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BY KEITH NUTHALL
DUTIES on a range of Romanian confectionary exported to European Union (EU) will be phased out by 2007, easing the country’s oncoming EU membership. Affected lines range from chewing gum, liquorice extract, white chocolate, boiled sweets and toffees.…

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
THE WORLD’S largest think tank has advised developed country governments to adopt programmes helping families achieve an acceptable work-life balance, boosting child development and general well being amongst adult workers. The Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has abandoned its usual laissez faire approach to economics and society by encouraging its rich country members to promote part-time work.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has formally approved an updated trade deal between the EU and Switzerland allowing mutual duty free sales of cocoa powder, certain sugars, jams and other products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission under incoming energy Commissioner Lázló Kovács could look to Russia and the Ukraine as the key guarantors of Europe’s future gas and oil supplies. Kovács, a Hungarian, has told the European Parliament that he intends to establish “real cooperation” with these countries as a first priority.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced that it will spend Euro 855,000 on promoting the sale of Portuguese wine in USA, Canada, Switzerland, Norway, China and Japan. The money will be combined with money from the Portuguese government and private sources, to create a total promotional budget of Euro 1.7 million, to be spent over the next three years.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
AS recently as 1989 Yugoslavia was the richest and most westernised country in eastern and central Europe and arguably among the more politically stable of them. But then came the collapse. The ethnic fighting of the early 1990s led to breakaways by Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina as independent states in 1992, leaving Serbia and Montenegro as the “Federal Republic of Yugoslavia” under Slobodan Milosevic.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Switzerland have agreed to reduce customs duties on their mutual trade in finishing agents, dye carriers (including fixers), and dyestuffs for textiles and leather. The liberalisation is part of a complex updating of an already complicated trade deal struck between Brussels and Berne in 1972.…

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
WOOL grease and related fatty substances (including lanolin) will be sold duty-free between the European Union (EU) and Switzerland under an updated free trade agreement. The initial deal was struck in 1972 and was renegotiated over the past three years.…