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STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED States and the European Union (EU) have launched a joint action programme to fight the counterfeiting of goods by international organised crime, an increasing problem for the pharmaceutical industry. Washington and Brussels say they will set up joint-border enforcement actions focusing on fighting intellectual piracy and establish teams of diplomats in third country embassies tasked with sharing data and intelligence on counterfeiting.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED States and the European Union (EU) have launched a joint action programme to fight the counterfeiting of goods by international organised crime, which remains an acute problem for the cigarette industry. Washington and Brussels say they will set up joint-border enforcement actions focusing on fighting intellectual piracy and establish teams of diplomats in third country embassies tasked with sharing data and intelligence on counterfeiting.…

BY MARK ROWE

THE ONLY public university in the would-be independent Balkan nation of Kosovo has finally elected a senate, a move that observers hope may ultimately help to diffuse ethnic tensions in the country’s higher education system.

The impasse over the composition of the University of Pristina senate was provoked by a political power struggle between the country’s leading parties, and was linked to Kosovo’s impending independence from Serbia.…

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."…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

WHEN the Soviet Union disintegrated, its vast military complex left stocks of toxic waste behind as it split or retreated to Russia. Now an Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) project is trying to turn part of this refuse of war into something useful: rocket fuel into fertliser.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

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WITH the approval in May of two key regulations covering respectively nutrition and health claims and the addition of vitamins and minerals to foods the EU has taken an important step forward in setting the legal framework for the food industry in Europe.…

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".…

BY MARK ROWE

THERE is no doubt that nanotechnology is having a huge bearing on thinking, research and production in the edible oils sector. The reason for this is clear enough: new developments could offer huge coast savings for companies, improve shelf life, taste and even offer health benefits.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NON-EUROPEAN Union (EU) nuclear operators do not have to ask the European Commission permission to export uranium enriched within the EU, a European Court of Justice (ECJ) advocate general has concluded. Miguel Poiares Maduro was advising on a complex legal case focusing on the control of Brazilian-owned uranium transferred from Europe to the United States.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

THE UNITED States’ Agricultural Research Service (ARS) has developed two new machines to improve cotton lint cleaning to help cotton ginners avoid losing good fibre during processing. Most cotton is currently processed with the same machine sequence, regardless of its specific needs, wasting good fibre.…