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BY KEITH NUTHALL

A MAJOR Spanish pigmeat processing company may have to repay Euro 15.1 million in government aid it received for improving its manufacturing plants in Spain. El Pozo Alimentacion, which makes ham, sausages, paté and other meat products, is now the focus of a European Commission investigation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRITISH hauliers are still at risk when driving though long road tunnels on the continent, with European governments failing to introduce officially recommended safety designs and equipment.

So concludes the latest European Union (EU)-supported European Tunnel Assessment Programme (EuroTAP) safety probe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

PETROL and diesel in Spain could become cheaper by the European Commission threatening legal action to force the abolition of the Spanish ‘Impuesto sobre las ventas minoristas de determinados hidrocarburos’ motor fuel tax. This is charged in addition to standard excise duty and rates are set by regional governments.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi; SAEED AKHTAR BALOCH, in Lahore; and KEITH NOYAHR, in Colombo

THE SOUTH Asian knitwear industry is experienced mixed fortunes at present, with the impact of China’s production boom and the global liberalisation of the textile sector still changing sub-continental fortunes.…

BY ANDREW CAVE

SCARCELY a week goes by without volumes of newsprint or prime broadcasting slots being devoted to new and ingenious ways of mitigating climate change.

Global warming is now widely regarded the single most important issue the world faces, so it is no surprise that it is exercising the minds of the world’s most creative scientists.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament is pressing for an effective re-nationalisation of European Union (EU) powers to support the continued existence of an EU cotton production industry. In non-binding amendments to a proposed EU subsidy system largely disconnected from cotton production levels, MEPs called for national funds earmarked for wide-ranging actions protecting the EU industry, largely in Greece and Spain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has banned imports of sunflower oil from Ukraine, because of concerns it could be contaminated with mineral oil. Brussels has been pressing for guarantees that Ukraine sunflower oil is safe since a 40,000 ton batch exported to France, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands was found contaminated in April.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ALMOST one third of British turkey flocks being fattened for the food industry are contaminated with salmonella, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has warned. In a comprehensive study of the problem across the European Union (EU), EFSA concluded that Britain has one of the poorer records within Europe, having a contamination rate above the EU average of 30.7%.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN ALLIANCE of Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden have effectively blocked moves to create a European Public Prosecutor position. The European Commission has dropped draft proposals establishing the post within Eurojust, the European Union’s (EU) network of prosecution agencies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WITH Dmitry Medvedev becoming Russia’s new president, the European Union (EU) has been pushing ahead to secure oil and gas supplies independent of Moscow. EU energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs and external relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner met with Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey diplomats and officials to discuss gas pipeline links.…