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THE INCOMING European Union (EU) energy and climate change Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete and his boss, the future European Commission vice-president for the energy union Maroš Šefčovič have highlighted the need for smart grids and electricity interconnections as way to make Europe more self-reliant for energy.…

THE INCOMING president of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker has united the Commission’s portfolios of energy and climate action, nominating Spain’s Miguel Arias Cañete as energy and climate commissioner. If confirmed by the European Parliament, he will serve for the next five years.…

Forward-thinking digital strategies and ‘bringing the book to the buyer’ were the focus of Liber 2014, Spain’s leading book fair. Alternatively held in Madrid and Barcelona, this year’s fair saw 450 publishers, exporters, printers and related editorial services set up stands in Barcelona’s Fira trade fair buildings.…

A Spanish study project is working to find a way to join dissimilar metals for use in the automotive industry to increase the proportion of lighter weight parts. Research organisation CIC marGUNE, the Co-operative Research Centre into High-performance Manufacturing, based in Eibar, in the Basque Country, is coordinating a group of Spain-based studies whose aim is fusing different metals for auto production.…

Spain’s meat industry has formally applied to its government to pursue an application to the European Union (EU) to have jamón serrano (dry-cured, mountain ham) given protected EU geographical indication (PGI) status.

The Confederation of Spanish Meat Organisations (Confecarne) and the Spanish Serrano Ham Foundation (FJSE) want the greater protection that PGI status would bring.…

Spanish meat producers seeking new export sales to compensate for repeated bans on deliveries to Russia have stepped up efforts to woo importers and agents in Greece.
Business meetings last week in Athens were arranged after an introductory series of presentations delivered there in May.…

The European Union (EU) must continue awarding free allowances for carbon emissions to energy-intensive industries such as the non-ferrous metals sector, the EU’s energy and climate commissioner-designate Miguel Arias Cañete has said.

Speaking during his confirmation hearing in the European Parliament in Brussels yesterday (October 1), he said that free allowances should be given to efficient industry players through the EU’s Emissions Trading System (ETS) to avoid pushing manufacturing out of Europe to jurisdictions with weaker climate controls.…

International airports worldwide are working hard to install biometric border controls that they hope will speed passenger movement, while maintaining, or even enhancing security.

A key example of such new installations has been at Ireland’s biggest hub Dublin Airport, where since April 2013, travellers arriving at the 74-year old airport – which handles more than 20 million passengers per year – have had the option of passing through biometric identification gates in the airport’s immigration hall.…

Over the past few years, Spain’s government has regularly questioned whether Gibraltar’s excellent economic condition has more to do with money laundering, smuggling and tax evasion than good business practice. “The wealth that Gibraltar enjoys cannot continue to be based solely on an economy that is clearly damaging for our country and for the European Union,” said Spain’s minister for European affairs Íñigo Méndez de Vigo in an interview with the Spanish newspaper ABC in September 2013.…

The European non-ferrous metals industry has welcomed the composition and the general policy thrust of the new European Commission team unveiled by incoming president Jean-Claude Juncker yesterday (Wednesday) but believes that the new team could face difficulties in confirmation hearings.

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