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MAURITANIA PROCESSING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has drawn up plans to lend Spanish fish products group MAPESCA Euro six million to establish a fish processing plant in the northern Mauritania port of Nouadhibou. Its aim would be to manufacture fish products that could be exported direct to western markets, rather fresh fish being consumed locally or exported without manufacturing value being added locally.…
FIBRE GLASS COMPOSITE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW advanced carbon-fibre composites have been developed by a European Union research project that can be used to strengthen decaying and historic buildings, allowing contractors to avoid using more cumbersome traditional methods. The international COMREHAB project has created high resistance synthetic fibres from epoxy or polyester resin matrixes.…
SPAIN - ENERGY DRINKS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening Spain with legal action at the European Court of Justice over a ban on certain energy drinks and dietary supplements containing guarana and a high percentage of caffeine imposed in the Valencia region.…
DRINKS INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS
BY KEITH NUTHALL in Paris, ALAN OSBORN in London, MARK ROWE in Singapore, ED PETERS and DON GASPER in Hong Kong, RICHARD HURST in Johannesburg, MONICA DOBIE and PHILIP FINE in Montreal, MATTHEW BRACE in Brisbane and ALEX SMAILES in Port of Spain.…
E BANKING CONFIDENCE
BY KEITH NUTHALL and PHILIP FINE
EUROPEAN Union consumers have a "reasonable level" of confidence in making online financial transactions, although concerns are more intense in southern Europe. According to European Commission figures, on a scale of 1-10 (with 10 representing absolute confidence), on average EU citizens rate their feelings at 7.08.…
DE PALACIO v WALLSTROM
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SHARP public spat over the Kyoto Protocol has soured relations between the European Union’s (EU) environment Commissioner Margot Wallström and energy Commissioner Loyola de Palacio. The social democrat Swede criticised her Spanish conservative colleague in an undiplomatic briefing to journalists in Brussels, following de Palacio’s comments that the EU might have to reconsider supporting Kyoto, given Russia’s reluctance to ratify it.…
METLIFE IBERIA
BY ALAN OSBORN
The European Commission has cleared the purchase of the Spanish insurance company Metlife Iberia, currently controlled by Metlife International Holdings of the US, by Liberty Insurance Group Compañía de Seguros y Reaseguros. The buyer is part of the US group Liberty Mutual.…
ENVIRONMENTAL NGO ATTACK
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE PRESENT European Commission under the presidency of Romano Prodi has sometimes been said to be ‘green-minded,’ in that it takes a more friendly attitude towards the environment than either its predecessors or the European Union member governments.…
SPAIN EXPORT SUBSIDIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced that it will be grant aiding Spain’s Institut del Cava with Euro 945,038 to help it promote Spanish wine exports outside of the European Union over the next three years. National funds are expected to top up this programme, raising the overall budget to Euro 1,890,076.…
GOLDEN SHARES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
GOLDEN shares retained by the Spanish government in its privatised national tobacco giant Tabacalera are illegal under European Union freedom of movement of capital laws, the European Court of Justice has ruled. Spanish legislation allows Madrid control over some major decisions relating to the winding-up, de-merger, merger, disposal of assets and others of some privatised companies.…