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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is drafting legislation seeking to break regulatory and financial logjams preventing the European Union (EU) achieving ambitious planned gas infrastructure investments. A Commission working paper predicts the proposal will come in October and warned red-tape and financial shortages are potentially delaying cross-border interconnection and pipeline projects worth billions of Euros.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE PLANNED takeover of Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Metal Forming (TKMF) by Spanish-owned Gestamp Automoción has cleared a major hurdle, receiving regulatory approval from the European Commission. It has cleared the deal without condition, using its European Union (EU) competition powers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

European Union (EU) member states have agreed a final package of aid to EU fruit and vegetable producers compensating them for lost sales following the German e-coli outbreak, with total subsidies Euro EUR226 million.

This is up from the EUR210 previously discussed and will see the EU pay for cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce, courgettes, and sweet peppers withdrawn from sale between May 26 and June 30 over E-coli contamination concerns.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CONCERNS within the European auto industry about the trade deal initialed last October by the European Union (EU) and South Korea have been addressed today (Wednesday) at the European Parliament. Meeting in Brussels, its international trade committee gave its approval to draft legislation, allowing the swift reintroduction of trade barriers, should the deal create a surge in Korean car exports to Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded research project is about to start developing a prototype zinc-polymer car battery, which its scientists hope will be significantly lighter, safer and more environment-friendly than existing batteries. These are of course based on lead acid, lithium and nickel – all carrying problems associated with waste disposal, weight and chemical stability.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE

Airport security operators may soon be using a new breed of scanning technology if innovation from Canadian technology company VOTI is approved by authorities.

At the Dubai Airport Show, VOTI told Jane’s Airport Review that its scanners were already being piloted at some courthouses and prisons in Canada, with good results.…

BY ALYSSA MCMURTRY

Spanish canned fish products giant Conservas Garavilla has said its takeover of the family owned Conservas Cuca last Thursday is "one step more in consolidating its position as a national leader of this industry." So said Estanislao Garavilla, president of holding company Galicia-based Grupo Garavilla.…

BY ALYSSA MCMURTRY

Illicit tobacco problem is reborn in high tax Spain

In the 1990’s Spain was a by-word for smuggled tobacco, but then the country successfully stifled the black market. Now, with higher taxes, contraband tobacco is back in Spain, and legitimate traders are worried.…

BY ALYSSA MCMURTRY

TO imagine fashion intrinsically and traditionally Spanish, one may imagine long, flowing flamenco dresses, shoes built for stomping, or big flowers gently placed behind tightly pulled-back hair. While this exists still in the costume world, Spanish luxury clothes designers do play on the history and culture of Spain to create apparel that is modern, sophisticated and internationally recognised.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

Big European food retailers have been delighted with a new ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) slapping down regulations imposed by the Spanish government to restrict the location and operations of hypermarkets in Catalonia. The court, whose decisions are legal precedents throughout every country and region in the European Union (EU), said Spain had failed to fulfill obligations imposed by the "freedom of establishment" provision of the EU treaties.…