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By Alan Osborn

Technology researchers will benefit from a new research investment of ?18 million from the European Commission, designed to reinforce its support for the LTE (Long Term Evolution) standard for the fourth generation of wireless telecommunications, in preference to the alternative WiMax technology.…

BY MINDY RAN

IT could be a workingman’s cafe just about anywhere: pool tables, basic food where everything is served with chips, TV permanently tuned to football. Except for one thing: this is one of two big truck stops in the Netherlands, nestled between the cross points of two main motorways in the centre of the country.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IN-CAR technology recording and analysing driver motoring styles, then releasing alarms if motorists depart from these norms in dangerous circumstances, has been unveiled by a European Union-funded research project. Researchers from Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Spain, Italy and Lithuania in the DRIVSCO network say their system produces fewer false alarms than sensors focused on standardised driver-error prompts and external risks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MEDITERRANEAN countries yesterday blocked a European Commission initiative to temporarily ban the global trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna, despite warnings that this key sushi ingredient source is being overfished. France, Spain, Italy, Malta, Greece, and Cyprus opposed backing a proposal from non-member state Monaco to ask next March’s meeting of parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to ban the trade.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

THE EUROPEAN Commission has ordered 18 European Union (EU) member states to collectively repay Euro 214.6 million in misspent food production funding. France owes Euro 71 million for weak on-the-spot checks regarding environmental and animal welfare standards, ensuring ‘cross compliance’ commitments made by producers are followed.…

 By David Haworth, in Brussels

Among many things the ambitious Swedish presidency of the European Union hopes to achieve in the next five months is a revival of the so-called ‘Lisbon Process’. The what? A few may recall this initiative was launched in 2000 to chart the way the EU would become “the world’s most dynamic, knowledge-based economy.” Rhetorically it became a bouncy castle for politicians, left and right, who could jump up and down with ‘Lisbon’, confident of its crowd-pleasing potential, in Brussels and Strasbourg at least.

But the applause soon died – so much so the whole effort had to be revived a mere five years after it began.

It hasn’t been going great guns since then, either. Not unreasonably, however, EU officials think it’s worth taking out of the drawer in the context of the worst recession since the war.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Canada are about to embark on detailed negotiations to upgrade their existing long-standing nuclear cooperation agreement. A key aim of the talks, European Commission and Canadian officials told World Nuclear News, was the authorisation of widespread nuclear technology transfers between the EU and Canada, which are currently tightly restricted.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

RASFF, the European Union’s (EU) food safety alert service, has warned of unauthorized usage of E 210 – benzoic acid in certain chocolate and strawberry syrup manufactured in Spain. The service has also warned food safety officials have discovered excess content of E 200 – sorbic acid in certain Spanish apricot jam consignments.…

By David Haworth

Among many things the ambitious Swedish presidency of the European Union hopes to achieve in the next five months is a revival of the so-called ‘Lisbon Process’.

The what?

A few may recall this initiative was launched in 2000 to chart the way the EU would become "the world’s most dynamic, knowledge-based economy."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is taking Italy to the European Court of Justice for failing to implement the 2006 European Union (EU) statutory audit directive – approved following the country’s notorious Parmalat scandal.

Its implementation deadline was June 2008; its aim – boosting European audit quality.…