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GREEN 8 CRITICISM
BY Alan Osborn
Top level plans drawn up for the future of Europe aren’t green enough says an informal coalition of eight leading environmental organisations. The group has strongly challenged the constitutional blueprint for the future of the EU set out by the European Convention (composed of governments, parliaments, EU institutions, academics and others) and has proposed significant changes in the detail as well as the overall thrust of the text.…
INTERNATIONAL CORRUPTION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL Group for Anti-Corruption Coordination (IGAC) is being created. The new body – involving UN agencies, intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations – will share good practice and intelligence on corruption. Founders include the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the European Commission, the OECD, EU anti-fraud office OLAF, Interpol, the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and Transparency International.…
US ENERGY COMPANY TO SELL EUROPEAN NATURAL GAS BUSINESS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
Duke Energy Corp, a diversified US energy company based in Charlotte, is in discussions with “several potential buyers” for its European natural gas business, the company has announced. It gave no details of the possible buyers or price.…
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION ROUND UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
*A south-south project – backed by World Bank Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) will raise Burundi’s teledensity ratio above one per cent. It is guaranteeing Mauritius Telecom Ltd’s US$1.01 million investment in Burundi’s Africell GSM mobile network.
*An emerging international market in hosting regional and international headquarters of transnational corporations benefits developing countries, says the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD); 829 HQs were established or relocated January 2002 to March 2003, nearly a quarter in developing countries.…
METLIFE IBERIA
BY ALAN OSBORN
The European Commission has cleared the purchase of the Spanish insurance company Metlife Iberia, currently controlled by Metlife International Holdings of the US, by Liberty Insurance Group Compañía de Seguros y Reaseguros. The buyer is part of the US group Liberty Mutual.…
IRELAND FEATURE
BY ALAN OSBORN
IN terms of compliance with the anti-money laundering rules and regulations laid down by supra-national bodies like the European Commission and the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), Ireland today is right up there at the top of the class.…
USA OBESITY LAWSUITS
BY PHILIP FINE
AN ASSUMPTION has been made by many in the past few months in the international food industry: the unveiling of so many new low-calorie and low-fat alternative food items must have something to do with obesity-related litigation lurking in the US.…
CHINA LOAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation, of the World Bank, is lending US$22 million loan to a Chinese pork producer. The Jilin Huazheng Agricultural Development Company Ltd will increase its pig breeding farms, upgrade slaughtering capacity, and build a new processing plant for ready-to-eat packaged meats.…
ACCOUNTING REFORM DOUBTS
Keith Nuthall
Serious doubts have been expressed over the European Commission’s
ability to meet its 2005 deadline for the reform of its accounting system.
In a letter sent on July 2nd to commissioners Michaele Schreyer, who is in
charge of the Euro 79 billion budget, and Neil Kinnock, who handles
internal administration, the commission’s internal auditor Jules Muis said
the proposed timetable was “not achievable.”…
SMOKING BANS - USA
BY PHILIP FINE
FROM Gaudeloupe, Arizona, to Duxbury, Massachusetts, and from Helena, Montana, to Loganville, Georgia, US smoking bans have increasingly been finding a small-town
following ; 78 towns and cities in the United States have now enacted smoking bans in all workplaces and restaurants within their municipalities.…