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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has threatened Italy with legal action at the European Court of Justice over obstacles that Italian law creates for the parallel imports of cars from other European Union (EU) Member States. The Commission claims that Italy is breaking EU fair trading laws that stop national governments from unfairly protecting their own local companies against foreign EU businesses.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IF accountants want to give really useful advice to their clients that applies almost anywhere in the developed world, they should tell them to get married and have kids.

That would be the most logical conclusion that could be drawn from the latest Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) publication on tax, “Taxing Wages.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank is planning to provide Italy’s EniPower with a substantial Euro 400 million loan to help design, construct and operate a series of combined cycle gas turbines which would provide electricity to Italy’s national grid and stream to associated industrial sites.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ITALIAN government has been ordered by the European Court of Justice to reform its regulations protecting computer-using workers from eyesight problems, agreeing with a European Commission claim that its national laws break directive 90/270/EEC for work with visual display units.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ITALIAN government has been ordered by the European Court of Justice to reform its regulations protecting computer-using workers from eyesight problems, agreeing with a European Commission claim that its national laws break directive 90/270/EEC for work with visual display units.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THERE is an American company – St Lawrence of Florida – which will insure you against anything coming from outer space, be it an asteroid crashing on to the earth or abduction by aliens. The latter costs US$22.95 for cover of US$10 million.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE FLOODS in central Europe last August and September took a tragic toll of lives, disrupted local economies and devastated numerous museums with the irretrievable loss of cultural artefacts. In Dresden, the worst hit city, thousands of artworks had to be moved when both the Zwinger Palace, site of one of Europe’s great art museums, and the Albertinum Museum became victims of rising floodwater.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union funded research project has identified four strains of lactobacilli that could help treat intestinal inflammations and infections. The DEPROHEALTH scheme has received Euro1.4 million in Brussels money; its aim is to develop oral probiotic bacteria vaccines to counter conditions such as rotavirus, which causes infant diarrhoea, and Chrohn’s disease.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FORMAL threats of legal action at the European Court of Justice have been made against Austria, Belgium, Greece, Italy and Portugal over their alleged failure to implement the 1999 Directive on minimum welfare standards for laying hens. European Union governments were supposed to have introduced the standards, (including minimum cage sizes), by January 1, 2002.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
ITALY has been ordered by the European Court of Justice to cease allowing its museums and other cultural sites to discriminate against foreign European Union nationals over admission charges for its museums and other cultural sites. The European Commission said that in following up complaints from the public it had concluded that “the scheme of preferential rates applicable to persons aged over 60 or 65 years for admission to various Italian museums did indeed entail discrimination.”…