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BY KEITH NUTHALL
HIGH-PROFILE European Commission whistleblower Paul van Buitenen has detailed the recent series of European Union (EU) scandals and corruption cases within a manifesto, issued to promote his campaign for election to the European Parliament on June 10. Exploiting rules that allow European Commission officials to stand for the parliament and make detailed election statements, van Buitenen’s manifesto is actually a German and Dutch language book ‘In the Trenches of Brussels’.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has prioritised measures within an EU action plan improving developing countries’ commodities trade, especially cotton. The first steps taken by the European Commission and member states should include developing trade flows through regional deals such as EU-ACP (African, Caribbean, Pacific) agreements, and promoting commodity-based public-private partnerships.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and 16 Caribbean countries have launched negotiations to strike a 2008 trade deal, that should boost rum exports into Europe. The spirit is already the eastern Caribbean’s largest export to the EU, (11 per cent of sales – worth around Euro 320 million in 2003), with import quota restrictions removed from 2000.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and 16 Caribbean countries have launched negotiations to strike a trade deal by 2008, that should boost Jamaican bauxite exports into Europe. The mineral is already the eastern Caribbean’s largest non-food export to the EU, (eight per cent of all the region’s foreign sales being aluminium-related products – worth around Euro 223 million in 2003).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EASTERN Caribbean governments and the European Commission have launched talks to strike a bi-regional trade deal that would especially ease the import of Caribbean sugar and bananas into the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has agreed guaranteed prices for sugar traded with India and its ACP (Africa, Caribbean, Pacific) partners until June 2005. They are for raw sugar: Euro 52.37/100 kilograms; and white sugar: Euro 64.65/100 kilograms.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has thrown down the gauntlet over the agreement between the European Union (EU) and the United States over transferring airline passenger data to US authorities, voting to challenge the deal at the European Court of Justice (ECJ).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HIGH-PROFILE European Commission whistleblower Paul van Buitenen will reveal a litany of European Union (EU) scandals and corruption cases when he releases his programme this month for the oncoming European elections. Exploiting rules that allow European Commission officials to stand for the parliament and make detailed election statements, van Buitenen is publishing a book ‘In the Trenches of Brussels’ on April 28, which will officially be his election manifesto.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has admitted Mozambique to the EU’s sugar market access agreement with producing countries in the African-Caribbean-Pacific (ACP) block.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CELEBRATED European Commission whistleblower Paul Van Buitenen has launched his own slate of candidates for the June 10 European Parliament elections. Called Europa Transparant, and standing in his native Netherlands, the party had hoped to be boast the candidature of former Commission chief accountant Marta Andreason, although she has now pulled out citing family reasons.…