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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has released Euro 8.6 million from its EU Solidarity Fund – designed to help national governments cope with national disasters – to assist continuing clean up operations following the Prestige oil spill, off Galicia, Spain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PLANNED reform of the European Union’s (EU) Euro 12.5 million-per-year hop subsidy regime could push hop producers towards promoting speciality varieties, of interest to brewers seeking an edge in flavour and bitterness, a National Hop Association of England spokesman has said.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed Euro 15 million a year in subsidies are made to the fishing industries of the Azores and Madeira, (part of Portugal), Spain’s Canary Islands and the French departments of Guyana and Reunion. Brussels says they need compensation because they are part of the EU but far from European markets.…

BY ALAN OSBORN and MONICA DOBIE
THE RELEASE of Euro 443 million in subsidies for European wine producers on the eve of the World Trade Organisation summit in Cancun dedicated to rooting out such payments has dismayed some New World growers while being welcomed in Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally proposed the plan announced at the inconclusive World Trade Organisation summit in Cancun, Mexico, to decouple cotton grower aid payments from production rates, converting them into direct payments. Although Brussels has shied from complete decoupling, its stated aim is to remove incentives for growers to over-produce cotton.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GREEKS are the European Union’s highest spenders on footwear and clothing, taking into account the proportion of annual household income spent on these items, according to figures released by Eurostat, the European Union’s statistical agency. Greek consumers devoted 11 per cent of their spending on shoes and clothes in 2001 and 2000 – the latest available comparative statistics covering the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH European Union ministers poised this autumn to choose their preferred site to host the international thermonuclear experimental reactor (ITER), an independent EU assessment of the two key EU contenders has officially concluded that both the French site Cadarache, and the Spain’s Vandellós “would be likely to win the international site selection”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ACTION plan designed to further spur growth in the key broadband and third-generation (3G) mobile sectors has been unveiled by the European Commission and will be presented to the European Union’s (EU) spring summit in Brussels next month.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH European Union ministers poised to choose their preferred site to host the international thermonuclear experimental reactor (ITER), an independent EU assessment of the two key EU contenders has officially concluded that both the French site Cadarache, and the Spain’s Vandellós “would be likely to win the international site selection”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FISH farming businesses in of Portugal’s Madeira and Spain’s Canary Islands should be guaranteed subsidies over the next four years. The European Commission wants European Union ministers to subsidise businesses in these outlying areas. In the Canary Islands, fish farms would claim Euro 1,300 per tonne of aquaculture products for up to a regional total of 1,157 tonnes-a-year, and in Maderia, they would claim Euro 1,080 per tonne up to 50 tonnes-a-year.…