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BY KEITH NUTHALL and ALAN OSBORN
THE FREIGHT Transport Association has called on continental European Union Member States to make use of new powers to screen the qualifications and experience non-EU lorry drivers, weeding out competing companies who may employ cheap unskilled labour from eastern Europe and Turkey.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CEDARS are elegant ornamental and timber evergreen conifers of the genus Cedrus (family Pinaceae); three are native to Mediterranean mountains and one to the western Himalayas. Cedrus libani, the Lebanon’s native species is also found in the Taurus Mountains, Syria and southern and northern Turkey.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FORMER enemies – Greece and Turkey – have agreed to build a Euro 250 million, 285 kilometre, gas pipeline between Komotini in Greek Thrace, with Karacabey, in Turkey, near Istanbul. The European Commission views the initiative as a key link carrying central Asian natural gas into the European Union.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROGAS and the European Commission have welcomed a deal between two of Europe’s historic enemies – Greece and Turkey – to bury the hatchet and build a Euro 250 million, 285 kilometre, gas pipeline between Komotini in Greek Thrace, with Karacabey, in Turkey, near Istanbul.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is talking closely to concerned environmental groups before agreeing to release US$300 million to build the planned key Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil and gas pipeline from the Caspian Sea to Turkey’s Mediterranean coast.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CITIZENS of eastern and southern European countries seeking to join the European Union (EU) consider improvements to the safety of the food they eat to be the top priority of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy. Of those polled by the Eurobarometer organisation, 88 per cent cited food safety as their top priority for the CAP, rather than improving the income of their local farmers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ESTABLISHMENT of special anti-fraud coordinators in all eastern and southern European countries applying to join the European Union (EU) has been welcomed by OLAF, the EU’s anti-fraud office.

In a memorandum on the fight against fraud in an enlarged EU, OLAF said: “By putting Anti Fraud Co-ordinating Service offices in place, the candidate countries have demonstrated in concrete terms their commitment to fighting fraud.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of certain flat rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel, of a width of 600 mm or more from Egypt, (mostly 29.2 per cent), Slovakia, (18.6 per cent) and Turkey, (11.5 per cent).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank is leading an aid deal to encourage local companies to maintain and manage pipelines sending natural gas and oil from central Asia to the European Union. The IFC, (which is initially injecting US$250,000), BP, Norway’s Statoil, GTZ, (the German aid agency), and the Baku Enterprise Centre, Azerbaijan, will launch a programme to help local businesses benefit from petro- projects, notably the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline to Turkey.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation of the World Bank is heading up a groundbreaking aid deal that will try to foster key local companies who will be responsible for maintaining and managing piplelines sending natural gas and oil from central Asia to the European Union.…