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By Alan Osborn

The European Court of Justice has found that Spain broke EU regulations by failing to withdraw a number of conditions it had imposed on the acquisition of the Spanish energy company Endesa by the German company E.ON which was launched in February 2006.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE SLOVENIAN government has tabled compromise proposals to break the current political logjam at the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers over gas supply unbundling. As current EU president, Slovenia has suggested for instance that some joint ownership of energy producing and transmission utilities could occur if there were "additional safeguards" preventing conflicts of interest, and guaranteeing the "structural independence of decision making" by distribution operators.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) research network Eureka has helped create bricks with domestic waste polymers usually considered too varied or dirty to be recycled. It has worked with the Latvian Technological Centre; the Institute of Polymer Mechanics, the University of Latvia; and Spanish company Hormigones Uniland to mix waste polymers with other materials to make construction products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A COMPREHENSIVE raft of new legislation designed to force the European Union (EU) into further reducing its greenhouse gas emissions has been tabled by the European Commission. As expected, it has proposed targets that biofuels command 10% of the EU’s liquid fuel consumption by 2020.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has declared illegal under European Union (EU) law Spanish regulations that limit the voting rights of publicly-owned organisations on energy utilities in Spain. These rules have been criticised by the European Commission for preventing potential takeovers by foreign companies.…

BY FIDELMA COOK, PAUL COCHRANE and KEITH NUTHALL

SONATRACH, Algeria’s national oil and gas company, has made no secret to its determination to strengthen its position in Europe, which already accounts for around 60% of Algeria’s export earnings….the bulk of which is in gas.…

BY RACHEL JONES, in Caracas

AS one of South America’s largest economies and the world’s leading

exporter of soy and sunflower oil, Argentina experienced a GDP growth rate

of 8.4 percent in 2006 and 7.9 percent a year earlier, according to the US

Energy and Information Administration.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

WOMEN use cigarettes to relieve stress as an appetite suppressant and to facilitate social and sexual interaction with men, a study from the University of Granada, Spain, has concluded. Researchers examined the reasons for the increased rate of women smokers in the last 50 years in Spanish society.…

BY LUCY JONES, in Dallas; ALAN OSBORN, in London; KARRYN CARTELLE, in Tokyo; BILL CORCORAN, in Johannesburg; PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut; RACHEL JONES, in Caracas; MARK ROWE; and KEITH NUTHALL

WITH the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round being slow to proceed since its 2001 launch – and only this year approaching something resembling and end game – free traders wanting to encourage global commerce have looked to bilateral and regional trade deals.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) official coordinator for promoting the development of a high voltage connection between France and Spain has outlined four questions about the project that he wants answered by June. Mario Monti, a former EU competition commissioner, has said in a report that a continued failure by the French and Spanish governments to provide firm answers has long delayed this key capacity project.…