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CYBERCRIMINALS POSE RISK TO ESSENTIAL ENERGY COMPANY COMPUTER NETWORKS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
LAST May, a coordinated attack on essential computer networks in the tiny Baltic republic of Estonia set nerves upon edge amongst European Internet security specialists. Following the removal of a Russian war memorial from the centre of its capital Tallinn, a still unidentified group of computer users bombarded Estonian political, government, media and banking websites with so much data, they were forced offline.…
EASTERN EUROPEANS TO CALL FOR EASIER CO2 TARGETS UNDER REVISED EU TRADING SCHEME
BY KEITH NUTHALL
HUNGARY, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania and Slovakia are to demand a revised European Union (EU) emissions trading scheme grant them (and fellow eastern Europeans) lower targets for reducing greenhouse gas pollution. In a joint proposal expected to be presented to EU ministers this week, they argue that eastern Europe has already significantly reduced the EU’s collective CO2 emissions, and should not be expected to continue making steep reductions from 2012 onwards.…
CYBERCRIMINALS POSE RISK TO ESSENTIAL UTILITY COMPUTER NETWORKS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
LAST May, a coordinated attack on essential computer networks in the tiny Baltic republic of Estonia set nerves upon edge amongst European Internet security specialists. Following the removal of a Russian war memorial from the centre of its capital Tallinn, a still unidentified group of computer users bombarded Estonian political, government, media and banking websites with so much data, they were forced offline.…
EUROPEAN COMMISSION APPROVES SCANDINAVIAN TOBACCO FIRM TAKEOVER BY BAT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PLANNED acquisition by British American Tobacco (BAT) of certain roll-you-own tobacco and snus sections of Denmark’s Skandinavisk Tobakskompagni (STK) has been approved by the European Commission. To secure this agreement, BAT had to promise selling-off certain brands in Norway (notably Petterøe’s and Tiedemanns Rød), where the expanded company would have had a dominant position.…
SOMETIMES WHATEVER THE POLLUTION, A DROP OF SUNSHINE OR OLIVE OIL KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ENVIRONMENTAL health officers think they are helping keep people fit and well by reducing pollution and food disease. But maybe the best move the cold, rheumatism and asthma sufferers of Britain can make to be healthy is emigrate to a Greek island, sunbathe (moderately) and eat fish, vegetables and olive oil.…
SMALLER EASTERN EUROPE COUNTRIES PREPARED TO CLUB TOGETHER TO ASSURE THEIR NUCLEAR FUTURES
BY MARK ROWE
NUCLEAR energy production costs a lot of money and so it makes some economic sense for smaller countries interested in this climate-change friendly power supply to combine forces on major projects. So it is in eastern Europe, where in February 2007, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Poland provisionally agreed to build a new nuclear plant at Lithuania’s existing Ignalina site, initially with 3,200 MWe.…
ROAD TRANSPORT HAS BOOMED IN 10 NEW EASTERN AND SOUTHERN EUROPE EU MEMBER STATES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ROAD transport has been booming in the 10 eastern and southern European countries joining the European Union (EU) in 2004. Between 1995 and 2005, traffic volumes increased by 400%, compared to 16% in longer established EU member states such as Britain, a consultants report written for the European Commission has claimed.…
LATVIA, GREECE THREATENED WITH ECJ CASES OVER ENERGY EFFICIENCY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally threatened Greece and Latvia with legal action at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for failing to publish national energy efficiency action plans as required by the European Union (EU) energy services directive.…
GLOBAL - UN-sponsored responsible business education initiative takes off
By Keith Nuthall
A UNITED Nations-sponsored global initiative to encourage business schools to teach and promote social and environmentally responsible commercial practices has gathered a critical mass of support. More than 100 business schools worldwide have now signed up to the Principles for Responsible Management Initiative.…
GLOBAL - Universities offer commercially valuable research to businesses worldwide - new projects
By Keith Nuthall and Monica Dobie
Universities and colleges are constantly working with business and industry to undertake commercially valuable research. University World News here again features a selection of these cutting edge developments in its business pages.
*The University of Latvia’s Institute of Polymer Mechanics Eureka has helped create construction bricks with domestic waste polymers usually considered too varied or dirty to be recycled.…