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UNDECLARED WORK
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GREEKS are Europe’s most dishonest tax payers a European Commission report has concluded, with more than 20% of work by value being undeclared. The paper shows Britain is much more honest, with only 2% of its GDP concealed from the taxman, second only to Austria (1.5%).…
PHILIP MORRIS - EU DEAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
PHILIP Morris and the European Commission have buried the hatchet with an out-of-court settlement that ends their long-running contraband dispute. Announcing a 12-year agreement to cooperate fighting cigarette counterfeiting, the Commission claimed the deal could also see Philip Morris International making “substantial payments” maybe totalling US$1.25 billion.…
COLUMBIAN FAKES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST counterfeiting press for Euro banknotes uncovered in Latin America has been seized by Columbian police, working with Interpol, who netted 54,400 forged 100 Euro notes, 104,700 fake US dollars and a lithograph machine in Bogota, the capital.…
CAP RETURNS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is reclaiming Euro 143.86 million in food production subsidies from 12 member countries, including Britain, because of financial irregularities, largely in the meat sector. While the UK’s repayment of Euro 1.8 million is small and for missing general payment deadlines, France faces the largest demand – for Euro 50.7 million in bovine-product premiums, especially in Corsica.…
CRESSON ECJ
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FORMER French prime minister Edith Cresson will face charges she broke European Union (EU) maladministration rules when serving as European Commissioner for education from 1995 to 1999. The European Court of Justice will rule on whether she committed “favouritism” and “gross negligence” offences under European Union (EU) treaty commitments for commissioners.…
SALMON INFECTION
KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW outbreak of infectious salmon anaemia has been reported in Maine, the USA, by the Office International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation. It says that 4,000 fish have been slaughtered because of the disease, at a farm in Cobscook Bay, Deep Cove; 7,000 fish were susceptible, it added.…
EPA POLLUTION WARNING
BY MONICA DOBIE
THE USA’S Environmental Protection Agency has warned against eating more than half a serving a month of Atlantic salmon and trout raised in federal hatcheries in the north-east United States because of high levels of dioxins and PCB’s.…
EGYPT - WATER
KEITH NUTHALL
EGYPTIAN fish farms are being supplied with Cairo wastewater cleansed by innovative biotechnology. In a scheme coordinated by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Egyptian government is pumping 25,000 cubic metres of water from a drain serving the capital into huge ponds, where sediments settle.…
GM FEED
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MONSANTO has secured authorisation for selling NK603 genetically modified maize as animal feed in the European Union (EU). This licence lasts for 10 years, but imports can only commence once an approval for the maize to be sold as a food product is secured.…
CAP RETURNS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is reclaiming Euro 143.86 million in food production subsidies from 12 member countries, including Britain, because of financial irregularities, largely in the meat sector. While the UK’s repayment of Euro 1.8 million is small and for missing general payment deadlines, France faces the largest demand – for Euro 50.7 million in bovine-product premiums, especially in Corsica.…