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BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

WITH a vivid metallic facade of mirror-like copper plates and Hindi ‘Mudr?’ hand sculptures at the arrival lounge of the brand new terminal building, the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI) in New Delhi is acclaimed by its developers as "the gateway to modern India."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is funding a Euro EUR9.88 million research project to boost the performance of hybrid cars made in Europe and lower the cost of their manufacture. This ‘Hi-CEPS’ study involves Fiat, Ford Europe and Peugeot-Citroën. One of its tasks is preventing the common hybrid bug of air conditioning shutdowns once the engine stops.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH,PAUL RIGG,LEE ADENDOORF,MAKKI MARSEILLES,E BLAKE BERRY,FLORENCE LABEDAYS,SYMON ROSS and KEITH NUTHALL

WATER utilities are maybe used to getting bad press. After all, we all need water, and we need and want it to be clean. When a water supplier fails, it is easy to make complaints and see them amplified in newspapers, television, radio and the Internet.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

CORRUPTION, bribery and cronyism have long been a part of business in the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, with media reports of such malpractice few and far between yet alone prosecutions. But this taboo topic has started to hit headlines in the Gulf over the past year as prominent businessmen have been arrested for fraud, bribery cases investigated and governmental units set up to tackle the problem.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD, ALAN OSBORN and KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN automakers will be looking to boost exports to the Mercosur countries of South America, if they strike a trade deal with the European Union (EU). A resumption of negotiations on slashing tariffs for goods traded between the EU’s 27 member countries and the four-country Mercosur block, (Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay), has been announced by the European Commission, the EU’s executive.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE FLEET and vehicle leasing sector can be happy about the release last week (May 27) by the European Commission of new rules on how the various elements of the European Union (EU) auto sector should compete.

This regulation granting a ‘block exemption’ from general EU laws on competition, which usually ban formal collusion between manufacturers, retailers, repairers and customers, should reduce prices of purchases and repairs, while protecting leasing companies from having to yield their customer databases.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, FLORENCE LABEDAYS, KARRYN MILLER and KEITH NUTHALL

DESPITE the slow progress to replace the Kyoto Protocol, auto manufacturers are well aware that they will come under increasing pressure to reduce the CO2 emissions of their models and their manufacturing process.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

PUBLIC research funding is a key component of the auto sector’s drive to reduce CO2 emissions. On the public side, the European Union’s (EU) seventh framework programme (FP7) funds innovation in a wide range of industries, and automotive research figures prominently.…

BY ALYSHAH HASHAM and KEITH NUTHALL

A NEW report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has underlined the enormous disparities in stocks of metals used in rich and poor countries.

The report ‘Metals in Society’ examines the amount of individual metals present in society, and the potential for using the in-use stock to offset demand from virgin metal stocks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE RELEASE today (May 27) by the European Commission of new binding rules on how the various elements of the European Union (EU) auto sector should compete has been welcomed by the industry. Why? Because – largely – automakers, sellers and repairers got what they wanted.…