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BY KEITH NUTHALL

MORE than a fifth of European teenagers are overweight or obese, failing to eat sufficient fruit and vegetables, the European Union (EU) HELENA project has warned.

HELENA (healthy lifestyle in Europe by nutrition in adolescence) researchers assessed 3,000 13-17-year-olds in Austria, Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Spain and Sweden.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN INNOVATIVE computer system is being developed by a European Union (EU)-funded research project that is designed to swiftly warn regulators about new unexpected side-effects of approved medicines. At present, clinicians are responsible for reporting such events, but this ad hoc system has meant "adverse effects of drugs may be detected too late, when millions of patients have already been exposed," claims the ALERT research consortium.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament has backed proposals to increase the current EU minimum excise tax rate on diesel to match that for unleaded petrol. However, MEPs want to phase the increase from Euro 302/1,000 litres to Euro 359 by 2015, with Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania having until 2016 – Spain, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal and Greece acting immediately.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

NO doubt most of us would like to depend exclusively on energy that’s clean, cheap and – most important of all – endlessly renewable, but is that actually going to happen any time in the forseeable future? A growing consensus of energy experts within Europe is not only answering ‘no’, they are adding that although renewable energies could form a significant part of total energy use internationally within a decade, even stretching that to 20 or 30 years ahead doesn’t suggest they’ll top 50%.…

BY Keith Nuthall and Monica Dobie

Universities and colleges are constantly working with business and industry to undertake commercially valuable research. University World News will regularly feature a selection of these cutting edge developments in its business pages, which we hope will inspire businesses to contact researchers carrying out this valuable work.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A NEW fishing agreement has been negotiated between the European Commission and Mauritania, slashing maximum catch allowances, after an earlier deal was poorly exploited by European Union (EU) fishermen. Under the replacement agreement – which should run from this August to July 2012 – catch quotas for EU vessels in Mauritania waters will fall by 25% for cephalopods; by between 10% and 50% for demersal species (mainly shrimp and hake); and by 43% for small pelagic fish.…

By Alan Osborn

The European Court of Justice has found that Spain broke EU regulations by failing to withdraw a number of conditions it had imposed on the acquisition of the Spanish energy company Endesa by the German company E.ON which was launched in February 2006.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE BANNING of all imports and exports of mercury in and out of the European Union (EU) has been supported by the European Parliament’s environment committee. And in tabling amendments introducing a ban by December 2010 through a proposed EU regulation on mercury by December 2010, the committee is on a collision course with the EU Council of Ministers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament has backed European Commission proposals to increase the current European Union (EU) minimum excise tax rate on diesel to match that for unleaded petrol. However, MEPs have proposed phasing the increase from diesel’s current Euro 302/1,000 litres rate to unleaded petrol’s Euro 359/1,000 by 2015, with Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania having until 2016, but Spain, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal and Greece acting immediately.…

By Alan Osborn

A mighty battle is about to be fought out in Europe over something called "the slope of the curve" and no, it’s not a beauty contest and it has nothing to do with landscaping or geometry – this is all about curbing CO2 emissions from new automobiles.…