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Behing the scenes of the EU #39;s Emergency Response Coordination Centre
Filmed during major floods across Europe in Summer 2013, take a look inside the EU #39;s Emergency Response Coordination Centre to see what it regularly does: monitoring disasters, producing maps...

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Behing the scenes of the EU's Emergency Response Coordination Centre - Video

Nick Clegg Lying about EU Military
Nick Clegg lying about the European Union wanting a military. Don #39;t listen to Nick Clegg #39;s lies and vote UKIP May 22nd 2014 in the European Elections and Local Elections!! The EU has it #39;s own...

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Nick Clegg Lying about EU Military - Video

Brussels: The European Union's (EU) executive yesterday proposed to ban all use of drift nets in EU waters and on its vessels by year's end to better enforce the protection of dolphins, sharks, swordfish and bluefin tuna.

Drift nets stretching for miles close to the surface have often been responsible for the incidental capture and killing of thousands of marine animals that are important to the ecosystem. They were also responsible for indiscriminate fishing that often resulted in huge by-caches with little commercial value.

Often they were called the "walls of death" since they trapped and killed anything within nets that could measure dozens of kilometres.

"Fishing with drift nets destroys marine habitats, endangers marine wildlife and threatens sustainable fisheries," said EU Fisheries Commissioner Maria Damanaki.

These type of nets were previously used in the hunt for endangered bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean until the EU banned such fishing in 2002. Even if laws already restricted its use, drift net fishing often continued illegally and a total ban on drift nets would make catching cheats easier. The EU courts had to take action against Italy and France half a decade ago to stop such practices.

The proposal now goes to the EU's 28 member states for approval.

"We need to close any possible loopholes and simplify control and enforcement. The ban sends out a clear message that we no longer tolerate any irresponsible practices," said Damanaki.

The Pew Charitable Trusts said that yesterday's proposal showed the EU's "willingness to crack down on the illegal fishing of bluefin tuna."

Over the past years the EU has stepped up its efforts to clamp down on any kind of illegal fishing and on commercial fishing which depleted the Atlantic and Mediterranean oceans off its borders.

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European Union Wants Ban on Drift Nets to Save Dolphins, Tuna

Britain's membership of the European Union is "crucial" to London's future success, and an exit from the political bloc will hit the UK's competitiveness and jobs, a major business group has warned.

A new report for London First said that the UK could not take an "a la carte" approach to being in the European Union and rubbished suggestions that Britain could remain a member while picking and choosing parts of the EU package.

The report comes as investment managers warned about the impact to the UK's tax revenue if Britons vote to leave the European Union in the referendum promised by prime minister David Cameron for 2017.

London First's report was drawn up by a panel of business leaders including HSBC chief executive Alan Keir, Barclays vice-chairman Cyrus Ardalan, the chairman of law firm Linklaters Robert Elliott and Nomura vice-chairman Sir Andrew Cahn.

The London and the EU report found that the business community in the capital is "committed to remaining within the EU, in large part because of the economic benefits of the Single Market, and sees great opportunities for Britain to lead a deepening of that market to drive jobs and growth across the country".

Unlike New York and Hong Kong, London does not have a large domestic market, meaning that being at the heart of the European single market is "a crucial part of its success", it said.

"Business wants the UK government to take a more engaged role within the EU, in order to drive economic growth and competitiveness, and champion the Single Market," said the report.

Breaking down barriers to the free movement of services was key to London's future development and most likely to happen if the UK was part of the EU.

"The opportunity for London, and British, business is not to threaten exit, but to drive the completion of the Single Market in services and make EU membership work even better in the UK's interests, while vigorously implementing a programme to mitigate adverse social and income distribution effects that undermine the success of the whole," said the report.

"Realising the benefits of the Single Market means accepting its framework as a package: the four freedoms are not 'a la carte'; states cannot pick and choose which best suit their interests as the freedoms work together to create an internal market.

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EU Membership 'Crucial' To UK Success, Say Business Leaders

European Union carbon permits fell the most in almost three weeks in London after the market regulator said yesterday a surplus of the emission allowances expanded last year.

Permits for December dropped 6.8 percent, the most since April 25, to 4.81 euros ($6.60) a metric ton at 4:40 p.m. in London on the ICE Futures Europe exchange. The contract slid as much as 8.5 percent earlier today. The allowances dropped for a third consecutive year in 2013.

The glut swelled to more than 2.1 billion tons by the end of 2013 from almost 2 billion tons a year earlier, the European Commission, the EUs executive arm, said yesterday. That exceeds the 1.9 billion tons emitted in all of 2013 by factories and power stations covered by the market, according to EU data published today.

Theres going to be more downward pressure on the market, as the surplus is sold or given away, said Trevor Sikorski, an analyst in London at Energy Aspects Ltd. Sales of allowances by traders to close out bets on gains probably worsened todays decline, he said by phone.

Falling natural gas prices are enticing some utilities to switch to the cleaner-burning fuel from coal, cutting demand for carbon permits, Sikorski said. The within-day U.K. natural gas contract dropped as much as 2.6 percent today and is down 32 percent this year, broker data compiled by Bloomberg show.

Youre getting more gas in the mix, especially in the U.K., Sikorski said.

The EUs 28 member states are divided three ways on fixing 2030 climate and energy rules, Greek Environment Minister Yiannis Maniatis said yesterday. Some countries approve the commissions Jan. 22 proposal to reduce emissions by 40 percent from 1990 levels, others have reservations about that plan and a third group wants more ambitious policies, he said.

Trading in the December contract jumped 43 percent today to 32.6 million tons, the highest for almost three weeks. Volume of call options cleared on ICE jumped to 2.9 million tons, also the highest since April 25, from 1 million tons yesterday.

To contact the reporter on this story: Mathew Carr in London at m.carr@bloomberg.net

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Lars Paulsson at lpaulsson@bloomberg.net Claudia Carpenter, Dan Weeks

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