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GREECE/TURKEY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FINAL details of an agreement to install an interconnector linking the gas networks of Greece and Turkey – historically hostile enemies – have been struck, a move welcomed by the European Commission. The deal involves a Euro 250 million, 285 kilometre, gas pipeline being built between Komotini in Greek Thrace, with Karacabey, in Turkey, near Istanbul, through cooperation between Greek Natural Gas Company (DEPA) and Turkish gas company BOTAS.…
MED COOPERATION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) energy Commissioner Loyola de Palacio has called for a redoubling of efforts to create gas networks linking European, north African and Levantine countries. Speaking to a Euro-Mediterranean ministerial conference, in Rome, de Palacio highlighted the available resources of natural gas in the EU’s Mediterranean neighbours and called for cross-border infrastructure to be improved.…
SRI LANKA POULTRY
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE SRI Lankan government is wrongly promoting the consumption of poultry as an alternative to red meat in the diet of its citizens, according to a report from the Olcott Gunasekera of Dharmavijaya Centre for Promotion of Healthy Living in Sri Lanka.…
TURKEY MUSEUM
BY MARK ROWE
A TURKISH museum that recalls the pioneering mental health care of the middle ages has been awarded the Council of Europe’s museum prize for 2004. The Museum of Health Care in Edirne was praised by the judges for its “successful and exemplary approach to the psychologically sensitive theme of mental disorder”.…
IFC - PIPELINE LOAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank’s International Finance Corporation is to lend US$250 million to help build the key Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline that will carry EU-bound oil and gas into Turkey from the Caspian basin. The financing is a small part of the overall US$3.2 billion price tag.…
UN CRIME CONVENTIONS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations (UN) has framed a new anti-corruption convention and its established convention against organised crime is now coming into force. Keith Nuthall examines what this will mean for businesses, banks and governments.
THE COMMERCIAL world is often doubtful about the value of international conventions fighting crime, but their texts do at least reflect a global consensus amongst concerned governments.…
SRI LANKA POULTRY
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE SRI Lankan government is wrongly promoting the consumption of poultry as an alternative to red meat in the diet of its citizens, according to a report from the Olcott Gunasekera of Dharmavijaya Centre for Promotion of Healthy Living in Sri Lanka.…
BANNED SHIPS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BANS have been slapped on 10 ships from entering any European Union port because of concerns they are poorly maintained safety risks, potentially spilling pollution into Europe’s seas. The ships (seven bulk carriers, one chemical tanker and one oil tanker) are from Cambodia, Cyprus, Honduras, the Lebanon, Panama, St Vincent and the Grenadines and Turkey.…
GRAVY POP
BY PHILIP FINE
AMERICAN Thanksgiving is this Thursday (27 Nov) so US specialty soft drinks maker Jones Soda Co has introduced Turkey & Gravy-flavoured soda. The tan-coloured fizzy drink may taste like Thanksgiving but contains no meat extracts. An initial batch sold out in three hours on the website (http://www.jonessoda.com)…
WWF REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
POLITICAL pressure applied by the European Union (EU) on its Member States to improve the environmental performance of their water sectors is failing to achieve the desired results, according to a report from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).…