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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved spending of Euro 423 million from EU budgets on subsidising the 2007-13 costs of decommissioning units 1 and 2 of the Bohunice nuclear power plant, Slovakia. Its national government promised to close the units by 2006 and 2008 respectively as a condition of joining the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the Euro 5 million in state aid which the Slovakian government wants to grant the Ba?a Dolina mining company. The money will finance the social and technical costs of the closure of its coal mine covering the years 2004 to 2010.…

BY MARK ROWE
IT is difficult to separate the present-day Czech paint industry from the industrial heritage of the country. While the rest of the world made jokes about Skoda cars during the Communist era, the Czechs fumed as they saw a once great engineering industry reduced to a laughing stock.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE MOST important driver of reform in the institutions of the European Union today is the impending enlargement of the EU eastwards, to take in (Greek) Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PLANS to lend the Slovakian government Euro 30 million to help its water sector abide by European Union environmental standards have been drawn up by the European Investment Bank. The loan would fund the design, supervision and construction of priority investment schemes in water supply and wastewater collection and treatment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ADDITIONAL European Union (EU) funding towards the decommissioning of Lithuania’s Ignalina nuclear power plant and Slovakia’s Bohunice plant has been pledged by an EU heads of government meeting in Brussels. This European Council promised that between 2004 and 2006, the EU would give the Lithuanian government Euro 70 million annually for the job.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTERNATIONAL financial assistance is required in the eastern European shipbuilding and repair industries, if they are to withstand increased competition following the planned entry of their countries to the European Union, a report ordered by the European Commission has concluded.…

Keith Nuthall
LITHUANIA has informed the WTO how it will undertake its liberalisaton commitments under the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing. Because the Baltic republic has recently joined the world trade body, it is to implement the ATC’s first three stages at the same time.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
POLAND has announced that it intends to impose retaliatory restrictions on Slovakian food exports, in response to the safeguard duties imposed on imports of sugar by its east European neighbour, which Warsaw claims were erected in a way that breaks world trade laws.…