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BY PAUL COCHRANE

THE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 attacks on the US resulted in a raft of regulations to curb terrorist financing, but seven years on Al Qaeda is still at large, has adapted to the new regulatory environment to raise funds, and morphed into an international terrorist Hydra.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WATER utilities and regulators should avoid making rash and ill designed decisions to preserve supplies, the executive director of the European Environment Agency (EEA) has said, rather focusing on long term structural solutions. "Water pricing, reducing water losses and informing on more water-efficient practices all have a part to play," Professor Jacqueline McGlade told the European Water Partnership workshop in Zaragoza, Spain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Energy Agency (IEA) has concluded that 50% of global electricity supplies must come from renewable sources by 2050 to avert the most serious effects of climate change. In a new report, the Paris-based agency said the most effective renewable energy policies involve Germany, Spain, Denmark and Portugal developing onshore windpower and China cost effective solar heating.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is considering lending Spain’s Grupo Ferrer Internacional Euro 80 million to buld and equip a new pharmaceutical research and development centre in Barcelona. The money would also help cover the Ferrer’s R&D spending from 2008 to 2011 on hypnotics/anxiolytics, antibiotics, anti-inflammatory products and cardio-vascular medicines.…

By Keith Nuthall

European academics are preparing to gather at a high level conference to discuss the problems being caused to higher education by a sharp decline in the European population. The debates at the European University Association (EUA) conference comes as the latest figures from European Union (EU) statistical agency Eurostat confirm the number of young people in European countries is already shrinking and will get smaller.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Balkans ministerial council has approved the rules of a dispute settlement mechanism for countries participating within the southeast Europe Energy Community. This links Balkans’ gas (and electricity) regulation with that of EU member states and ensures EU energy legislation is adopted in participating countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE MUCH praised Mediterranean diet – relying on fresh fruits and vegetables – is being discarded by consumers in countries where it was created. The UN’s Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is warning growing prosperity in southern Europe, and to some extent the Levant and north Africa, has led locals to eat fattier more calorific foods.…

BY ANDREW CAVE

ONE might suppose that scrapping the European Union’s (EU) restrictive block exemption legislation that helps big car manufacturers and hinders thousands of independent suppliers and garages wanting to repair their automobiles would be welcomed in the after-sales market.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has now formally opened its agency coordinating the policing of fishing rules in its member states’ fishing fleets, amidst a call for it to receive more powers. At a formal launch ceremony for the Community Fisheries Control Agency (CFCA) it its base in Vigo, Spain, a senior Spanish socialist MEP Rosa Miguélez Ramos said she hoped that "unlike previous [EU] agencies, it will extend its remit and its tasks".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel has assured farmers they will not have to comply with water framework directive to get EU subsidies. Food producers have feared a revamp of EU common agricultural policy financial controls would force them to prove they were managing water supplies to safeguard the health of nearby river systems.…