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BY KEITH NUTHALL
GOVERNMENTS should avoid forcing national telecommunications utilities to make broadband services available to rural and remote areas, but rather rely on boosting competition in the sector, an Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report has claimed. Indeed, making such demands “would reduce competition and innovation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the acquisition of full control of Spain’s SAPROGAL poultry and grain company by private equity investment group Carlyle Group from ConAgra Foods.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TELECOMMUNICATIONS investment is being attracted to European countries with the least state involvement in dominant operators, according to a survey from the European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ECTA). It says that Britain, Denmark and Ireland are the most popular countries for telecoms investors, with Belgium, France, and Germany the least, (other countries surveyed were Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden).…

BY MARK ROWE
During the time of the Soviet Union, museums in the satellite states of Eastern Europe routinely kept short working hours, closed without notice and were all too frequently dowdy, musty and inaccessible.

With the accession of 10 new states (including eight in eastern Europe), into the European Union, the future for museums from Lithuania to Malta, and from Slovenia to Slovakia is much brighter.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SITTING in a comfortable flybe. seat, maybe flying home from a colourful continental European destination, you will already know how Britain’s European Union (EU) membership improves your life.

Those simple passport control procedures at continental airports – if there were are any at all – are a direct result of the demolition of national borders by Brussels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have approved an agreement with west Africa’s Guinea Bissau, which will guarantee access to its fishing grounds for Italian, French, Greek, Portuguese and Spanish fishermen until June 2006. The deal involves the Guinea Bissau government being granted Euro 7.26 million a year in financial compensation.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved a joint venture involving national carrier Iberia and Cobra, (owned by Spanish construction group ACS). The venture Serpista will repair and maintain ground-handling equipment. Brussels said there were no serious competition concerns as rivals could “relatively easily enter the market.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NEW socialist government in Spain has rewritten plans developed by its conservative predecessor to boost water supplies in the south, proposing a Euro 3.7 billion scheme that relies heavily on desalination plants. Dumping controversial plans to transfer water from the northern Ebro river basin to southern Spain, the José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero government has also proposed making improvements to existing water facilities and better exploiting groundwater reserves.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
LOCAL authorities in Camden and Nottingham have been held up as good practice examples in the promotion of environmentally sustainable transport by the European Union’s (EU) SMILE project, which concluded last week at a conference in La Rochelle, France (27-28 May).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
STATE aid of Euro 30 million has been authorised for the Spanish olive-pomace oil industry, as compensation for expensive manufacturing improvements it has been forced to make in the wake of a 2001 scandal about polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) contamination.…