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BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN ALLIANCE between French and Spanish drinks producers is to share Euro 450,000 in marketing subsidies from the European Commission over three years. The money comes in Brussels’ latest announcement of marketing assistance to sell European Union (EU)-made drinks and food outside the EU.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

TURKEY’S tobacco market, the eighth largest in the world and valued this month at GBPounds 6 billion in consumer price turnover by British American Tobacco (BAT) has contracted by 5% over the past year following the imposition of a nationwide smoking ban.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN INTERNATIONAL Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) will be launched in January after 51 countries agreed upon its statute at a conference in Madrid. An initiative promoted by Germany, Spain and Denmark, it will encourage political and regulatory reforms favouring renewable energy growth while providing information on best practices and promoting technology transfers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ASSESSMENTS of nuclear industry practice by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Regulatory Review Service have started having a special focus on security. The first such review was held in Spain: it advised that the Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear establishes formal links with customs teams about notifications a radioactive source has entered or left the country.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE EUROPEAN Commission is confident that the 27 European Union (EU) member states will vote next Wednesday (Nov 12) to repeal the marketing standards for 26 different types of fruit and vegetables, thus ending the EU’s much-derided ban on curved cucumbers and other odd-shaped vegetables.…

BY JAMES BURNS, PHILIPPA JONES, KARRYN MILLER and FRANCES WANG

IF anything would drive the cosmetics sector away from mineral oils into the arms of bio-based oils and fats suppliers, it is surely the high crude oil prices that punished buyers before they began to fall steeply in the summer.…

BY PAUL RIGG

ROBBERIES, competition from immigrants and the state of the economy are the issues of most pressing concern for Spanish hauliers, according to drivers interviewed in truck stops on the outskirts of Madrid by Commercial Motor.

"I woke up with my kidneys and head hurting like I’d drunk a bottle of whisky," said Elias Calyo, 46, from Andalucia in the south of Spain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is taking legal action against three European Union (EU) countries over alleged breaches of EU water legislation. It will ask the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to impose potentially massive daily recurring fines of Euro 1,000s against Greece for breaking the EU urban waste water directive.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, JULIAN RYALL, and PHILIPPA JONES

COMPARED to their counterparts in Europe and Asia, North American men are at the bottom of the league tables for using beauty products, leaving male cosmetics marketers with both a lot of work, and a lot opportunity.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DESPITE widespread scepticism about its viability, the ITER project to build the world’s first commercial nuclear fusion reactor is now under way. It is employing specialists (nearly 300 staff and rising at the end of 2008); releasing Euro millions in research and procurement funding; and in November moved into its headquarters, in Cadarache, southern France, which is where the first nuclear fusion reactor will be built on a 180 hectare site.…