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BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHEN the European Union (EU) signed up to an Agreement on Textiles and Clothing at the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) last Uruguay Round that foresaw the scrapping of import quotas at the start of 2005, it is hard to imagine it viewing the deal as a way to boost production in knitted products.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) organisation tasked with reviving the war-damaged south-eastern Balkans has released a plan to move Macedonia’s wine industry from a bulk producer of cheap wine towards a higher-end sector, tapping western export markets. The country has a wine-making tradition, still exhibits a (former) communist command economy inspired indifference to quality.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is lending Macedonian baked-goods producer Zitoluks AD Euro 8 million to help it expand, refurbish its existing outlets.…

BY MARK ROWE
MENTION Albania and money, and the image that comes to mind is of the extraordinary pyramid schemes that gripped the country in the mid-1990s as the country stepped out into a post-Stalinist dawn. Albanians poured their assets into the schemes, with an enthusiasm that was as remarkable as it was misguided.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is lending Macedonian baked-goods producer Zitoluks AD Euro 8 million to help it expand, refurbish its existing outlets.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union is to pay for a new software system, computers and other information technology equipment to improve the functioning of the judiciary in the former Yugoslavian republic of Macedonia. The EU aid – worth in total Euro 1.9 million – follows a report detailing serious inadequacies in the legal system in Macedonia, including the fact that judges there had to deal with about 800 cases annually compared to a maximum of 300 in the EU itself.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has struck a food trade deal with Macedonia, halving import duties on a range of EU food products and ingredients by 2010, scrapping them by 2011. Affected products include chocolate, cocoa powder, sugar, poultry meat, bovine offal, sausages and many others.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THERE is a significant risk that Europe’s summer of blackouts could be repeated after 2008, unless effective investments are made in power generation and distribution plant, the Union for the Co-ordination of Transmission of Electricity (UCTE), has warned.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has struck a food trade deal with Macedonia, which would see Macedonian import duties on a range of EU confectionary products and ingredients fall by half by 2010, being scrapped by 2011. Affected products include chocolate, cocoa powder and sugar.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has struck a food trade deal with Macedonia, which would see Macedonian import duties on a range of EU confectionary products and ingredients fall by half by 2010, being scrapped by 2011. Affected products include chocolate, cocoa powder and sugar.…