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BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi
BACKED by a sense of achievement from the successful trip to Egmont Group’s 15th Plenary Session in Bermuda in May, where India finally got admitted into this key international anti-money laundering group, Arun Goyal, director of the country’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU-IND), has claimed in an exclusive interview with the Money Laundering Bulletin that after one year in business his agency is now fully operational.…

BY SUZANNE KOELEGA, in Sint Maarten
AS leaders of various Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries and US President George Bush debated regional security in Washington DC in June, Caribbean nations continue to struggle with serious commercial crime that threatens their regional stability.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have refused to give up on EU global positioning service GALILEO, telling the European Commission to draw up detailed proposals by September for initial funding by taxpayers. Whilst leaving an option to pull the plug, an EU Council of Ministers meeting has backed a communiqué that “reaffirms the value of Galileo as a key project”, and accepts its deployment will require “additional public funding”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is planning to propose a directive writing into European Union (EU) law the target accepted by EU ministers earlier this year that 20% of Europe’s energy be renewable by 2020.

Speaking to a Paris energy conference, EU energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs said: “By the end of this year, I will table a new ‘umbrella renewables directive’.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have refused to give up on EU global positioning service GALILEO, telling the European Commission to draw up detailed proposals by September for initial funding by taxpayers. Whilst leaving an option to pull the plug, an EU Council of Ministers meeting has backed a communiqué that “reaffirms the value of Galileo as a key project”, and accepts its deployment will require “additional public funding”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is planning to propose a directive writing into European Union (EU) law the target accepted by EU ministers earlier this year that 20% of Europe’s energy be renewable by 2020.

Speaking to a Paris energy conference, EU energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs said: “By the end of this year, I will table a new ‘umbrella renewables directive’.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have refused to give up on EU global positioning service GALILEO, telling the European Commission to draw up detailed proposals by September for initial funding by taxpayers. Whilst leaving an option to pull the plug, an EU Council of Ministers meeting has backed a communiqué that "reaffirms the value of Galileo as a key project", and accepts its deployment will require "additional public funding".…

BY CHRISTOPHER JONES, in Brussels
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) headline-grabbing proposals to reduce EU carbon emissions by 20% by 2020 could prove overly ambitious, according to the new secretary general of Eurelectric, the industry association representing the electricity industry at the EU level.…

BY CHRISTOPHER JONES, in Brussels

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) headline-grabbing proposals to reduce EU carbon emissions by 20% by 2020 could prove overly ambitious, according to the new secretary general of Eurelectric, the industry association representing the electricity industry at the EU level.…

BY MARK ROWE, in Stockholm

Interview with Anna Laestadius, Director Global Brand, Absolut Vodka.

*How would you describe the market for Absolut at the moment?

Absolut grew by seven per cent worldwide in 2006, from what we viewed as an already strong position, to a total volume of 89 million litres (2005, 83 million litres).…