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BY KEITH NUTHALL
SWITZERLAND has struck a deal with the European Union (EU) over the controversial savings tax issue, agreeing to levy a flat tax on EU citizens holding accounts in the country. The decision means the Swiss have joined Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco and San Marino in imposing withholding taxes rather than change their laws on banking secrecy.…

BY MARK ROWE
GIVEN the level of public concern over genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in what we drink and eat, most companies have chosen to tread warily around the issue and sought not to draw attention to it. In the Swedish town of Ystad, however, a small family brewery has adopted the opposite approach.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHARGES have been laid against alleged fraudsters in an Italy-based cigarette smuggling scam costing European treasuries Euro 31.6 million in evaded duties. The public prosecutor of Asti, Italy, released details of the alleged con, involving 287,884 kg of cigarettes being smuggled accompanied by forged customs stamps being presented to Italian customs officials.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project is trying to develop robots that learn new skills and communication devices that can talk to each other, all without human intervention. The Euro 4.3 million ECAgents project will attempt to bridge gaps “between complex systems research and IT”, said Stefano Nolfi, from lead project partner Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies in Rome.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations has unveiled a three-member panel charged with investigating allegations of substantial corruption within its now defunct Oil for Food Programme, under which Iraq’s deposed Baathist regime sold limited supplies of crude, supposedly to fund humanitarian supplies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTRODUCTION of a European Union (EU) health insurance card that would guarantee medical treatment for EU citizens on temporary stays in another EU country – maybe damaging demand for commercial travel insurance – has been approved by the EU Council of Ministers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITISH nurses admitting foreign patients into hospitals and clinics will have to watch out for a new European Union (EU) health insurance card that will be introduced from June, which will grant EU citizens an automatic right to care on the National Health Service.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN a move to prevent the spread of farm animal disease, Switzerland and the EU have agreed to inspect each other’s livestock, if they wander over unfenced Alpine borders.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN a move to prevent the spread of farm animal disease, Switzerland and the EU have agreed to inspect each other’s livestock, if they wander over unfenced Alpine borders.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to approve a negotiated agreement that would allow Swiss researchers to take part in Euratom funded nuclear studies, via the EU’s sixth framework programme for research. The move would amend an existing EU-Switzerland scientific and technology agreement and was negotiated this September by the European Commission and the Swiss government.…