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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE LATEST agricultural statistics from the European Commission paint a gloomy picture for the European Union (EU), with production falling 10.4% in 2005 from its heady levels in 2003 and 2004, and with prices also falling, by 11.5%.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is to stage negotiations with the Peruvian government on forging a fishing access agreement with the European Union (EU), its first struck with a South American country. If successful, a deal would be a rich prize for EU fishermen, given the plentiful stocks that teem Peru’s deep Pacific Ocean territorial waters.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ITALY and Spain, supported by France, Greece, Portugal, Malta and Cyprus have called on the European Commission "to ensure the swift payment of its voluntary contribution to the International Olive Oil Council (IOOC) "to allow the resumption of its promotional activities."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally told Spain to abolish 25% tax credits offered to Spanish companies investing abroad, claiming these benefits break European Union (EU) competition laws. Brussels has given Madrid one month to agree. If not, a formal inquiry would be opened: the first stage of legal infringement proceedings that could lead to the European Court of Justice.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

The Brussels plan to impose anti dumping duties on shoes imported into the EU from China and Vietnam has sharply divided EU governments with as many as ten of the 25 member states voting against it in the EU’s anti-dumping committee this week.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A ROW has broken out between European Union olive oil exporting countries and the European Commission over its withholding contributions to the International Olive Oil Council (IOOC). Italy and Spain, supported by France, Greece, Portugal, Malta and Cyprus, told the EU Council of Ministers they wanted the Commission "to ensure the swift payment of its voluntary contribution to the IOOC…to allow the resumption of its promotional activities."…

BY ALAN OSBORN

FACT BOX

Population of Cyprus: 793,100

Number of students enrolled at university: 5,000 (see text)

Percentage of university students who are Cypriots: 90%

Percentage of Cypriots (excluding mature students) attending university in Cyprus or other countries: 80%

INTERVIEW

OUT of every ten young people who apply for a place at the University of Cyprus, only three actually gets admitted.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

A new EU energy policy involving investment of some 1,000 billion euros in infrastructure and technologies is expected to be approved in broad outline by the EU heads of government at their summit in Brussels later this month though a major dispute over the cross-border take-over of key companies is still unsettled.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A PRACTICAL and regional initiative to remove barriers in trading electricity between neighbouring European Union (EU) countries has been launched by the European Regulators’ Group for Electricity and Gas (ERGEG). It is grouping states’ regulators and utilities together to focus on regulatory and technical difficulties impeding cross-border sales of electricity for countries sharing frontiers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CEREAL production and prices in the European Union (EU) both slumped in 2005, compared with 2004, according to the latest food market figures from EU statistical agency Eurostat. Faced with a bumper harvest in 2004, producers struggled to secure good prices, even by cutting back on production, a process aided by poor weather.…