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HIGH OIL PRICES BRING INDIAN MARGINAL OIL AND GAS FIELDS INTO PLAY



BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi
HIGH crude oil prices, rapidly growing domestic demand, depleting reserves, and the absence of any really significant new oil discoveries in India has forced local oil and gas companies to exploit small and remote clusters of petroleum deposits, namely ‘marginal oil fields’.…

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UNECE PUSHES TRANSBOUNDARY WATER QUALITY CONVENTION



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) is pushing signatories to its new Protocol on Water and Health to its Convention on Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes to agree detailed targets on improving European water quality.…

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INTERNATIONAL BIODIESEL INDUSTRY REPORT



BY ALAN OSBORN and MARK ROWE
IN the space of some five years, biofuels have grown from almost total insignificance in the European Union (EU) to becoming the only practical alternative to petrol as a fuel for motor vehicles and much else – albeit still at a very low level.…

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SERBIA TIGHTENS MONEY LAUNDERING CONTROLS ON PAPER - BUT CASH ECONOMY STILL POSES PROBLEMS



BY ALAN OSBORN
AN odd fact about Serbia today is that hardly anybody in the country seems curious about the way its official government financial figures don’t remotely add up. The authors of a US-sponsored report for the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) published last October – ‘Money Laundering and Predicate Crime in Serbia 2000-2005’ – acknowledge the conventional shortages of staff and computers but say they “hit on a more fundamental void: lack of curiosity.”…

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EUROPEAN COMMISSION LAUNCHES EU ENERGY POLICY PACKAGE



BY ALAN OSBORN
FOLLOWING a year or more of advance razzmatazz, the European Union’s multi-pronged energy strategy was unveiled on January 10 and while history may not see it as the “new industrial revolution” that Brussels proclaimed, there’s enough in it to engage the minds of everybody in the energy industry for perhaps years to come.…

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GERMANY RAISES CONCERN OVER RUSSIA FOOD BLOCKS



BY KEITH NUTHALL
Europe’s food and drink companies have voiced “serious concern” to the German government – the new president of the EU – over new obstacles being placed by Russia to EU food exporters. IN a memorandum to Germany, the confederation of the food and drink industries of the EU (CIAA) says that since the EU enlargement in May 2004 there have arisen numerous non-tariff barriers “such as veterinary or sanitary certificates and other discriminatory procedures.”…

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EU ROUND UP - RUSSIA, EU, CENTRAL ASIA AND NORTH AFRICA VIE FOR ENERGY DEALS



BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is casting around for allies in central Asia and north Africa in its diplomatic tussle with Russia to secure cheap and reliable energy supplies. EU energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs has flown to Algeria to discuss closer energy ties with this major gas and oil producer.…

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RUSSIA EU MEAT BAN THREAT



BY KEITH NUTHALL

RUSSIA is threatening to impose an import ban on all European Union (EU) meat products from January 1. Moscow has written to the European Commission warning of a potential embargo because of the admission that day of Bulgaria and Romania to the EU – Russia claims safety concerns over these country’s meat products, which would henceforth have free circulation in the EU.…

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RUSSIA THREATENS TO DEEPEN MEAT ROW WITH EUROPE



BY KEITH NUTHALL

RUSSIA is threatening to impose an import ban on all European Union (EU) meat products from January 1. Moscow has written to the European Commission warning of a potential embargo because of the admission that day of Bulgaria and Romania to the EU – Russia claims safety concerns over these country’s meat products, which would henceforth have free circulation in the EU.…

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ERASMUS CRITICISED AS GLOBAL EXCHANGE POLICY IS PUSHED INTO RUSSIA AND CENTRAL ASIA



BY KEITH NUTHALL

AS the European Union’s (EU) flagship Erasmus student exchange programme approaches its 20th birthday, EU education Commissioner Jan Figel has criticised it for failing poorer students across Europe. The Slovak said: "The Erasmus grant remains far too low to allow students from less favourable financial backgrounds to enjoy the benefits of the programme.…

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