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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has confirmed that countries in its eastern Europe and central Asia area of focus are booming because of high oil prices. Its annual 2004 Transition Report says Russia and the Ukraine are experiencing “skyrocketing annual growth”, making the former Warsaw Pact the world’s second-fastest-growing region (up 6.1%), next to China and its southern neighbours.…

Keith Nuthall
SPANISH national carrier Iberia has warned it may formally complain at the European Commission about alleged illegal state aid from Spain’s regional governments to Ireland’s Ryanair. Iberia chief executive Angel Mullor said his company was “gathering information” on subsidies helping Ryanair operate at regional airports, such as Santander, northern Spain, and Girona, Catalonia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN research project has created sophisticated computer software providing pollution forecasts for industrial plants, cities and air quality authorities. The TEAP project, coordinated by research network EUREKA, uses complex mathematical and chemical models to combine information about local industrial plants with daily meteorological data.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SIX year fishing agreement struck between the European Commission and the Seychelles has reduced access for European Union (EU) tuna boats to answer criticism that similar past deals have been emptying developing world waters of fish. The new agreement with the Seychelles – lasting from January 2005 to 2011 – cuts fishing opportunities for tuna long-liners by 15% by 2006.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN research project has developed a packing system for large items such as furniture and stone flooring that uses recyclable plastic and which is designed to boost its recovery. Companies from Italy, Spain and Turkey have created this environment-friendly robotic system under the umbrella of Eureka, a pan-European research network.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the acquisition by Germany’s Mannesmannröhren-Werke AG (MRW) of German company Fuchs. MRW produces and distributes steel tubes as well as steel and input stock for the production of tubes. Its parent company Salzgitter – also a German company – manufactures steel products, including large welded diameter tubes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ECSTASY has become Britain’s number two illicit drug, overtaking amphetamines, warns a new European Union (EU) narcotics report alerting public health professional across Europe to increasing abuse of most recreational drugs. The best news highlighted by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) is that heroin use and new HIV infections are falling in western Europe, although they are increasing in many eastern European countries, such as the Baltic States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SIX wine producing countries of the European Union’s (EU) intake of new member states in May have received their first allocations of EU vineyard restructuring aid. The European Commission has earmarked the largest sum to Hungary: Euro 10 million for 2004-5, followed by Slovenia at Euro 2.9 million, Slovakia 2.8 million, Cyprus nearly 2.4 million, the Czech Republic 1.7 million and Malta Euro 171,000.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ERRORS made by the European Commission lawyers have wrecked a European Court of Justice (ECJ) case designed to force Spain to recognise air traffic control qualifications gained in other European Union (EU) member states.

Judges threw out Brussels’ application, citing a litany of legal mistakes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has drawn up plans to lend Spain’s Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea (AENA) up to Euro 550 million to help modernise the country’s air traffic control systems and infrastructure in Spain. The aim, said an EIB note, was to bring Spanish ATC services “in line with the technical requirements of Eurocontrol”, helping to harmonise air traffic control standards across Europe.…