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Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched a formal investigation into proposals from the German government to grant Euro 92.71 million to a new company, Capro Schwedt GmbH, for the setting up of a plant in Schwedt, Brandenburg, to produce synthetic fibre production staple caprolactam.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has stated that the mass petition brought by Austria’s far right Freedom Party against the continued operation of the Temelin Nuclear Plant will not hinder negotiations on granting EU membership to its home country, the Czech Republic.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is joining talks at the WTO about a dispute between Australia and the Philippines over quarantine restrictions imposed by Canberra on imports of fresh fruit and vegetables, especially banana and pineapples.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced a new Euro 149.2 million financing scheme under its Interreg programme, which can help local and regional authorities deal with problems in border areas. In this case, the Commission has identified the North Sea as a frontier zone, with money being made available until 2006 for transnational co-operation between coastal areas in Britain, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced that it will make Euro 11 million, (Pounds 6.73 million), available for five regional programmes of innovative actions in Britain, funds that can be tapped by local authorities. The benefiting regions are the east Midlands (Euro 2.33 million), eastern England (Euro 2.27 million), north-east England (Euro 1.1 million), Wales, (2.83 million) and Yorkshire & Humberside, (Euro 2.75 million).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL AND ALAN OSBORN
PUBLIC expenditure on social protection – including pensions and health care, as well as benefits and social services – fell in the UK and the European Union between 1996 and 1999, having risen quite sharply in the first years of the 1990’s, a report from Eurostat, the EU’s statistical agency has claimed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is negotiating with EU trading partners to introduce protection for its cereals industry, involving import tariffs. Brussels is worried about price falls caused by the US Farm Bill.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to step up its drive against tax evasion in the EU by extending the existing Fiscalis co-operative programme covering VAT and excise duties to the area of direct taxation for the first time. Brussels is also expanding its fight against customs fraud.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has accepted a request by the Greek government that local small scrap and waste iron and steel dealers and all Greece-based suppliers of non-ferrous metals, should be exempted from paying VAT, because of concerns that they are abusing the tax system.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PANEL of company law specialists has made recommendations to the European Commission about a possible future EU takeover directive, which Brussels is to propose this Spring. The revamped legislation will draw on their ideas and follows the rejection by the European Parliament of a six-year-old takeovers proposal last summer.…