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DUTCH CHICKEN FLU
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has banned the movement of live poultry and hatching eggs from the Netherlands to other European Union countries, following an outbreak of the highly contagious avian influenza amongst chickens in the eastern province of Gelderland.…
EBRD GRAIN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is lending US$15 million to the Russian and Ukrainian subsidiaries of Dutch grain and oilseed trader Nidera Handelscompagnie, to boost primary production in the ex-USSR.…
CARBON FACILITY DEAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRAZILIAN steel producer V&M do Brazil has struck the largest deal to date under the Kyoto Protocol Clean Development Mechanism. It will see the steel maker selling five million tonnes of greenhouse gas reductions for Euro 15 million to an International Finance Corporation/Dutch government fund, the IFC-Netherlands Carbon Facility.…
WORKPLACE HARASSMENT
Keith Nuthall
PSYCHOLOGICAL harassment in the workplace, especially by colleagues, is the new growing health-and-safety threat in Europe, both as a source of stress and a cause of productivity losses, a European Union (EU) agency’s report has concluded.
‘Preventing violence and harassment in the workplace’ by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions has found that defence industry workers and government officials are most likely to suffer this kind of victimisation, with 16 per cent reporting these problems.…
WORKPLACE HARASSMENT
Keith Nuthall
PSYCHOLOGICAL harassment in the workplace, especially by colleagues, is the new growing health-and-safety threat in Europe, both as a source of stress and a cause of productivity losses, a European Union (EU) agency’s report has concluded.
‘Preventing violence and harassment in the workplace’ by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions has found that defence industry workers and government officials are most likely to suffer this kind of victimisation, with 16 per cent reporting these problems.…
VIETNAM POULTRY & SHRIMP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s environment committee has attacked the lifting of a ban on Vietnamese poultry and shrimp exports into the European Union (EU) because of concerns about the use of controlled antibiotics. MEP’s accused the European Commission of acting in haste, without adequately checking whether controlled nitrofurans were still being widely used by Vietnamese shrimp and poultry producers.…
TRINIDAD CRUISE LINERS
BY ALEX SMAILES, in Port of Spain, Trinidad
BRITISH cruise ships are planning to return to Trinidad after pulling out due to a report of planned terrorist attacks against UK nationals from Islamic groups on the island. The two companies – P&O cruises and Princess Cruises – made the decision after information from the British Foreign and Commonwealth office (FCO).…
SOLUTIA DEAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the proposed acquisition by Belgian pharmaceuticals and speciality chemicals firm UCB SA/NV of the resins, adhesives and additives businesses of US company Solutia Inc, following an investigation into the deal’s potential for damaging competition in Europe.…
TAX REGIMES - EU
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) Competition Commissioner Mario Monti is to ask his colleagues on the European Commission to ban two special tax regimes – in Netherlands and Belgium – while allowing a threatened taxation system in Ireland to continue.…
WORKPLACE HARASSMENT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
PSYCHOLOGICAL harassment in the workplace is the new growing health-and-safety threat in Europe, both as a source of stress and a cause of productivity losses, a European Union (EU) agency’s report has concluded.
‘Preventing violence and harassment in the workplace’ by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions has found that defence industry workers and government officials are most likely to suffer this kind of victimisation, with 16 per cent reporting these problems.…