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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed letting fishing crews from Germany, France, Poland and Spain avoid detailed cod catch controls and potentially time-consuming statistical declarations for catches in the North Sea and off western Scotland. Brussels wants European Union (EU) ministers to allow selected groups of vessels to avoid following special fishing effort rules imposed by the EU’s 2008 regulation 1342/2008 on cod stock conservation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AS Barack Obama wrestles with the challenge of pushing healthcare reform through the US Congress, he could create political capital by highlighting the need to fight fraud in the sector. Keith Nuthall reports.

IT is something of a sacred cow.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has now handed over Euro 3.3 million from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) to the Spanish government to help retrain 1,100 workers in the Catalonian textiles sector. The money will be targeted at 1,720 workers made redundant recently from textile firms in Catalonia, who have shed 33% of their jobs in the past four years.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

WINE bottle labels that contain colour and hue combinations, such as brown, yellow, black and green, on rectangular and hexagonal patterns are most appealing to consumers according to new research published by the American Association of Wine Economists.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN research project has developed cosmetics products from German wine-making waste. German chemical analysis company Spectral Service and Spanish natural cosmetics company Alfaverde Productos Naturales gently dried fermentation leftovers into powders containing many wine nutrients. These include proteins, B vitamins, minerals and polyphenols, preventing heart or circulation diseases.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WHITE knight deal – sweetened by around Euro 4.5 billion (US$6.5 billion) in German government subsidies – to transfer control of Opel-Vauxhall to a Canadian-Russian consortium, is under fire. Britain’s business secretary Lord Mandelson has advised that alternative agreements are sought to save the ailing GM-controlled car maker, calling for a "commercially-based outcome rather than one determined by political intervention and subsidies".…

BY SHABTAI GOLD

THE CREW over at Top Gear, the BBC petrol-lovers show, recently declared that the Switzerland part of the Alpine mountain range has some of the best roads in the world for driving. But they were in top sports cars, costing a fortune and hardly designed for bringing farmers’ produce to the supermarkets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SPECIAL marketing protection has been announced by the European Commission for three more traditional products: an Italian salami – ‘Ciauscolo’; a Spanish bread ‘Pan de Cruz de Ciudad Real’ and a Portuguese sweet potato – ‘Batata doce de Aljezur’.…

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 KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend Euro 100 million to Spanish airport operator Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea (AENA) to improve two Canary Islands airports. The money would meet half the projected costs of further planned expansion of Fuerteventura and Tenerife North airports.…