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The European Parliament has given Italy’s Bruna Szego the green light to chair the European Union’s (EU) Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) (1) in a vote today (December 18) in Strasbourg, France. The vote, by a huge majority of 569 votes in favour, 20 against, and 61 abstentions, mirrored the endorsement given two days earlier in the EP committees on economic and monetary affairs (ECON) and civil liberties, justice and home affairs (LIBE), a month after they selected Szego for the job (2).…

Italian Bruna Szego is set to chair the European Union’s (EU) new Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA) (1) following a vote by two key European Parliament committees. The vote to back the only woman on the three-person shortlist to head the new Frankfurt-based AMLA, followed a three-hour closed-door hearing in Strasbourg, France with the committees on economic and monetary affairs (ECON) and civil liberties, justice and home affairs (LIBE).…

A strengthening domestic cheese market is expanding capacity for Czechia dairy manufacturers, who may use this additional production to boost export sales. Czechia may be a small European country but it is a significant cheese exporter, with more than half its cheese production sold abroad, according to Jiří Kopáček, of the Czech-Moravian Dairy Association (ČMSM).…

European Union (EU) education ministers and university experts have argued this week the creation of a European degree could boost cooperation between higher education institutions (HEIs), but that more work is needed to make it successful.

Pia Ahrenkilde Hansen, the European Commission’s director general for education, told EU education ministers (https://video.consilium.europa.eu/event/en/27718…

The European auto sector is uneasy about the 35.3% countervailing duties that the European Union (EU) has imposed on China-built BEVs on top of the standard 10% import tariff. While they were imposed in response to what the EU executive, the European Commission, claims are unfair state subsidies throughout Chinese supply chains that undercut the bloc’s own European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) has declined to comment.…

Promoting collaboration between the European Union’s (EU) anti-fraud office OLAF and the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) will be a key priority of the new EU budget, anti-fraud and public administration Commissioner once he takes office, probably on December 1.

Poland’s Piotr Serafin, a former cabinet head for past European Council president and now Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, performed effectively at his European Parliament confirmation hearing on November 7, and should be confirmed as Commissioner.…

Increasing concerns that Europe is being left behind in artificial intelligence (AI) studies and applications have promoted a call for urgent and practical action by the Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities. https://www.the-guild.eu/about/ This group of 22 universities from 16 European countries has released a detailed position paper as the new European Commission, which takes office on December 1, considers how to strengthen Europe’s AI position.…

The victory of pro-European Moldovan leader President Maia Sandu in the November 3 national election presents significant potential for the country’s clothing and textile industry. Positioned between Romania and Ukraine, Moldova has long been influenced by Russia but has applied to join the European Union (EU).…

An Italian-led investigation, supported by the European Union (EU) prosecutor and judiciary agency Eurojust, has smashed a network responsible for forging and selling 2,000 works of contemporary art, from artists including Banksy, Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso. In what Eurojust, said (1) was “an unprecedented operation”, involving Belgian, French and Spanish authorities, 38 suspects accused of involvement in a cross-border fake art network have been charged in Italy with conspiracy to forge and dealing in forged art. …

Romania uncovered EUR419 million’s worth of fraud associated with European Union (EU) spending programmes in 2023, detailed reports issued by the European Commission have revealed. The major spike in swindles, far above levels reported by other EU member states, were inflated especially by two sets of swindles associated with the EU Cohesion Fund, the bloc’s main regional development scheme, each accounting for around EUR168 million (2).…