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The Arbitration Panel for Stolen Goods from the Nazi Era will issue binding decisions and "better address the cases still open today", a government statement said.

He said he would only agree to the scheme at a crunch EU leaders' summit on December 18 if binding guarantees "are delivered and signed by member states at the time of decision".

An adduct is a bulky chemical attachment that forms when a compound, such as a carcinogen, binds directly to DNA.

Analysts said the agreement, while not legally binding, would send a signal to companies and investors that Canada is open to development in the energy sector.

"And spermine is, so to speak, the binding agent that brings the strands together. There are only weakly attractive electrical forces between the molecules, and these organise them but do not firmly bind them together."