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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved a Euro 17 million training and exchange programme, which would provide European Union (EU) and Chinese businesses with the skills they need to effectively trade with each other. This new EU-China Managers Exchange and Training Programme would provide management training in Europe for Chinese managers from the public sector, media, non-governmental organisations, small and medium sized businesses, whilst European managers receive language training and work experience in China.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has extended to Morocco 60.4% definitive anti-dumping duties imposed in 1999 on imports into the EU of steel ropes and cables manufactured in China, because of concerns about tariff evasion. The European Commission claims that Chinese steel ropes and cables are being diverted to Morocco, then re-exported to the EU, evading the duties.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has warned it may take action to stem the anticipated flood of Chinese textile and clothing imports into Europe following January’s end of restrictive trade quotas. Under the terms of China’s accession to the World Trade Organisation, other member countries have until 2008 the right to temporarily protect industries that are threatened by surges in Chinese exports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has lifted bans on exports from China into the European Union (EU) of shrimps and farmed fish after Beijing improved its anti-biotic controls in food production. Brussels is insisting that consignments are monitored by Chinese food officials however, and are granted official certificates declaring these products comply with anti-biotic residue rules prior to shipment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has rejected European Union (EU) calls for countries to have the right to impose aviation fuel taxes on all airlines operating within their territories. ICAO’s general assembly listened to opposition from the US, China, Brazil and Russia, postponing any decision until 2007, at the earliest.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced Euro 5 million of spending to help France, Denmark, Greece and Italy promote local food products in the USA, Canada, Japan, Russia, China, Australia, Norway, Switzerland, Bulgaria and Romania.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ISSUES of commercial crime have been moving up the European Union’s (EU) policy agenda in recent years. With the arrival of a 25-member European Commission under Jose Barroso, the subject has even greater prominence and involves the responsibilities of three new Commissioners.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) incoming trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson has confessed to being “very worried” about the impact in Europe of World Trade Organisation (WTO) textile trade quota liberalisation at the end of this year.

Speaking yesterday (4-10) to a European Parliament hearing ahead of his taking office in November, he quoted reports warning that China could snatch 50% of the world’s textile markets, saying: “This is a huge challenge that we face”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN governments should exploit the scare tactics of the 1980’s when AIDS campaigns shocked promiscuous sex devotees and intravenous drug users into changing their behaviour, stemming HIV infections, the World Health Organisation has claimed. It fears dramatic increases in HIV cases in eastern Europe that are amongst the world’s worst, notably in Estonia, Latvia, Russia and the Ukraine “where the epidemic continues to spread unchecked”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A REPORT from market analysts IDC has revealed 37% of business programmes used in the EU are pirated. The study, involving 5,600 interviews, identified Greece as having the worst problem, with 63% of business software being pirated, followed by Poland and Lithuania (58%), Latvia (57%) and Estonia 54%.…