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BY PHILIPPA JONES, DOMINIQUE PATTON and LUCY JONES

The growth in outsourcing within the clothing and textile sector worldwide has highlighted a key issue, and that is the relative merits of running an integrated company that handles basic production and design, or relying on a string of specialist suppliers to deliver the goods, from fibre supplies, to textile manufacture, design, clothing assembly and retail.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON, JAMES BURNS, and JULIAN RYALL

With technological change being forced upon the auto manufacturing industry by high oil prices, plants are being retooled faster than in living memory. At such a time, companies are always looking for new ideas and technology.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AS the current European Commission begins its final year in office, has it fulfilled its promises to slash European Union (EU) fraud? Only in part, reports Keith Nuthall

IT was one of the major priorities of the European Commission led by president José Manuel Barroso: get a handle on the financial crime that bleed EU budgets of millions in Euros every year.…

BY MICHAEL ROSTON

ENERGY policy has been at the front and center of American politics, and played a major role in the 2008 presidential election. The candidates, Senators Barack Obama and John McCain, skirmished often on the best ways to deal with the cost of energy and global climate change, with Obama making the creation of millions of green jobs a centerpiece of his appeal to American voters.…

BY SARAH BROWN

WHEN US President-elect Barack Obama takes office this January 20, the transition of power may halt plans for a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada and could impede the progress of new nuclear energy development across America.…

BY RUSSELL BERMAN

THE AIRPORT industry worldwide is keeping a close watch on the transition to the newly elected US presidential administration of Barack Obama for signs of what changes he and his Democratic allies in Congress will bring to civil aviation and airport security policy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AS world leaders gather in Washington for tomorrow’s key G20 meeting, key negotiators within the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round have suggested a deal could be struck by Christmas. The European Union (EU) and possibly the United States are expected pressure India, China and others to strike a Doha deal this year at the summit.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

IT may come to nothing, but anti-money laundering practitioners in the USA have some cause for confidence following November’s historic presidential election. For the next four years at least America is going to be led by a man who has a track record in fighting money launderers and other financial criminals.…

BY MARK ROWE

ONE of the major elements of the 2004 enlargement of the European Union (EU) was its intended expansion to these new member states of the Schengen agreement, which phases out checks at shared borders and allows free movement for all within the EU.…

BY RUSSELL BERMAN

THE US president-elect, Barack Obama, will take office later this month (Jan 20) having promised sweeping changes to America’s energy policy. This includes aggressive regulations on carbon emissions to combat climate change and substantially increased government funding for alternative energy with the aim of creating a new "green" sector of the American economy devoted to the development of renewable energy, energy efficiency, clean coal and other sources.…