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As the start of the New Year of 2007 we bravely welcome the new member of the European Union, the new members this year oar Romania and Bulgaria. As my wife is from Romania I have a unique insight into the hopes and fears of there country.

For many Romanians this will be a time for celebration and a final dismissal of the past and its very ruthless control by Nicolae Ceausescu (1918-1989). Although responsible for building one of the largest buildings on this planet was an overall bad guy and many here celebrated his departure from this world.

The capitol Bucharest was lit up with fireworks and I felt a real hope standing with these people and enjoying there celebrations. This granting of the new European state will bring many new things to the Romanians and hopefully a little more prosperity to a country that I found is very beautiful and unique.

I have visited various parts of Romania many times the mountainous region of Brasov is stunning in the winter and is excellent skiing and hotels. There are also the magnificent castle two of which are Peles Castle in Sinaia and Bran castle famously known as Dracula's castle in Transylvania.

These two places are well worth a visit to this country alone if you are visiting in the summer then the town of Constanta on the Black sea is an very relaxing summer vacation spot.

Romania will attract a lot of foreign investment with the next few years as it has been identified as a country where house prices are set to do very well over the next ten years and there will be good investment opportunities to be had in this country providing the investors are cautious and complete some good ground work.

The people I have found have been very open and friendly and I have always enjoyed my visits to the place. I think the changes in the EU will help them re structure the city and help to improve the state of buildings with new regulations imposed for buildings requirements should improve infrastructure.

Hopefully the EU membership will give the economy a boost and stability for 2007 I hope that having both a home in the UK and Romania will bring good returns on my investment on a very different country but a nice one and friendly.

Traffic is probably the largest problem that Bucharest faces how ever the introduction of new speed cameras on the way to Brasov is part of technology from the west that I would have preferred not to have seen in the country yet.

At the moment the house prices and flats within the Bucharest are a reasonable investment and people wishing to get information on this really need to know a local source and see the places and imagine how this place will be in ten years.

Bucharest is known as little Paris and has an Arch similar to the one in Paris as well as many tree lined boulevards and I can see this place turning into a very pleasant part of Europe to settle down in.

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? Andy Bolton 2007

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In June 2007, the controversial new REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals) law came into effect in the European Union. Taking seven years and 1,000 pages to pass, REACH is the most complex law in EU history.

Aiming to protect consumers and the environment from harmful and unsafe chemicals, the law requires manufacturers to ensure that over 30,000 chemicals have been tested and reviewed by the newly created European Chemicals Agency (EChA). For 1,500 high risk substances, manufacturers will have to prove "adequate control." The EChA will ban ingredients posing a significant threat and ensure that cosmetic and other companies use alternatives.

The law also advocates using alternatives to animal testing, so that data on toxicity to humans is obtained using means other than experiments on vertebrate animals. Since the passage of REACH, L'Oreal has announced that it will conduct safety tests on human skin cells and tissue from animals slaughtered for food, rather than live animals, to collect the new information required by the law.

REACH replaces 40 separate chemicals laws in the EU. It also extends prior cosmetics laws that were based upon risk assessment and responds to ongoing calls from the scientific community for bans on confirmed and likely carcinogenic, mutagenic and reprotoxic substances in cosmetic products.

Although there was little existing safety information on 99% of the man thousands of chemicals developed in the EU before 1981, the EU had banned several dangerous chemicals that remain legal in the United States, including phthalates in cosmetics.

REACH is expected to put more pressure on law makers in the United States to impose tougher controls on the usage of toxic chemicals, since under the country’s Toxic Substances Control Act, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has little legal authority to ban or restrict chemicals in use before 1976 because it must first prove they pose "an unreasonable risk."

It should be noted, however, that there are several shortcomings to the new European law. First, manufacturers have 11 years to register product ingredients, leaving more than a decade until all the ingredients in cosmetics products will be fully disclosed. Also, if a product was manufactured outside the EU and imported, it is not regulated under REACH.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently analyzed antioxidant levels in more than 100 different foods. It found that cranberries, blueberries, and blackberries contain the highest amounts of antioxidant among fruits; beans, artichokes, and russet potatoes lead among the vegetables while pecans, walnuts, and hazelnuts have the most antioxidants in the nut category. Other good sources of antioxidants include pomegranates, prunes, raspberries, strawberries, apples, cherries and plums.

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