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A COST of maintaining nuclear generation capacity of between 95 GWe and 105GWe in the European Union (EU) until 2050 and beyond will cost between EUR350 and EUR450 billion over the next 35 years, the European Commission has concluded. (That is between USD398 billion and USD511 billion at current exchange rates).…

The attack at Brussels Zaventem airport will spark new discussions on the security of landside facilities at European airports as the European Union rolls out reforms from its European Agenda on Security Strategy (EASS).

It was launched last April (2015), and was the latest in a series of security policy developments undertaken by the EU since the September 11 attacks on the USA.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has threatened European Court of Justice (ECJ) legal action against Belgium and Poland over claims they have broken the European Union (EU) airport charges directive (2009/12/EC). The Commission says Belgium has failed to establish an independent supervisory authority to settle charge disputes between airports and airlines, as required by the law.…

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) working group on bribery has criticised three European Union (EU) member states for their “limited efforts” to comply with the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention. It is also concerned about their weak response to the working group’s recommendations for improvements made to Belgium in 2013, Finland 2010 and Slovenia 2014. …

GIOVANNI Kessler, the director-general of OLAF, the European Union’s (EU) anti-fraud agency, has been dragged deeper into the mire of the John Dalli case, with the European Commission stripping him of his legal immunity against prosecution within Belgium. Federal prosecutors in Belgium are investigating whether Kessler broke Belgian law by allegedly suggesting to a potential witness in OLAF’s Dalli probe that she record a telephone call.…

Good training is essential in the fight against fraud, stressed speakers at the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners’ (ACFE) 2016 European Fraud Conference. Indeed, with the event being held opposite Brussels airport, the value of interpreting criminal intelligence of any kind was made crystal clear by Islamic terrorists bombing its bookings hall.…

THE COMMITTEE of European Sugar Users (CIUS) has called on the European Union (EU) to take urgent action to prevent EU confectionery and sweet bakery manufacturers facing a sugar supply crunch this summer. In a strongly worded message, the industry group has said that duties and levies should not be imposed on supplies of beet and cane sugar and the EU’s cane sugar ‘CXL’ duty should be scrapped immediately.…

THE EUROPEAN Association of Sugar Pro­ducers (CEFS) and the European Federation of Trade Unions in the Food, Agriculture and Tourism sectors (EFFAT) have called for the European Union (EU) to push for a global agreement ending all subsidies and other trade-distorting policies affecting the sugar sector.…

ACCOUNTANTS are starting to tangle with the knotty question of whether to support Britain remaining in or quitting the European Union (EU) after the scheduled in-out referendum on June 23. While many UK captains of industry and business have publicly called for Britain to stay in, citing the advantages of freely accessing the EU’s 503 million person market and its trained labour pool, the question for accountants is not that simple.…

Uncertainty is growing within industry associations influencing the non-ferrous metals industry over the prospect of Britain leaving the European Union (EU) after a scheduled in-out referendum on June 23.

René van Sloten, executive director of industrial policy at The European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic), representing key suppliers to metal manufacturers, said: “If the result…is indeed that Britain would leave the EU, this would significantly impact on the way it trades with other European countries.…