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European Union (EU) education ministers and university experts have argued this week the creation of a European degree could boost cooperation between higher education institutions (HEIs), but that more work is needed to make it successful.

Pia Ahrenkilde Hansen, the European Commission’s director general for education, told EU education ministers (https://video.consilium.europa.eu/event/en/27718…

The European auto sector is uneasy about the 35.3% countervailing duties that the European Union (EU) has imposed on China-built BEVs on top of the standard 10% import tariff. While they were imposed in response to what the EU executive, the European Commission, claims are unfair state subsidies throughout Chinese supply chains that undercut the bloc’s own European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) has declined to comment.…

An Italian-led investigation, supported by the European Union (EU) prosecutor and judiciary agency Eurojust, has smashed a network responsible for forging and selling 2,000 works of contemporary art, from artists including Banksy, Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso. In what Eurojust, said (1) was “an unprecedented operation”, involving Belgian, French and Spanish authorities, 38 suspects accused of involvement in a cross-border fake art network have been charged in Italy with conspiracy to forge and dealing in forged art. …

Jordan’s textile and leather industries have made impressive strides over the past six months, driven by a robust increase in exports and greater investment in raw materials, despite ongoing conflicts in neighbouring Lebanon and Israel.

Indeed, Jordan’s combined textile and leather industry achieved remarkable year-on-year growth of 11.8% in the second quarter of 2024, said Ihab Qadri, representative of the leather and textile industry at the Jordan Chamber of Industry (JCI).…

The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) is considering a report highlighting difficulties in implementing its first two standards, with board members to consider whether they need amending. The paper focuses especially on problems linked to IFRS S2 on climate-related disclosures, such as concluding paragraphs being “unclear and [that] appear contradictory” to requirements in IFRS S2 regarding disclosure of “scope 3 category 15 GHG emissions”, for example.…

Tanzania is now Africa’s second-largest raw tobacco producer after Zimbabwe, according to the country’s agriculture minister Hussein Bashe and plans are underway to increase production and leaf processing capacity by encouraging more small-scale farmers to engage in contractual tobacco commercial farming.…

European Union (EU) member states are failing to implement mandatory sustainability reporting rules imposed by the EU’s corporate sustainability reporting directive (CSRD), the European Commission has concluded. It has opened infringement procedures against 17 of the 27 EU countries saying they have failed to properly write the directive into their national legislation: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia and Spain.…

Companies and researchers are increasingly offering innovative coatings to help businesses and governments fight climate change, providing insulation, heat reflection and other energy-saving functionalities. These products also aid compliance with burgeoning legislation targeting net zero emissions by 2050 and meet intensifying consumer concern about the impact of climate change.…

Belgium is a beer heavyweight in global markets, and hence a major source of canning demand, with 417 brewers according to the country’s industry association Belgian Brewers, providing nearly 7,000 jobs (1). It is the fifth biggest producer in Europe, producing 2.047 billion litres of beer in 2023, according to the latest European Union (EU) statistical agency Eurostat figures (2).…

Romania uncovered EUR419 million’s worth of fraud associated with European Union (EU) spending programmes in 2023, detailed reports issued by the European Commission have revealed. The major spike in swindles, far above levels reported by other EU member states, were inflated especially by two sets of swindles associated with the EU Cohesion Fund, the bloc’s main regional development scheme, each accounting for around EUR168 million (2).…