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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) is pushing signatories to its new Protocol on Water and Health to its Convention on Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes to agree detailed targets on improving European water quality.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BALTIC States are the European Union’s (EU) boom-region for research spending increases, according to the latest R&D figures from EU statistical agency Eurostat, which show Britain’s performance as relatively static. Annual average growth rates in real terms research spending from 2001 to 2005 ranged from +18% in Latvia, +17% in Estonia, and +11% in Lithuania, (+15% in Cyprus).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BALTIC States are the European Union’s (EU) boom-region for research spending increases, according to the latest R&D figures from EU statistical agency Eurostat, which show Britain’s performance as relatively static. Annual average growth rates in real terms research spending from 2001 to 2005 ranged from +18% in Latvia, +17% in Estonia, and +11% in Lithuania, (+15% in Cyprus).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is casting around for allies in central Asia and north Africa in its diplomatic tussle with Russia to secure cheap and reliable energy supplies. EU energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs has flown to Algeria to discuss closer energy ties with this major gas and oil producer.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is to release the European Union’s (EU) remaining 855,000 tonnes of intervention sugar stocks onto world markets. Buyers will be able to use available export refunds, with Brussels keen to exploit current market prices and avoid heavy storage expenses, which it wants ended after incoming reforms to the EU sugar market system.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

LATVIA has become the first European Union (EU) country to ban the sale of soft drinks, confectionary and potato crisps, in its state-run schools and nurseries. Strictly speaking, the health ministry prohibition covers all foods and drinks containing artificial additives including colourings, flavourings, preservatives, caffeine, and amino-acids sold in state schools.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

LATVIA has become the first European Union country banning sales of confectionary, including chewing gum, and potato crisps, in state-run schools and nurseries. The prohibition covers all foods and drinks containing artificial additives.

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BY KEITH NUTHALL

LATVIA has become the first European Union (EU) country to ban the sale of confectionary, including chewing gum, and potato crisps, in its state-run schools and nurseries. Strictly speaking, the health ministry prohibition covers all foods and drinks containing artificial additives including colourings, flavourings, preservatives, caffeine, and amino-acids sold in state schools.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRITAIN and other European Union (EU) countries which have yet to adopt the Euro are to be covered by a newly extended EU programme on fighting counterfeiting of Europe’s single currency. The EU Council of Ministers has approved a renewed ‘Pericles’ programme, which will spend Euro 1 million a year from 2007 to 2013.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

LATVIA has become the first European Union (EU) country to ban the sale of fizzy soft drinks, such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and 7-Up in its state-run schools and nurseries. Strictly speaking, the health ministry prohibition covers all drinks containing artificial additives including colourings, flavourings, preservatives, caffeine, and amino-acids sold in state schools.…