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THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced a series of three-year spending programmes helping meat producers from around the European Union (EU) sell their products at home and abroad. The money funds “public relations, promotional or publicity campaigns” said Brussels, with spending being augmented by matching funding sourced from industry groups and national governments.…

THE USA’s Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) has warned that America’s federal ‘sequestration’ public spending cuts and more recent budget proposals from President Obama could restrict access to new effective drugs, inflating healthcare costs.

PhRMA senior vice president Matthew Bennett fears potential cuts to the Medicare Part D prescription drug subsidy system, he claims “greatly improved seniors’ access to medicines…” He argued this has depressed insurance premiums, and “achieved billions of dollars of savings on other Medicare costs by improving health”.…

IT is a long way from China, east Asia and south Asia to the key developed world markets or Europe and America. And with fashion being so dynamic, demand for a line could have dampened in the months between placing an order and receiving delivery.…

NICHOLAS Hoare, Canada’s specialist British book retailer is closing for good, after its eponymous 70-year-old founder decided to retire and move to a stately house in rural Nova Scotia, in eastern Canada.

The chain has been contracting, closing its Ottawa store last April and its Montreal branch on New Year’s Day, and finally its Toronto flagship outlet on April 1.…

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software has also undergone a profound change over recent years, dominated by three catchwords: integration, cloud computing and social design.

Integration is perhaps the most significant, short-term trend in both PLM and ERP development for the clothing and textile sector, and others.…

THE ANNUAL conference of the European University Association (EUA) has debated how rankings systems need to become more sophisticated benchmarks as the higher education system worldwide becomes more internationalised.

Speaking to University World News after last week’s event in Ghent, Belgium, Ms Lesley Wilson, the EUA’s Secretary General, said that while “everyone has a different view” about rankings, they need to deliver sophisticated benchmarking systems with which institutions will be able to compare themselves against other learning bodies.…

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) needs to act on its long discussed goal of creating an EU public prosecutor to protect its financial interests and should also introduce an EU-wide definition of mafia-style organised crime, MEPs said this week. A European Parliament’s special committee on organised crime, corruption and money laundering (CRIM) has now recommended in draft proposals that an EU prosecutor should coordinate and encourage national investigations, while interacting with law enforcement agency Europol, judicial cooperation unit Eurojust, and EU anti-fraud office OLAF.…

FROM large corporate crime through to healthcare and individual insurance frauds, sentences and headlines convey the impression that the USA is tough on the cheats and crooks.

Crooked financier Allen Stanford is one year into the 110-year prison sentence handed down to him after the Texan was convicted in the USA of a USD7 billion Ponzi scheme and related fraud, one of the largest financial crime cases in US history.…

THE QUESTION of whether publicly-supported refuelling and recharging stations are needed to jump-start demand for electric, hydrogen and other alternatively-powered vehicles seems almost as old as the conundrum about the chicken and the egg. Yet, a clear answer has yet to be supplied – and with green vehicle sales still generally weak – the European Commission has decided that for Europe, it might as well push ahead with proactively creating refuelling/charging networks anyway.…

COLOMBIA industry associations and politicians have warned the country’s automotive industry is at risk following the signing of a free trade agreement with South Korea in February.

The free trade agreement, which is expected to come into force at the end of this year, will eventually allow South Korea-made vehicles to enter the South American country free of the current 35% tariff.…