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This issue's round-up of EU news...

• PLANS FOR EURO-ARMY 'SHOW BLAIR IS DECEIVING BRITAIN': The German military high command wants to create a fully-fledged European army that would report to a European Union government and be financed by the European Parliament, documents obtained by the Tories show.
• EU AUDITORS BLAST BUDGET FAILINGS: The European Union is failing to keep track of huge annual subsidies, and 91 per cent of its budget is riddled with errors or cannot be verified.
• MARCH TO PROTEST THE EU CONSTITUTION: A march and rally planned for next year in protest of the proposed EU constitution.
• SWEDISH REBUFF COULD BE JUST THE BEGINNING OF AN ANTI-EU LANDSLIDE: Sweden's upset (on the Euro) may be only a foretaste of the next round of referendums starting next year on the new European constitution.
• BRUSSELS THREAT TO UK OIL WAS MISSED BY FOREIGN OFFICE: The Foreign Office missed the significance of a clause handing over the strategic prize of Britain's oil and gas reserves to Brussels, a senior Labour source said yesterday.
• BLANK SCREENS LOOM NEARER: It was revealed that all our large, coal - fired power stations are likely to be closed by the cost of complying with the EU's Large Combustion Plant directive.
• CLEVER FISH: Sir, Adam Nicholson well explains the advantages of managing a natural resource, fish, without the interference of the EU.
• EU PAYS £1M TO TRAIN ITALIAN
  SHOWGIRLS AT 'SCHOOL FOR BIMBOS': A "School for Soubrettes" that teaches young Italian women the not-so-subtle skills needed to become television games hostesses and showgirls has opened near Naples, backed by generous European Union funding.

...and the health news for this month

 

• DEADLY MEDICAL MISTAKES ARE NUMBER ONE US KILLER: The results of seven years of research reviewing thousands of studies conducted by the Nutrition Institute of America show for the first time that medical errors are the number one cause of death and injury in the United States.
• ASPARTAME DISEASE: Excerpted from 'The ABC's of Disease' by Phillip Day.
  
• GM CROPS FAIL KEY TRIALS AMID ENVIRONMENTAL FEAR: Two of the three GM crops grown experimentally in Britain, oil seed rape and sugar beet, appear more harmful to the environment than conventional crops and should not be grown in the UK, scientists are expected to tell the government next week.
• CELL PHONES: Experts investigating biological effects of cell phone radiation asked to shut up or quit jobs.
• MOBILE PHONE TOWER REGULATION SHOULD BE OBLIGATORY, NOT VOLUNTARY: The Australian Democrats today called for an urgent Government response to the new Dutch study that shows health effects from the radio signals from transmission towers for the next generation of mobile phone services.
• HOUSEHOLD CHORES CAN GIVE YOU ASTHMA: Doctors have added "cleaner's chest" to the long list of occupational diseases, including housemaid's knee and writer's cramp, because of new evidence that domestic cleaners have an increased risk of asthma.
• INTERNATIONAL FLUORIDE INFORMATION NETWORK: The latest in the battle on fluoride from Geelong Australia.
• MAILBAG: Letters from our readers about these and other subjects.
• YOU KNOW YOU'RE LIVING IN 2003 WHEN...A light-hearted look at a few of the familiar realities of modern life.