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USA, CHINA, STRIKE ANTI-SUBSIDY DEAL ON CHINESE 'MAJOR BRANDS' DISPUTE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States is claiming victory in a trade dispute with China, after Beijing announced it would scrap subsidies for products including body lotion, liquid detergent, soap and fancy soap. Washington had argued these China-christened ‘famous brands’ handouts were export subsidies banned by the World Trade Organisation (WTO).…
EUROPOL GIVES INSIGHT INTO CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGICAL AND ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE IN ORGANISED CRIME
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPOL’s Organised Crime Threat Assessments have not always contained a wealth of detailed useful information – but its 2009 report shows how crime groups are adopting innovative technology and organisational skills: international business should take note. Keith Nuthall reports.…
KALLAS BACK AT EUROPEAN COMMISSION FOR ANOTHER TERM
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) anti-fraud, audit and administration Commissioner Siim Kallas has been renominated to serve another five years as Estonia’s member of the European Commission. He has been formally proposed by the Estonian government, so he is almost certain to return to Brussels, given his largely trouble-free handling of his brief, which some officials at the EU executive say he may retain.…
BALTIC COSMETICS SUFFER LOCALLY, THRIVE ABROAD
BY MONIKA HANLEY
DESPITE being one of the regions hardest hit by the global financial crisis and its resulting recession, the cosmetics industry of the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) is doing surprisingly well. Although local sales have been under pressure, companies have begun expanding abroad in the last year.…
ESTONIA CASE CLEARS WAY FOR TOUGH LINE OVER SUGAR HOARDING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ABILITY of national and European Union (EU) authorities to take a tough line with confectionery companies stockpiling sugar and other products ahead of their country joining the EU has been strengthened by the European Court of Justice (ECJ).…
WHISTLEBLOWER MEP SLAMS 'ILL-CONCEIVED' EU FRAUD OFFICE
BY CHRIS JONES and DAVID HAWORTH
PAUL van Buitenen, the notorious Brussels whistleblower and sleaze-buster, has announced he will not stand for re-election as an MEP when his current term comes to an end in June.
There will be relief amongst the complacent and unworthy in all the European Union (EU) institutions that he has decided to chuck it after only five years as a parliamentarian.…
NEW EASTERN EUROPEAN EU MEMBER STATES HAVE SPENT EURO MILLIONS ON SCHENGEN BORDER TECHNOLOGY
BY MARK ROWE
ONE of the major elements of the 2004 enlargement of the European Union (EU) was its intended expansion to these new member states of the Schengen agreement, which phases out checks at shared borders and allows free movement for all within the EU.…
CYBERCRIMINALS POSE RISK TO ESSENTIAL NUCLEAR PLANT COMPUTER NETWORKS
BY KEITH NUTHALL and ALAN OSBORN
ONE of the more colourful (and thankfully less deadly) aspects of Russia’s mini-war with Georgia in August was the simultaneous attach by hackers on Georgian Internet sites, especially those of its government.,
Ones of these were crashed by ‘denial of service’ attacks, where masses of data are sent to particular sites until they cannot handle the megabytes and closedown.…
CYBERCRIMINALS POSE RISK TO ESSENTIAL ENERGY COMPANY COMPUTER NETWORKS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
LAST May, a coordinated attack on essential computer networks in the tiny Baltic republic of Estonia set nerves upon edge amongst European Internet security specialists. Following the removal of a Russian war memorial from the centre of its capital Tallinn, a still unidentified group of computer users bombarded Estonian political, government, media and banking websites with so much data, they were forced offline.…
CYBERCRIMINALS POSE RISK TO ESSENTIAL UTILITY COMPUTER NETWORKS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
LAST May, a coordinated attack on essential computer networks in the tiny Baltic republic of Estonia set nerves upon edge amongst European Internet security specialists. Following the removal of a Russian war memorial from the centre of its capital Tallinn, a still unidentified group of computer users bombarded Estonian political, government, media and banking websites with so much data, they were forced offline.…