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FINLAND PAINT INDUSTRY FEATURE
BY DAVID HAWORTH
THE PAINT and coatings industry is a small but brightly shining star in the Finnish economy’s firmament, and one, which, as might be expected, has all the virtues of specialised Nordic industrial sectors.
These include a mature market, a great familiarity between manufacturers and customers in a society of little more than five million and harsh winter conditions, which dictate the high consumption of paints.…
EU STRIKES FISHING ACCESS DEALS WITH SÃO TOMÉ E PRINCIPE, MADAGASCAR: EU INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FISHING ROUND UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has initialled new fishing access deals with two African island nations: São Tomé e Principe, off west Africa, and Madagascar, in the Indian Ocean. The Madagascan deal will last six years from January 2007, and exclusively covers tuna.…
EASTERN EUROPE ELECTRICITY FEATURE -NUCLEAR POWER PHASE OUT CAPACITY REPLACEMENT
BY DEIRDRE MASON
A SIGNIFICANT boost in funding from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will speed the challenging switchover from ageing nuclear power stations in central and eastern Europe (CEE) to a cleaner, more efficient and more sustainable energy scene in these new and aspiring entrants to European Union (EU) membership.…
BELGIUM COMMERCIAL CRIME FEATURE - CORRUPTION
BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels
WHEN asked about corruption in Belgium by Commercial Crime International, a government official held his nose in the time-honoured gesture. But was he being fair? Some recent high profile cases have brought the nation some lurid publicity.…
EER REPORT RENEWABLE ENERGY - EUROPE ENERGY RESEARCH
BY ALAN OSBORN
European investment in renewable energy will exceed $60 billion by 2011, excluding large-scale hydroelectricity, predicts Emerging Energy Research (EER) a research and advisory company based in Spain and the United States. The firm says that the top 20 utilities have already set aside $13.3 billion for renewable energy ventures – "primarily onshore wind farms but also offshore wind, wave and tidal energy, solar, biomass and small-scale hydroelectric projects."…
MENA FATF MIDDLE EAST MONEY LAUNDERING REGIONAL ORGANISATION
BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut
OVER the last five years the Middle East and North Africa region has firmly joined the global effort to fight money laundering and terrorist financing by setting up national financial intelligence units and a regional watchdog, the Middle East and North Africa Financial Action Task Force (MENA-FATF).…
TRADITIONAL MEDICINES FEATURE TAIWAN SOUTHERN AFRICA
BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg, South Africa and DAVID HAWORTH, in Taiwan
TRADITIONAL health care systems do not always get a good press, being accused of incorporating superstition and poor medical practice. To some western public health advocates, they are akin to bringing back the leach.…
FIGEL INTERVIEW - EU UNIVERSITY STRATEGY NEWS PIECE
BY DAVID HAWORTH
PROPOSALS for sweeping improvements to modernise the European Union’s (EU) universities were published in a strategy document approved by the European Commission yesterday (Wed 10 May).
It attacks "rigidities and hindrances" in the continent’s tertiary education and calls for "immediate, in-depth and coordinated change": from the regulation and management of systems, to the governance of universities.…
DRINKS NANOTECHNOLOGY FEATURE
BY MARK ROWE
NANOTECHNOLOGY, though in its infancy, is already having an influential bearing on the international drinks market. According to a study by consultant Helmut Kaiser, latest available figures indicate that worldwide sales of nanotechnology products to the food and beverage packaging sector jumped to US$860 million (Euro 687.5 million) in 2004 from US$150 million (Euro 120 million) in 2002.…
EU ROUND UP - RUSSIA EU GAS SUPPLIES EU REGIONAL GAS REGULATION LIBERALISATION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
RUSSIA has sent another threat to Europe over gas supplies, undermining its reputation as a potential reliable energy partner for its western neighbours. Semyon Vainshtok, the president of Russia pipeline monopoly Transneft has told the daily newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta that Russia has "overfed Europe with crude".…