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BOOMING CHINA TO BECOME INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT FOOD EXPORT MARKET
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Commission report has highlighted how China is expected to become an increasingly huge export market for food producers, already (in 2006) having a US$6.1 billion agricultural trade deficit.
With "imports are expected to grow faster than exports", this deficit (which includes non-food fibre crops) "is expected to grow over the next 10 years" financed by its huge trade surplus in manufactured non-food goods.…
BRUSSELS MOVES TO INCREASE FOOD PRODUCTION IN EUROPE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FACED with an international food shortage and rising food process, the European Commission has proposed permanently scrapping the ‘set-aside’ system, where 10% of European Union (EU) farm fields lie fallow.
Also, as expected, the Commission has proposed scrapping restrictive milk quotas from 2015, with five annual 1% production quota increases before that date.…
AFGHANISTAN HAS PAPER AML/CFT CONTROLS IN PLACE, BUT WEAKNESS OF GOVERNMENT HAMPERS IMPLEMENTATION
BY PAUL COCHRANE
SINCE the USA-led military intervention in 2001 helped overthrow the Taliban region in Afghanistan, the country has made important steps to curb money laundering and terrorist financing. In 2004, anti-money laundering (AML) and combating terrorist financing (CTF) legislation was enacted, and a Financial Investigation Unit (FIU) established.…
NEW TECHNOLOGY WILL NOT LET UTILITIES OFF THE HOOK IN REDUCING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
BY ANDREW CAVE
SCARCELY a week goes by without volumes of newsprint or prime broadcasting slots being devoted to new and ingenious ways of mitigating climate change.
Global warming is now widely regarded the single most important issue the world faces, so it is no surprise that it is exercising the minds of the world’s most creative scientists.…
FRANCE: Global list of business schools published
By Alan Osborn
The Paris-based educational consulting company Eduniversal, part of the SMBG group, has published a list of 1,000 top business schools ranking them by their "capacity for international influence" and grouped into nine geographic regions. SMBG, which specialises in reference services and publications for educational and higher educational institutions, claims that the Eduniversal initiative is "the first stone of a global federation of education."…
GLOBAL - IFC plans private education development strategy
By Keith Nuthall
THE ABILITY of private tertiary education to give emerging economies a shot in the arm will be debated this week at a major conference in Washington DC, staged by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank.…
SEAFOOD INDUSTRY WORLDWIDE STILL STRUGGLING TO BECOME COMMERCIALLY AND ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE
BY ANDREW CAVE
WITH scientific evidence of global fish depletion, governments and the fishing industry worldwide might be expected find common cause around ensuring sustainable resources will still exist in future years.
That’s not exactly how the response to fisheries sustainability has been framed, however.…
SMALLER EASTERN EUROPE COUNTRIES PREPARED TO CLUB TOGETHER TO ASSURE THEIR NUCLEAR FUTURES
BY MARK ROWE
NUCLEAR energy production costs a lot of money and so it makes some economic sense for smaller countries interested in this climate-change friendly power supply to combine forces on major projects. So it is in eastern Europe, where in February 2007, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Poland provisionally agreed to build a new nuclear plant at Lithuania’s existing Ignalina site, initially with 3,200 MWe.…
GLOBAL NUCLEAR FUEL BANK SET FOR LAUNCH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GLOBAL initiative is to be launched allowing developing countries to acquire nuclear power, without the concerns associated with proliferation and security that have followed the use of this technology in North Korea, Pakistan, Iran and elsewhere. Kuwait has become the latest country to back a proposed multinational nuclear fuel bank under International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) management, with the emirate offering US$10 million.…
EUROPEAN AUTO INDUSTRY MAY BE FORCED INTO FREE-FOR-ALL COMPETITION REGIMEEUROPEAN AUTO INDUSTRY MAY BE FORCED INTO FREE-FOR-ALL COMPETITION REGIME
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN auto industry – long the continent’s odd man out in terms of competition law – may have to face a new laissez faire legal regime that would ban formal links between manufacturers, dealers and repairers.
This warning is clear in a report released yesterday (May 28) by the European Commission on how the European Union’s (EU) ‘block exemption’ system, protecting the EU auto industry from the full force of European competition law, has been working.…