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These cars emit more than all the microwaves in the EU.

This is 10 times the amount this new microwave oven study estimates for annual emissions for all the microwave ovens in the EU.

This is pushing sales of new microwaves which are expected to reach 135 million annually in the EU by the end of the decade.

This will buy the EU time, but it will not solve the bloc's larger problem.

International organisations such as the OECD and the EU issue regular reports.

70 a week, one of the least generous in the EU.

As well as those chronic problems, the EU face an acute crisis in its economic core, the 16 countries that use the single currency.

Instead, the claimant receives a time-limited "allowance", conditional on actively seeking a job; no entitlement and no insurance, at ￡71.70 a week, one of the least generous in the EU.

It insists that economic co-ordination should involve all 27 members of the EU club, among whom there is a small majority for free-market liberalism and economic rigour; in the inner core alone, Germany fears, a small majority favour French interference.

It is too soon to write off the EU.

These might include threats to freeze EU funds for poorer regions and EU mega-projects and even the suspension of a country's voting rights in EU ministerial councils.