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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has claimed that agreement of proposals to create a European Public Prosecutor to coordinate investigations and prosecutions regarding EU fraud, is essential. Without this, it said in a wide-ranging report on EU fraud, “the fight against fraud will remain a half measure and is doomed to failure.”…

BY MONICA DOBIE
BRITISH supermarket giant Tesco is likely to win a European Court of Justice case over the parallel trading of Levis Jeans.

The preliminary ruling from the Advocate General of the ECJ ruled that the trademark holder should not have the power to dictate where retailers purchase their goods.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank has created an anti-corruption department that will investigate allegations of fraud within the organisation’s staff or in projects it funds. The bank has recently appointed a director of the department, Maarten de Jong, a Dutchman, Managing Director of the European Institute for Law Enforcement Cooperation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Agency for Reconstruction – the EU group responsible for Kosovo development aid – has earmarked Euro 35 million from its budget for improvements to the province’s Bardh and Mirash coal mines. Euro 2.9 million has already been spent on rehabilitating the conveyor belt between Bardh and the Kosovo B power station, which had not been working effectively, especially since the 1999 war.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has decided not to oppose the granting of state aid by Italy to the Franco-Italian company ST Microelectronics for three research projects costing the equivalent of some pounds 275 million. The maximum aid permitted under EU regulations is pounds 86 million.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SOUTH Korean government is continuing to bankroll its shipbuilding industry, allowing its companies to continue dominating this international sector, on the basis of unfair trading practices, a European Commission report has alleged. It noted that last year saw an significant expansion in shipbuilding orders worldwide, but that the 56 per cent rise in orders “benefited South Korean yards,” which increased their market share, rather than EU shipbuilders, whose share remained static.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PUBLISHERS Association has welcomed the final agreement – after four years of discussions – of the EU digital copyright directive, but has warned that the debates are not finished, the focus will now shift to its implementation by Member States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has denied claims that it has been funding anti-Semitic textbooks used in the Palestinian Authority’s education service, even though the EU bankrolls 50 per cent of the nascent government’s budget.

MEP’s have been sent examples of Palestinian textbooks that include passages such as “Treachery and disloyalty are character traits of the Jews and therefore one should beware of them.”…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE ACQUISITION by the French steel company Usinor of a controlling 55 per cent stake in Tubisud of Italy has been cleared by the European Commission. The Commission said that while the deal would increase the presence of Usinor in the Italian markets for organically coated steel sheet and the distribution of steel, it would not significantly reduce competition.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation has formally decided to set up a new Sub-Committee on Aquaculture, serve as an intergovernmental forum for information exchange, discussion and consensus-building on emerging issues in fish farming. The FAO said that the sub-committee would provide guidance for governments and international bodies on technical and policy matters.…