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KEITH NUTHALL
THE MOST important driver of reform in the institutions of the European Union today is the impending enlargement of the EU eastwards, to take in (Greek) Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GROCERY Manufacturers of America group has applauded a new trade agreement between the United States and Chile. The GMA says the pact will spur freer trade of processed food to south America, and singles out the agreement’s proposed reductions in tariffs for such items as breakfast cereals, pasta and french fries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening the French government with massive daily recurring fines if it continues to ignore a European Court of Justice ruling that it abandons its tax discrimination against Virginia-type tobacco, most of which is imported.…

BY MARK ROWE
Book sales in Singapore for the Christmas period remained buoyant for larger retailers, defying the city state’s generally dismal retail climate.

Kinokuniya, one of the biggest retailers, pushed an aggressive holiday advertising and promotion campaign that helped it achieve almost 10 per cent growth for the year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is trying to persuade the European Union Council of Ministers to slap an import ban on poultry, poultry meat and eggs imports from California, where there is an outbreak of Newcastle Disease, while accepting these products from other parts of the United States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to spend Euro 4.4 million on a Danish-French programme to promote sales of European Union bacon in Japan. Coordinated by Danske Slagterier, the Danish Bacon and Meat Council, the three-year campaign should stress the quality, hygiene, food safety, nutrition, labelling, animal welfare or environment-friendliness of EU bacon.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission announced yesterday (Thursday) that it would provide Euro 1.4 million (Pounds 840,000) – or half the total cost – of a Euro 2.8

million (Pounds 1.7million) campaign to promote European wines in the US. The other half will be met by French and Spanish wine organisations.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON, in Newcastle, England, PHILIP FINE and MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal, Canada

SPACE may be Star Trek’s final frontier, but in reality innovations used on rockets and satellites do not stay in orbit; they are often brought back to Earth where they have been used by auto-manufacturers to break their own technological boundaries.…

BY DENMARK FINCH AND FRITZ BRETT
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REDUCING stress amongst employees at work can make a major improvement to the bottom line of companies; indeed, so expensive is the problem, says the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, it is thought to cost the EU at least Euro 20 billion a year in lost time and health costs and affect more than 40 million of its employees.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE REPUBLIC of the Congo (Brazzaville) has launched a case at the International Court of Justice, in the Hague, which is trying to undermine the principle of extra-territoriality under which activist magistrates, for instance in Belgium and Spain, have been seeking to prosecute crimes committed abroad.…