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Keith Nuthall
REFORMS that are needed to promote a seamless single market in financial services that spans the whole European Union will be debated on Friday, (Feb 22), in Brussels, with the European Commission inviting private sector representatives, regulators, national governments and other EU institutions to a key meeting.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU health and consumer affairs Commissioner David Byrne has thrown a lyrical punch at Japan Tobacco International, which has taken the European Commission to the European Court of Justice over its restrictions on “light” and “low tar” descriptors.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed that airport slots abandoned by airlines because of the drop in traffic following the September 11 attacks should be earmarked for their use in the coming year. Brussels is concerned that any reallocation of slots could cause chaos and confusion amongst operators, should the air passenger market recover suddenly.…

Keith Nuthall
THE GROWING thaw in relations between Spain and Britain over the future of Gibraltar and its airport, has prompted the European Commission to retable a long-standing proposal to establish a European Union regime on the safety inspection of aircraft from non-EU countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ABILITY of the European Commission to effectively monitor the European Union insurance sector has been called into question by MEP’s, who have admitted being “astonished” after receiving official complaints about irregularities at Lloyd’s of London dating back 20 years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared a significant legal obstacle preventing the French government going ahead with plans to spend national state aid on subsidising start-up short sea shipping runs.

Brussels has ordered that such grants would be legal under European Union state aid regulations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH formal approval being secured for the launch of the European Food Safety Authority, the European Commission has promised to work swiftly so that the new body can be operational by the end of this year in its temporary home in Evere, north Brussels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Medicines Evaluation Agency has publicised a warning made by German pharmaceuticals company Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH that users of its product Metalyse have been incorrectly using the vial and pre-filled syringe used to administer the medicine.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DOCTORS treating Chron’s disease and rheumatoid arthritis with the drug Remicade must ensure that their patients have tuberculosis, (including latent TB), or other severe infections including sepsis, abscesses or “opportunistic infections,” the European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products, (EMEA), has said.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PORT of Durrës, in Albania – one of Europe’s poorest countries – is to receive a much needed financial shot in the arm of Euro 17 million from the European Investment Bank, which will pay for the rehabilitation and upgrading of cargo handling facilities and quays.…