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BY KEITH NUTHALL

TURKEY energy minister Hilmi Guler has announced his country intends to build between three and five nuclear energy plants in the Mersin Akkuyu region on the Mediterranean, or in Sinop, on the Black Sea. He said Anakara was prepared to spend Euro 108 billion on the expansion, aiming to complete construction by 2020.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) competition commissioner has indicated she could push for regulatory reform to improve competition in EU energy markets, in parallel with legal enforcement action using existing rules. Neelie Kroes highlighted "bundling of generation, supply, pipelines, grids, and distribution (as) at the heart of the current EU energy market failure."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

RUSSIAN president Vladimir Putin has sought to shore up Russia’s damaged reputation as a reliable energy partner for eastern Europe, by suggesting Hungary take part in the Blue Stream gas pipeline project. In a visit to Budapest, Putin said Russia and Turkey were considering an extension of the Black Sea project "into south Europe, and our partners in that area have shown interests."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-research project is developing small-scale hydrogen generators, which could be operated by homes and businesses to refuel hydrogen-autos. The aim of the Hyvolution scheme is to create practical technology that could form part of a sustainable and widespread refuelling network, something that is essential for hydrogen fuel-cell transport to take off.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DEBATES are continuing in European Union (EU) institutions over whether general vaccination is a safe response to Europe’s growing bird flu problem. With Germany, France, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Greece, Switzerland, Slovenia, Italy all reporting new cases, the EU’s Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health has approved the first vaccination campaigns.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

INTERNATIONAL accounting firms have been asked to tender for contracts to audit external aid programmes managed by the European Commission, focusing on European Union (EU) membership applicants such as Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria. A maximum of three firms will be offered contracts from either of two ‘lots’ of work, one commanding annual budgets of Euro 1 million and the other Euro 2 million.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed opening 15 meat and livestock European Union (EU) annual import quotas for American products, including 16,665 tonnes of poultry meat. The move has been negotiated with Washington because of the EU’s incorporation in 2004 of 10 eastern and southern European countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission’s competition directorate general has said it will launch legal action against restrictive business practices and abuses of dominant positions in European Union (EU) gas markets. In a long awaited report, it promised to act against long-term downstream contracts and restricted access to capacity on gas pipelines, storage and inter-connectors between member states.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has suspended imports of de-boned and matured bovine meat from eight departments in the Argentine province of Corientes, due to an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). The disease has also recently been reported breaking out in Thrace, Turkey, and across Egypt.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NEW EFSA BOSS BUDGET ROW – LATEST ADVICE

THE FRENCHWOMAN appointed to take the vacant top executive director job at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) will need all her political skills to solve a potential budget crisis facing the agency.…