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What REACH costs you

In front | ANALYSIS
30, 000 'green' bottles sitting on the wall (Photo: G0DA/ Flickr)

The new European regulation on chemical substances is here, both for industries and animals. But research does not get the last word

by Luca Caridà // 21/02/07

INTERVIEW
Sacconi success (Photo: European parliament/ PNO)

Guido Sacconi: 'Industrialists: enough with propaganda!'

Italian MEP and REACH Rapporteur Guido Sacconi on the long haul for the regulation on chemical substances

by Alessandro Grimaldi // 21/02/07

PANORAMA

Within our REACH?

The EU's chemical regulation - at a glance

by Nabeelah Shabbir // 20/02/07

FOCUS
Go East (Photo: Kroz/ Flickr)

Eastern ski resorts take centre piste

Longer hours of daylight, groomed slopes, cheap fares and a chance to explore über-foreign cuisine and culture. More and more are taking to Slovenian, Bulgarian, Czech and Bosnian slopes

by Rami Abdelrahman // 15/02/07

ANALYSIS
Sights of the future (Photo: Hub/ Flickr)

'No snow'

Winter is becoming disturbingly mild, humid and snow-less, a fact which is making the ski industry sweat

by Grégory Mounier // 15/02/07

OPINION
A song for German car manufacturers: Günter Verheugen points it out to Angela Merkel (Photo: EU Commission)

Cars before climate

Car manufacturers will have to reduce petrol consumption in all new vehicles, say the European Commission. Yet Angela Merkel wants to defend the interests of the German car industry

by Martin Schneider // 08/02/07

ANALYSIS
Make or break time in Brussels (Photo: John Wartrell/ Flickr)

Online outlaws

10 million online gamblers, 2, 000 websites: the online gaming community is ever-expanding, becoming a huge phenomenon in Europe. But in legal speak, things are far from harmonised

by Stéphane Pocidalo // 29/01/07

Say no to cellulose factories; a protest in Gualeguaychú, in Argentina (Photo: Pablo Flores/ Flickr)

Paper mills of discord along the Uruguay River

By building pulp mills, Finnish global corporation Botnia 'is willing to export pollution' along the binational stream, Argentina claims. Their announcements of further highway blockades is disrupting trade and travel

by Antonio Graziano // 23/01/07

PANORAMA

Eastern property boom excludes the young

The wave of home acquisitions is pushing property prices up in Eastern Europe. Young people find it difficult to buy their first home

by Natalia Sosin // 25/09/06

OPINION
China becomes an export powerhouse (Derek T Green Flickr)

Europe meets Asia: reviving the Silk Road

As trade flourishes between the EU and Asia and regional integration accelerates, the Asian highway opens new routes to the East

by Clea Caulcutt // 05/09/06

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