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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is being pressed to fund France’s plan to establish a European Digital Library as a rival to US-based Internet search engines such as Google, which wants to scan 15 million books. A second meeting of the library’s advisory council also heard that Germany, Spain, Poland, Hungary and Italy have formally agreed to be involved in the project.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend Spain’s Aeropuertos Espanoles y Navegacion Aerea (AENA) around Euro 600 million to add to an already committed loan of Euro 500 million for expanding Barcelona International Airport. AENA plans to increase its runway and terminal capacity, in a Euro 2.6 billion project.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s Management Committee for Wine has approved a plan to allow crisis distillation of up to two million hectoliters of Italian table wine. Assuming the decision is accepted by the European Commission, distillation could begin from September 25, with Euro 1.914 per hectolitre multiplied by a wine’s abv percentage being handed over to producers facing a wine glut.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COMPREHENSIVE report on the behaviour of European Union (EU) consumers has shown that Britain’s recent deflation of prices in retail clothing is far from typical, with only six other member states in the 25-country bloc having the same experience.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
MORE than 20 years after an agreement was first proposed, a deal has been struck between the European Union (EU) and the United States over wine and both sides have acclaimed it. But has the EU given too much away?…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has pushed ahead with securing more overseas fishing access deals for EU fishing crews in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Crucially EU ministers have been formally asked to approve a deal regarding the key Pacific grounds off the Solomon Islands.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has called on European Union (EU) countries to further liberalise their professions, including legal specialists, although a Communication’ policy paper praises Britain for its reforms. The UK “is making good progress” across the board in fighting restrictive practices regarding profession entry, fees and advertising, along with Denmark and the Netherlands, said Brussels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SPANISH government has been censured by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for breaking European Union (EU) laws by failing to control waste from a pig farm, near Vera, the Costa Blanca. The ECJ said that by failing to ensure it did not pollute ground waters, especially with slurry, it broke EU nitrates and wastewater directives.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE BRITISH government is confident that it will avoid legal action from the European Commission at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which has formally warned the UK and five other European Union (EU) about not implementing a key accounting directive.…

BY MARK ROWE
IT’S summer, so in southern Europe there are, once again, forest fires. Villagers and firefighters in Spain and Portugal have been battling wildfires in recent days that have destroyed thousands of hectares of forest and scrubland, while French firefighters have also fought blazes in Provence, the Var department in the Côte d’Azur, and Greoux-les-Bains, near the French Alps.…