EUROPEAN COMMISSION RELEASES PLAN TO INCREASE EUROPEAN RAW MATERIALS SECURITY – INCLUDING LEATHER
November 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A 10-POINT plan to improve and secure the supply of raw materials such as leather within the European Union (EU) has been released by the European Commission. The wide-ranging initiative has been devised as European governments become increasingly nervous about their ability to source the raw materials needed by their manufacturing industries. In an interventionist plan coordinated by the EU's industry Commissioner Günter Verheugen, (a German social democrat), Brussels suggests diplomatic and trade negotiation pushes to end export restrictions ...
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