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BY MARK ROWE and KEITH NUTHALL

WITH the European Commission’s recent flurry of recalibrated environmental targets aiming to cut emissions in the European Union (EU) transport system by 50% by 2050 (34% in the aviation industry) – airports along with air navigation services will have a significant role to play.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE RUSSIAN government has agreed to scrap trade rules insisting that foreign auto manufacturers must make 350,000 vehicles annually in Russia to secure duty reductions on imported component inputs. Moscow made the concession to secure European Union (EU) backing for its accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) which was formally approved yesterday (Thursday) at a special WTO working party.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS and LEAH GERMAIN

A NEW metal structure 100 times lighter than Styrofoam and poised to revolutionise the aerospace and automotive industries has been developed in the US by a team of researchers from the California Institute of Technology, HRL Laboratories and the University of California Irvine.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE LEADING powers of the automotive industry worldwide have agreed to attempt forging common technical standards for the still evolving electric car sector. An agreement struck today (Thursday) in Geneva, Switzerland, will see the United States working with the European Union (EU) and Japan within two working parties: their goal is to write a formal global technical regulation (or regulations) on electric cars by 2014 and debate informal standardization.…

BY MARK ROWE and ZLATKO CONKAS

THE AMBITION of Serbia to join the European Union (EU) is proving problematic on a number of fronts, with the country’s control of money laundering a major hurdle. In February 2010, 50 people were arrested, suspected of using money laundering and tax evasion involving up to USD2.7 million.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

Venezuela’s so-called ‘autonomous’ public universities are claiming they will receive only a fraction of the state funding they require in 2012 under a new government budget, currently being finalised in the country’s national assembly. The universities claim they are being singled out because of their independence – they are public, but not under the control of President Hugo Chavez’ leftist government.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded research project has been using donated dead bodies, elaborately constructed dummies and complex computer research to create a digital model of the thorax (the upper body between the head and abdomen) to help build safer cars.…

BY ELENA SMIRNOVA and KEITH NUTHALL

Russia’s automobile manufacturing sector could by the end of this year face tougher competition from abroad, if the current plans to agree the country’s membership of the World Trade Organization (WTO) come to pass. The chair of the WTO working party charged with negotiating a complex agreement allowing Russia into the global trade body announced a timetable this summer that would see trade ministers approve Russian membership between December 15 and 17.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DOUBTS are growing about the wisdom of encouraging biofuel use in the European Union (EU) as a cornerstone of environmental policy aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The EU has painted itself into a corner with its renewable energy directive.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

EUROPEAN manufacturers are increasingly turning to developing countries for the precious metals and minerals needed to make mobile phones, computers, electric cars and more. However, a European Parliament vote backing a raw materials strategy that highlights the potentials of ‘urban mining’ might help create a more self-sufficient European mining industry.…