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BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN scientists studying the geological disposal of nuclear waste have released papers indicating that the process could be safe over the very long term. Indeed, an assessment of European Union (EU)-funded projects on the issue published by the European Nuclear Society (ENS) has suggested that "spent fuel is an effective isolation barrier for tens of thousands to millions of years".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE GERMAN government is giving Euro EUR1.2 million to a UN project expanding and upgrading small and medium-sized generic pharmaceutical manufacturers in Asia and Africa. It is run by the UN Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) and aims to spread medicine manufacture across a continent where production is mainly concentrated in South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, MJ DESCHAMPS, PAUL COCHRANE

MOROCCO is perfectly placed to be a major bio-based oils and fats exporter to Europe. It is of course very close – being separated from Spain by only nine miles of sea. And with its agriculture fed by plentiful sunshine and its rich fishing grounds, Morocco has huge potential to become a major oil and fat feedstock producer as well as an oils and fats manufacturer in its own right though its developed industrial sector.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NEW competitors for shipping gas to the European Union (EU) from the Caucasus are emerging, while Turkmenistan has announced a major new gas find. The Turkmen government is claiming guaranteed gas supplies to Europe, by quadrupling exports over the next 20 years, after unveiling a major new gas field.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

GREEN energy projects will be a priority for infrastructure spending from a Euro EUR68.7 billion European Union (EU) fund managed from 2014 to 2020, say detailed proposals released by the European Commission. These focus on the next phase of the European Union’s (EU) ‘Cohesion Fund’, which helps countries with 90% or less of the EU average income – the 12 eastern and southern European countries becoming member states since 2004, plus Spain, Portugal and Greece.…

BY PAUL RIGG

THE DIRECTOR of Spanish e-book platform Libranda has welcomed an announcement at LIBER, the international book fair for the Spanish speaking world, that Spain’s ruling socialists plan to "super-reduce" e-book IVA [VAT] to 4%. The announcement came from Alfredo Rubalcaba, who is the socialists’ candidate to become prime minister in the upcoming Spanish elections next month.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS sector has long been the focus of some the most direct market intervention by the European Union (EU), and it would seem that the EU still has an appetite for such initiatives, consulting on new guidance on third party access to fixed networks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

The reform package for the European Union’s (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) released today has been so unpopular, it begs the question – is Europe really the best level of government to control food production subsidies?

The CAP has always been at the heart of the EU – part of the grand bargain that underpinned its launch in the 1950s between Germany and France.…

BY PAUL RIGG

SPAIN’S top book fair has been told by an American anti-piracy firm that publishers and retailers can protect themselves against illegal downloads, even as digital publishing becomes increasingly dominant.

Yuri Burka, Europe, Middle East and Africa director for Attributor, told LIBER, the international book fair for the Spanish speaking world that acting proactively against illegal downloaders did work: "There is a group of occasional offenders who can be influenced," he said.…

BY ROBERT STOKES

SPAIN’s main publishing association has demanded greater political

commitment to defending the book industry against piracy and promoting

reading.

Antoni Comas, president of the Federación de Gremios de Editores de España

(FGEE), the Federation of Spanish Publishers’ Guilds, made the demand at the

October 4 inauguration of the 29th LIBER International Book Fair in Madrid.…