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BY MARK ROWE
CHOCOLATE sells in eastern Europe. One of the curiosities of the old Soviet Empire was that, even in the darkest days of rule by Stalin and Brezhnev, the USSR imported vast amounts of cocoa, simply because the Kremlin thought it was good for the masses.…

Keith Nuthall
THE JOINT Aviation Authorities (JAA) has a new chief executive: former director general of the Swiss Civil Aviation Authority AndrÃ(c) Auer, 56.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission and Switzerland have negotiated a veterinary agreement so that when either side conducts emergency vaccinations to fight a disease, they share full information. The signatories have also agreed to share good practice, scientific knowledge and cooperate to fight zoonotic diseases.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DETAILED agreement on mutual cooperation against fraud has been negotiated between the European Union (EU) and Switzerland. The deal now awaits confirmation from the Swiss federal parliament and the EU Council of Ministers before it comes into affect, probably next year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is reconsidering the appointment of Swedish Professor Ragnar Rylander to its scientific committee on health and environmental risks, following political protests. The European Parliament claimed he was “found by the Swiss court of appeal…to have lied about secret links with the tobacco industry”.…

Keith Nuthall
NEELIE Kroes, the European Union (EU) Commissioner-designate for Competition – called the Commission’s second most important job after its president’s – vigorously defended herself at the European Parliament against allegations of divided loyalties today.

Appearing at a hearing before parliament’s economic committee earlier today, she endured a three hour grilling from cross-party tormentors who included her Dutch countryman Paul van Buitenen, formerly a whistle blower and now an MEP.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IT might be one of the world’s smallest countries but you could hardly ask for a more emphatic turnaround from villain to hero in the fight against money laundering than Liechtenstein has managed over the last five years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the takeover by Swiss food packaging giant Tetra Laval of Italian food and drink filling and packaging company SIG Simonazzi.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SWISS government has agreed in principle to charging a flat tax on bank accounts held by European Union (EU) citizens, removing the last hurdle to the EU passing its long-debated savings directive. However, because Switzerland will hold a referendum on the issue, the European Commission has proposed delaying the legislation’s launch date six months until June 2005.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has authorised Europol to strike a deal with Switzerland, on swapping information, including personal data, on illegal trafficking in nuclear and radioactive substances. Europol and Swiss law enforcement units would also swap data on terrorism.…