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GREEK CULTURE MINISTRY EARMARKS 30 HECTARES OF HELLENIKON AIRPORT FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROTECTION
THE CENTRAL Archaeological Council (KAS), of Greece’s culture ministry, has ruled that 30 hectares of Athens now closed Hellenikon International Airport should be protected from redevelopment to conserve historic artefacts. The airport closed in 2001, and plans to build residential and commercial units on this coastal site have been held up while the council assessed its historic value.…
EU ROUND UP - EUROPEAN PUBLIC PROSECUTOR TO BE ESTABLISHED
COMPANIES and citizens defrauding European Union (EU) revenue collection (including
customs duties and cross-border VAT fraud) and spending programmes, may from 2020 face
direct criminal proceedings brought by a European Public Prosecutor (EPPO). The EU
Council of Ministers has approved establishing this new institution in 20 of the 28 EU
member states – Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia,
Germany, Greece, Spain, Finland, France, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Portugal,
Romania, Slovenia and Slovakia.…
GREECE JOINS THE MOVE TOWARDS MANDATORY ORIGIN LABELLING
GREECE is planning to make country-of-origin labelling on milk mandatory from 2018, Agriculture Minister Evangelos Apostolou said on 7 September. The labelling regulation bill will be discussed in the Greek parliament this week.
With this move, Greece joins a growing trend of European Union (EU) member states, notably France last year, to introduce these labelling rules for milk.…
GREECE SAYS EIGHT EU MEMBER STATES WILL FIGHT CHINESE TRADEMARKS FOR FAKE TRADITIONAL FOODS
THE GREEK government says that it and seven other European Union (EU) member states may launch legal action over the Chinese government’s refusal to ban China-registered trademarks of products falsely marketed as traditional EU-made foods.
A document released by Greece’s economy and development ministry has claimed that France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Romania and Spain have agreed to join forces to finance a case in the Chinese courts.…
CHIPITA SAYS REPORTED SLOVAK DEAL IS NOT FOR SURE
Greek savoury snacks specialist company Chipita has refused to confirm or deny reports that it plans to build a new plant for its products in Slovakia. The company told just-food.com that “it is interested in many markets (including Slovakia) and is constantly looking for opportunities.…
EU TRADE GROWING SLOWLY AS NORWAY PRISES OPEN PROTECTED DAIRY MARKET
With its rich dairy heritage and reliance on milk-based products in its diet, Norway is slowly opening up trade in its dairy sector, looking to capitalise on demand for dairy-based health and wellness products, both domestically and abroad. The country has traditionally protected its food sector, but the Norwegian dairy sector has a lot of innovative strengths.…
GREECE COSMETICS MARKET STILL SMALLER THAN BEFORE START OF COUNTRY’S ECONOMIC CRISIS
SEVEN years of recession and two years of capital controls have taken their toll not only on the Greek economy but also on the country’s cosmetics market, although local companies have been maintaining their focus on R&D and exports. According to the Hellenic Statistical Authority (Elstat), the overall turnover retail index for cosmetics and pharmaceutical products in February 2017 was 58.8% of sales in 2010 – the year marking the beginning of Greece’s financial and economic turmoil.…
EUROPE COAL SECTOR DECLINES AS POWER SOURCE - BUT PROCESS IS UNEVEN
EUROPEAN electricity industry federation Eurelectric hews closely to the views of its national associations, so when all but two of its members made a commitment in April (2017) not to fund investments in new-build coal-fired power plants after 2020, the energy sector can be sure this is a solid promise.…
EIB AND EBRD LEND EURO 467 MILLION TO FRAPORT CONSORTIUM TO IMPROVE 14 GREEK AIRPORTS
GREECE is to benefit from nearly EUR500 million’s worth of financing from the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) to finance regional airports whose concessions were approved as complying with European Union (EU) competition law in March.…
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KENYA’S EDUCATION MINISTER CALLS FOR LESS GOVERNMENT MEDDLING IN AFRICAN UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT
Kenya’s education minister has called for African governments to pull away from direct management of their country’s universities, saying such meddling is unnecessary and can hinder the development of effective management.…