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BY ALAN OSBORN

LIKE other countries in the Balkans, Montenegro is anxious to shake off a reputation for financial corruption and political instability and, it has to be said, appears to be doing so with rather more success than some of its neighbours.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EXPORTERS of meat and bone meal waste shipping cargoes from the European Union (EU) to non-EU power incinerators do not have to make special declarations to environmental authorities, a European Court of Justice advocate general has recommended.

Juliane Kokott has said this is the case even if the animal waste was contaminated by BSE: "…contamination by risk material, if… incinerated, does not lead to any apparent increased risk to the environment."…

BY ALAN OSBORN

CONSIDERING everything against it – a turbulent political history since the break-up of Yugoslavia, a weak, cash-based and largely ‘grey’ economy, poor living standards and feeble inflows of foreign investment among other things – Macedonia has done very well to set up a relatively impressive slew of anti money laundering legislation in recent years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

FOOD, biotechnology and agriculture research projects will command budgets of Euro 1.9 billion from 2007-13 under a draft rewritten European Union (EU) seventh framework programme (FP7). Other targeted research budgets under the Euro 54.5 billion scheme proposed by the European Commission of potential relevance to the food sector include Euro 5.9 billion on health, Euro 1.8 million on environmental research, plus Euro 3.4 billion on nanotechnology, materials, and manufacturing.…

BY MARK ROWE

THE ONLY public university in the would-be independent Balkan nation of Kosovo has finally elected a senate, a move that observers hope may ultimately help to diffuse ethnic tensions in the country’s higher education system.

The impasse over the composition of the University of Pristina senate was provoked by a political power struggle between the country’s leading parties, and was linked to Kosovo’s impending independence from Serbia.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

A SIGNIFICANT boost in funding from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will speed the challenging switchover from ageing nuclear power stations in central and eastern Europe (CEE) to a cleaner, more efficient and more sustainable energy scene in these new and aspiring entrants to European Union (EU) membership.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament has called for European Union (EU) electricity utilities to be protected against unfair competition from those based in neighbouring Balkan countries signing an Energy Community Treaty with Brussels. This effectively extends the EU single market in electricity to nine non-EU countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) European Agency for Reconstruction (EAR) is paying Euro 5 million to install a dust filter at the Kostolac coal-fired power station, in eastern Serbia. Dust particles currently emitted are up to 23 times higher than allowed in the EU.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has drawn up plans to lend Serbia’s Torlak Institute for Virology and Immunology Euro 18 million to upgrade and expand its Belgrade production and research facilities. This will focus on selected vaccine production lines, bringing them up to international manufacturing standards, including building a new influenza vaccine production facility.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) financial watchdog, the Court of Auditors, has successfully cooperated for the first time in assessing an EU spending programme with a supreme audit organisation of a country that is neither a member state or an official membership applicant.…