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While Ukraine battles an invading Russian enemy currently occupying approximately 18% of Ukrainian territory (1), it is also focused on its battle with the ‘enemy within’, namely elevated levels of corruption and other commercial crime. 

Since the Revolution of Dignity in 2014, Ukraine’s pro-Western authorities have worked tirelessly to align themselves with European Union (EU) anti-corruption and anti-fraud efforts, notably establishing the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) in 2014, which prepares corruption cases for prosecution by a Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office.…

European textile companies increasingly overburdened by regulation say each new piece of European Union (EU) regulation they face should be assessed on the grounds of how it helps industry succeed in an increasingly competitive market. They say more should be done to boost a sector that employs 1.3 million workers in 192,000 companies and provides more than EUR67 billion’s worth of exports to the 27-country bloc, according to the European Apparel and Textile Confederation (Euratex).…

The Qatargate scandal continues to encourage the European Parliament and other European Union (EU) institutions to tighten protections against graft and inappropriate influence, especially from non-EU governments.

Its key suspect Greek MEP Eva Kaili has been under house arrest since May and has (as of July) yet to revisit the parliament, where she remains a full member.…

The AML/CFT system and laws of Montenegro is also under scrutiny by FATF-style regional body Moneyval, which launched a fifth round of mutual evaluation process of this small Balkan country last March. The country, which only became independent in 2006, although with a long pre-WW1 history of autonomy and formal independence, has a population of just 620,000.…

Traceable pigments are increasingly being used as a favoured trackable method to help textile and garment companies prove that cellulosic fibres utilised in fabric and final products have been made according to high social and environmental sustainability standards. With regulation, non-financial reporting and green consumer demand pushing the industry towards using fabrics that are demonstrably sustainable, cellulosic fibres derived from wood pulp and other woody plants such as bamboo, have become more attractive as inputs.…

The European Parliament is grappling with the fallout of the Qatargate’ cash-for-influence corruption scandal. Greek socialist MEP Eva Kaili has been replaced as the parliament’s vice-president by a Luxembourg socialist, after Kaili was arrested by Brussels police. Officers allege they found EUR1.5 million cash at her home and that of former MEP Pier Antonio Panzeri, another socialist, from Italy.…

In early September (2022), Serbia faced a serious domestic milk crisis, with empty or half-empty store shelves, with consumers relying significantly on imports of foreign milk from Poland and the Czech Republic. The domestic supply squeeze was not a surprise for Serbia’s dairy farmers, however.…

INTRODUCTION

In the competitive and innovative world of smart textile manufacturing and sale, companies strive to maximise functionality and minimise costs. Their ingenuity is the basis of their competitiveness. But as with all industries, some costs are out of their control.…

With the Russian invasion of Ukraine prompting memories of the violence marring the break-up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the war is a warning that economic trends can and do flow regardless of political turmoil – and the tobacco industy is not an exception this rule.…

Greece is making an organised and coordinated attempt towards internationalising its academic institutions, boosting the global reputation of its higher education sector.

A key element of this strategy is the government’s Study in Greece (SiG) project (1), which encourages foreign students and academics to work in Greece, highlighting non-Greek language courses (especially English-language studies) at Greek Universities, and which has been operating since 2015.…