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BY KEITH NUTHALL

LATVIA has joined the growing alliance of eastern European countries taking the European Commission to the European Court of Justice (ECJ), challenging what they regard as miserly carbon allowances within the European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). Riga has joined Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Estonia in opposing their allocations by Brussels for emissions between 2008 and 2012.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MORE than a fifth of European Union (EU) motorists would not use their cars any less, even if dramatic improvements were made to local public transport systems, a European Commission-funded opinion poll has revealed. Conducted by pollsters Gallup amongst 25,767 people across the EU, the survey said 22% of those favouring cars over other transport means would remain loyal to their vehicles come what may.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

LARGE drinks companies such as Diageo will be able to continue making vodka from non-traditional ingredients such as grapes, without having to label their products vodka-style drinks, following a European Parliament vote today (Tuesday 19/6). Furthermore, proposals from the parliament’s environment committee that ingredients other than grain, potatoes or sugar beet molasses be listed on large labels, with lettering two-thirds as large as the word ‘Vodka’, were voted down.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) report has said that 101,335 deaths a year in Britain can be attributed to environmental problems, which could be reduced making them less deadly. Indeed, across Europe, the WHO says “well-tested environmental health interventions could reduce total deaths…by almost 20%.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
LARGE drinks companies such as Diageo will be able to continue making vodka from non-traditional ingredients such as grapes, without having to label their products vodka-style drinks, following a European Parliament vote today (Tuesday 19/6). Furthermore, proposals from the parliament’s environment committee that ingredients other than grain, potatoes or sugar beet molasses be listed on large labels, with lettering two-thirds as large as the word ‘Vodka’, were voted down.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s nuclear energy directorate has found a series of radiation protection procedure and capacity failings at Latvia’s Salaspils research nuclear reactor. During a general investigation of Latvia’s capacity to monitor and deal with radiation problems, the Commission has called for reforms at the reactor, although it did accept basic radioactivity monitoring and sampling facilities were in place.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS concerns increase about the security of the European Union’s (EU) supplies of oil and gas, the European Commission has put in place a network of security experts charged with monitoring threats to the EU’s energy flows and raising alarms if necessary.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Space Agency (ESA) is offering detailed snow melt data to countries surrounding the Baltic Sea, information that can aid hydrological modelling, flood forecasting and water resources management. ESA satellites are already providing snow melt data from Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, parts of western Russia and Belarus from the beginning of March until the end of May, and next year will also cover parts of Poland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission fined Poland was also fined Euro 7.7 million and the Czech Republic Euro 6.2 million for hoarding excess meat stocks ahead of joining the European Union (EU) in 2004, allowing them to flood European markets once tariff barriers were removed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced heavy fines against the Polish government (Euro 473,000) and Latvia (Euro 204,000) for the hoarding of excess wine stocks ahead of their countries joining the European Union (EU) in 2004. Accession deals for new member states always insist that new member countries do not import or produce excess supplies of drinks or food products ahead of joining the EU.…