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BULGARIA POWER PLANT



BY KEITH NUTHALL
BULGARIA has announced it will build a second nuclear power plant to replace the outdated Kozloduy power station, which the European Union (EU) insists should be closed by 2006. Construction will take place at Belene, in northern Bulgaria where work started on building a 1,000-megawatt plant in 1987, but ceased in 1991 following environmental campaigns.…

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EASTERN EUROPE WORKERS



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has codified and publicised the often complex set of rules controlling the migration of eastern and southern European workers from the 10 countries joining the EU on May 1. These transitional rules designed to ease the impact of their accession on the EU’s 15 established member states, have been posed online at the European Job Mobility Portal http://europa.eu.int/eures.…

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ENLARGEMENT - BYRNE



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE 10 EASTERN and southern European countries joining the EU on May 1 are “on course” to meeting its food health standards, Brussels’ health and consumer protection Commissioner David Byrne has claimed. This masked problems however: temporary exemptions have given the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia between an additional three months and three years to ensure milk producers, slaughterhouses and food processing plants meet standards that should already have been in place.…

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EU ROUND UP



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is bankrolling the development of Kazakhstan’s oil and gas reserves, a key alternative supply for the European Union (EU). It wants to lend Tasbulat Ltd Euro 60 million to help develop three medium-sized oil and gas fields in Mangistau region, western Kazakhstan, producing up to 8,000 barrels/day in 2006; Tasbulat is owned by SNP Petrom, Romania’s national oil company.…

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EASTERN ENERGY TAXATION



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EASTERN and southern European countries who joined the European Union (EU) on May 1 have been granted requested stays of execution over the implementation of common EU minimum rates for solid fuel energy taxation. The EU Council of Ministers fears sharp increases would damage these new members’ energy markets.…

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EBRD - RUSSIAN BAUXITE



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is expected next month to rubber stamp plans to lend two Russian SUAL group companies US$75 million to expand production at a bauxite mine and begin work on developing a related alumina refinery and aluminium smelter.…

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EBRD - RUSSIAN BAUXITE



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is expected next month to rubber stamp plans to lend two Russian SUAL group companies US$75 million to expand production at a bauxite mine and begin work on developing a related alumina refinery and aluminium smelter.…

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EASTERN ENERGY TAXATION



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EASTERN and southern European countries who have now joined the European Union (EU) have been granted requested stays of execution over the implementation of common rules on energy taxation that were agreed last year for the old EU.…

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ENLARGEMENT - BYRNE



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE 10 EASTERN and southern European countries joining the European Union (EU) last weekend are “on course” to meeting its food health standards, Brussels’ health and consumer protection Commissioner David Byrne has claimed. His confident declaration masks some problems however, leading to temporary exemptions, giving the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia between an additional three months and three years to ensure milk producers, slaughterhouses and food processing plants meet standards that should have been in place on May 1.…

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EUROSTAT ACCIDENT STATS



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE TRADES Union Congress (TUC) has called on the British government to spend more on the Heath and Safety Executive and local government workplace inspectors, following the release of a report from EU statistical agency Eurostat showing Britain suffering increasing rates of serious work accidents.…

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