BASF hopes for green light from EU on GM potato this year
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German chemicals giant BASF is hoping to receive the green light from the European regulatory authorities for a genetically modified potato this year, a top executive said in a newspaper interview published Monday.
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Thousands of General Motors workers across Europe waited for a verdict Thursday on how the world's largest automaker would shake up its money-losing Opel, Saab and Vauxhall operations, with costly plants in Germany considered prime targets for possible job cuts.
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Britain's farm and environment ministry  said on Friday it had given the go-ahead for research trials on  disease resistant genetically modified potatoes.
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Pilot program for the last judgement? The European Union has pledged to make life easier for both farmers and putative messiahs by ensuring that goats and sheep will in future be identified electronically.â¦
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The government allows genetically-modified potato trials in a bid to fight blight.
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European Union governments should work together in deciding rules for using biotech foods, rather than forge their own policies and risk inviting legal action against the 27-member bloc, the EU trade chief said Thursday.
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General Motors GM.N is seriously   considering boosting car exports from Europe, including to its   key U.S. market, to help boost productivity at its European   sites, a senior GM executive said on Thursday.
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The Agriculture Department has given a preliminary green light for the first commercial production of a food crop engineered to contain human genes, reigniting fears that biomedically potent substances in high-tech plants could escape and turn up in other foods.
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BASF, the world's biggest chemicals maker, expressed confidence on Thursday for the 2007 business year after the booming economy and acquisitions enabled it to notch up better-than-expected results last year.
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Germany's MAN AG is preparing a more  attractive offer for Sweden's Scania (SCVb.ST), the Wall Street  Journal on Friday quoted MAN  Chief Executive Hakan  Samuelsson as saying.
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Germany's MAN AG is preparing a more   attractive offer for Sweden's Scania SCVb.ST, the Wall Street   Journal on Friday quoted MAN MANG.DE Chief Executive Hakan   Samuelsson as saying.
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Europeâs farmers are beginning to grow crops that can be turned into fuels meant to produce fewer emissions than gas or oil.
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European consumers may be at risk from  unauthorized genetically modified (GMO) rice grown in China  after a biotech strain was found in products sold in three EU  countries, two leading environment groups said on Tuesday.
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England's BioTruck team aims to promote greener alternatives to fuels like ethanol.
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General Motors is currently examining the possibility of combining two of its European plants into a single operation.
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General Motors Corp., the world's biggest automaker. has pledged to avoid plant closures and layoffs in Europe as it seeks to return its European operations to profitability, worker representatives said Wednesday.
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The US urges the European Union to speed up its process for approving new genetically modified (GM) products.