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OLAF AUDIT
Keith Nuthall
BELEAGURED European Union (EU) anti-fraud unit OLAF is to come under further pressure this year, being audited by the EU’s financial watchdog the Court of Auditors. Its president Juan Manuel Fabra Vallés told the European Parliament that the probe would be a key priority for this year and would examine OLAF’s “efficiency and effectiveness.”…
DE PALACIO ROW
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU energy Commissioner Loyola de Palacio has fuelled an ongoing row with environment Commissioner Margot Wallstrom over whether the EU should abide by the Kyoto Protocol. She told the Financial Times that the EU should examine alternative ways of dealing with climate change, while Russia dithers over ratification.…
HYDROGEN PLANE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AIRSHIP owners in the 1930’s would have laughed: hydrogen – the fuel of the future? Remember the Hindenburg? Plunging to the ground over the USA in a ball of fire, crushing a civil airline industry as it fell.…
CRAZY DRINKS LAWS
BY PHILIP FINE
AT LEAST no one in today’s America has to contend with Carry Nation. She was the late-19th century Kansas reformer who crusaded against the sale and consumption of alcohol. Known as the original saloon smasher, she would burst into bars and cause as much damage as she could to drinking establishments.…
OBESITY CLAIMS
BY MONICA DOBIE
A GROWING list of American health insurers are phasing out coverage for obesity related procedures such as gastric bypasses. In the last year, companies such as Kentucky-based Humana Inc. and UnitedHealthcare (SPELLING CORRECT), the country’s largest insurer, have stopped paying for such surgeries.…
SMALL EUROPEAN STATES - MONACO MONEY LAUNDERING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MONACO is all about money. A glamorous speck of high-rises looming above the French Riviera, it is famous for wealthy glamour, tax exiles, racing-cars and gambling. Given this cocktail, it is hardly surprising that this, Europe’s second smallest country by geography, has attracted allegations that it has been the site of money laundering.…
CUSTOMS FEATURE
BY ALAN OSBORN
MANY professions are engaged in the war against money laundering but it seems increasingly plain that customs officers are at the very forefront of the campaign. Most crime (with some forms of terrorism a conspicuous exception) is committed mainly for financial profit and that profit has to be re-cycled if the criminals are to gain anything at all from it.…
ALBANIA FEATURE
BY MARK ROWE
Mention Albania and money and one is drawn back to the extraordinary pyramid schemes that gripped the country in the mid-1990s as it emerged into a post-Stalinist dawn. Albanians poured in funds with an enthusiasm as remarkable as it was misguided.…
EU FOOD & FEED LAW
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has approved a proposed regulation tightening and harmonising EU food and animal feed controls. As it informally agreed amendments in advance with EU ministers, the law is now expected to be rubber-stamped. One change insists that national governments erect “effective, proportionate and dissuasive” sanctions to breaches of these controls and another says relevant information held by food authorities must be publicised quickly, except data “covered by professional secrecy”.…
BRUSSELS - HYBRID VINES
BY ALAN OSBORN, in London
THE EUROPEAN Commission has ordered a study of the merits of inter-specific vines, or hybrids, signalling the possible future acceptance of such vines in the European Union wine industry. Until now EU regulations have banned their use for
appellation wines, largely because of pressure from France and other countries anxious to preserve the “pure” traditional varieties grown in natural habitats.…