Search Results for: Spain

By Alan Osborn

Budapest has been chosen as the site of the new European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), beating four other contenders (Wroclaw in Poland, Sant Cugat del Vallès near Barcelona in Spain, Jena in Germany, and Bratislava/Vienna) for the prize.…

By Keith Nuthall

Research funding for a global project that seeks to harness the thermodynamics of the stars to create a sustainable and safe nuclear fusion reactor is starting to be released. A consortium of 14 research teams from across Europe has been formed to create a computer simulation of the international ITER fusion reactor, to model the technology required to operate it safely.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ENVIRONMENTAL health officers think they are helping keep people fit and well by reducing pollution and food disease. But maybe the best move the cold, rheumatism and asthma sufferers of Britain can make to be healthy is emigrate to a Greek island, sunbathe (moderately) and eat fish, vegetables and olive oil.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A CONSORTIUM of 14 research teams from across Europe has been formed to create a computer simulation of the international ITER fusion reactor, to model the technology required to operate it safely. The European Union (EU)-funded Euro 3.65 million EUFORIA project will forge a network of high-powered computers with sufficient capacity to undertake this modelling, which will involve massive amounts of data.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is refusing to accept defeat in a long political struggle with southern European governments over plans to scrap restrictive fruit and vegetable marketing standards. A spokesman for European Union (EU) agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel said she "is determined this should go ahead and is surprised by such strong resistance to such a practical example of simplification."…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut

ALGERIA’S paint sector has been experiencing healthy growth in recent years on the back of a petro-dollar fuelled construction boom, yet should the country’s initiatives at modernising and expanding its economy continue at the same pace as over the last decade, there is potential for significantly greater expansion in the paint and coatings market.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

LAST May, a coordinated attack on essential computer networks in the tiny Baltic republic of Estonia set nerves upon edge amongst European Internet security specialists. Following the removal of a Russian war memorial from the centre of its capital Tallinn, a still unidentified group of computer users bombarded Estonian political, government, media and banking websites with so much data, they were forced offline.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SPAIN is a black-spot for water sector corruption, anti-graft campaigners Transparency International claim in a new report assessing the problem worldwide. It claimed: "In many parts of Spain, development and corruption go hand in hand. Once a ‘greased’ construction project is approved, elected officials can use money reaped from licences, land sales and property taxes to fund popular, vote-winning projects.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers are debating an urgent rescue package for a European fishing sector that is being buffeted by high fuel prices. European Commission officials are drafting formal proposals, which would suspend certain European Fisheries Fund subsidy controls for two years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

HUNGARY, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania and Slovakia are to demand a revised European Union (EU) emissions trading scheme grant them (and fellow eastern Europeans) lower targets for reducing greenhouse gas pollution. In a joint proposal expected to be presented to EU ministers this week, they argue that eastern Europe has already significantly reduced the EU’s collective CO2 emissions, and should not be expected to continue making steep reductions from 2012 onwards.…