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IT is a curious irony that for an industry as technical as cogeneration that maybe the biggest handicap to its sustained growth in Europe is actually emotional. Both commercial markets and governments are swayed by sentiment as well as hard cash – and currently both influences are failing to pull in co-gen’s favour.…

IT is a curious irony that for an industry as technical as cogeneration that maybe the biggest handicap to its sustained growth in Europe is actually emotional. Both commercial markets and governments are swayed by sentiment as well as hard cash – and currently both influences are failing to pull in co-gen’s favour.…

AS the electronic communications sector becomes ever more complex – with telcos adding Internet and content-based services to their voice and text – providing customer care can be increasingly demanding.

It can be expensive and unwieldy when care is delivered through traditional call centre models: major telcos can easily employ 15,000 people to help users deal with technical, operational and billing problems.…

The European Commission has offered support to Lithuania following the recent confirmation of cases of African Swine Fever in local wild boar, amidst concerns the disease could spread to commercial piggeries. The European Union (EU) executive has sent veterinary experts to the southern Šalčininkai and Alytus-Varėna regions to help local vets stop the virus infecting other animals.…

SPANISH meat producers secured increasingly healthy prices in 2013 as the country crept out of recession in the second half, figures from its ministry of agriculture, food and the environment (MAGRAMA) show.

Category E pork (55% – 59% leanness) rose by 11.4% on 2012 to average EUR1.936 per kilo, 10.3% greater than the European Union (EU) average, peaking at EUR2.171/Kg.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission is to consult with ministers and MEPs on whether to draft a law insisting that such information must be included on all food products using meat as an ingredient. It follows the release yesterday (Tuesday) of a report on origin labelling for meat.…

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Fashion retailer ASOS showed online convenience and price are still a winning combination with shoppers. The UK-based online retailer continued its impressive trajectory this year, announcing pre-tax profit had reached GBP54.7m (US$88.3m) for the year ending 31 August, compared to GBP40m in the same period of last year, with retail sales jumping 40% to GBP753.8m, up from GBP537.9m last year. …

A series of infrastructure improvements are in the works at Italy’s major airports following the end of a decade-long freeze on airport charges which has left the country’s transport hubs way behind the pack.

Indeed, 2013 was a good year for Italy’s airport sector: a new charges scheme was introduced at major airports across the country, putting an end to a decade-long policy paralysis.…

THE DIPLOMATIC stand-off between the European Union (EU) and Russia over their respective links to Ukraine throws into stark light the EU’s desire to secure energy security of supply and to decrease its reliance on an unpredictable Russian government. These needs were reflected in the announcement in October of a list of 248 energy infrastructure projects that the EU wants built in in the next decade, all in some way connecting EU member countries through electricity, gas and oil links.…

A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project has developed technology to make sanitary fabric aseptic using zinc nanoparticles, enzymes and ultrasounds. The SONO Project’s ‘sonochemical’ process has been pioneered at Spain’s Polytechnical University of Catalunia. “Like silver, zinc has a strong antiseptic effect.…