overall EU transport petrol and diesel consumption by 2020. The agreement, which followed weeks of political manoeuvreing, has however been qualified in that biofuels must be “introduced in a cost-efficient way”.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
HEADS of government of the European Union (EU) have taken a significant step towards world leadership in the climate battle by pledging themselves to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020 (from 1990 levels) and raising the total share of energy produced by renewables to 20% by the same date.…

BY MARK ROWE
FOLLOWING the ‘big bang’ of European Union (EU) expansion in May 2004, when 10 countries acceded to the EU, followed by Romania and Bulgaria this year, analysts were curious to see how those new members with well-regarded drinks industries would cope in the new pan-EU family.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NATURAL gas-rich Kazakhstan’s increasing thirst for beer has helped prompt European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) plans to lend around US$40 million in local currency (Kazakh Tenge 5.2 billion) to a leading local beer producer. The money would assist Efes Karaganda Brewery JSC in boosting brewing capacity, infrastructure facilities and marketing departments at existing plants in Almaty and Karaganda.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has rebuffed attempts by European Union (EU) producers of a key coatings ingredient to secure anti-dumping duties on imports of pentaerythritol into the EU from China, Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and the USA. CEFIC (European Chemical Industry Council) had claimed illegally cut-priced exports of this common polyol (which produces alkyd resins underpinning many coatings) from these countries had been damaging the economic health of EU producers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is planning a Euro 40 million loan to the Turkish-owned SiseCam group, aiding its further expansion in the Russian glass beverage container sector. This will help fund the construction of a plant near Ufa, central Russia, to be run by Ruscam-Ufa LLC, a subsidiary of SiseCam’s Anadolu Cam, the largest producer of food and beverage containers in Turkey.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN today’s highly competitive energy sector, oil and gas companies and their suppliers are always looking for an edge over rivals, especially in technology. So it can only be good news that the European Union (EU) will from this year until 2013 be spending Euro 2.3 billion on energy studies through its ‘seventh framework programme’, its largest ever research spending scheme, commanding budgets worth Euro 53.2 billion in total.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FURTHER details of an important European Union (EU) fishing access deal with Madagascar lasting until 2012 have been released as the European Commission asks EU ministers to formally approve the agreement. Papers released by Brussels show that as well as 44 freezer tuna seiners, and 44 surface longliners, five French vessels may carry out exploratory line or bottom longline fishing for demersal species over two six-month periods.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FOOD industry has helped forge a plan to push governments into fighting product counterfeiting more effectively. The Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP) group (launched by the International Chamber of Commerce) will coordinate actions this year, which – said the chamber – will “ensure policymakers have sufficient information to make decisions, implement policies and apportion resources; and compel national governments to implement legislation protecting intellectual property (IP)….”…