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To keep pace with today’s global and interconnected world, auditors must move with the times, European experts told a high-level Brussels conference on November 16.  Maggie McGhee, director of professional insights at the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) – joint hosts of the ‘Future of Audit’ conference with assurance, tax and advisory services network Grant Thornton International, said: “Auditors need to adapt and constantly innovate.…

THE SIGNING of a Comprehensive Economic & Trade Agreement between the European Union (EU) and Canada (CETA) on October 30 will have a positive impact on the personal care product sector, industry associations have claimed on both sides of the Atlantic.…

BRITISH company boards will have another Brexit-related issue to consider now that the European Union (EU) appears set to approve the controversial Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada. Will it apply in Britain once the UK quits the EU?…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has finally been instructed to draft a European Union (EU) directive authorising an EU financial transaction tax, which would apply to 10 of the EU’s 28 member states.

Meeting on the margins of a Eurogroup session in Luxembourg on Monday (Oct 10), the governments of Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain agreed to push ahead with the project.…

TURKEY’S carpet sector continues to thrive according to recent trade data, with the industry association saying the sector was not harmed by the recent attempted military coup against the elected government.

According to recent figures from the European Apparel and Textile Confederation, Euratex, Turkey was once again Europe’s leading supplier of carpets in 2015, with a 3.5% year-on-year increase in sales from 2014, to EUR378 million last year.…

There is “irrefutable evidence” the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 that crashed over war-torn Ukraine on 17 July 2014 was hit by a Russia-made BUK missile from the 9M38 series, the Dutch Public Prosecution Service’s Joint Investigation Team (JIT) told a Wednesday (September 28) press conference for relatives of the 298 victims.…

AS the British government starts the complex process of considering the form of the UK’s post-Brexit relationship with the European Union (EU), one issue will be foremost in the minds of exporters – tariffs.

These have not existed for UK exports to other members of the EU since 1973, when Britain joined what was then called the European Economic Community (EEC).…

EUROPEAN COMMISSION LAUNCHES GLOBAL TAX AVOIDANCE BLACKLIST ASSESSMENT

THE EUROPEAN Commission has completed the first phase of an assessment designed to help the European Union (EU) frame its own blacklist of jurisdictions deemed un-cooperative over tax avoidance and evasion. Brussels has released a ‘scoreboard’ of non-EU jurisdictions judging whether they exchange information with foreign tax authorities, have preferential or low tax regimes, have close and important economic and financial links with the EU and are politically stable (and hence more attractive as a tax haven).…

The European Commission’s decision on August 30 to order United States (US) tech giant Apple to repay Ireland a record-breaking EUR13 billion in back taxes will make waves in the tax and accounting world, experts have told Accounting & Business Ireland.…

BIG marketing stunts can boost sales of technical textiles and maybe one of the biggest examples in Europe this year was created by world renowned artists Christo. He created ‘The Floating Piers’ on Lake Iseo, near Brescia, in northern Italy.…