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BY ALAN OSBORN
The creation of a European Public Prosecutor next year is among a number of

actions announced by the European Commission in its fight against fraud. In

its annual report the Commission claims to be slowly winning the battle,

saying there was a reduction of 20 per cent to 482 million euros in

financial “irregularities” in 2003.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) body that represents local and regional authorities has called on the European Commission to review its state aid guidelines to allow its members to subsidise low cost airlines working from regional airports, because of the economic development they promote.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening to ask the European Court of Justice to levy daily recurring fines of Euro 1,000’s against eight European Union (EU) member countries failing to scrap bilateral ‘open skies’; deals with the USA. Despite being so ordered 18 months ago, Austria, Belgium, Britain, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg and Sweden have maintained their agreements while the Commission negotiates an EU-wide replacement.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) body that represents local and regional authorities has called on the European Commission to review its state aid guidelines to allow its members to help low cost airlines work from regional airports, because of the economic development they promote.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ACCORDING to popular prejudice, Britons are work obsessed and driven, spending too many evenings in the office, while the French are lazy clock watchers, with an eye on that two hour lunch break – but this could be pure myth according to a European Union (EU) study.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Committee of the Regions has called on the European Commission to review its state aid guidelines to allow councils to help low cost airlines work from regional airports, because of the resulting economic development.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NATIONAL work accident statistics are keenly examined by occupational health practitioners, but they do not enable the safety of British workplaces to be compared against other European countries; that is where Eurostat, the European Union’s (EU) statistical agency comes in.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ACCORDING to popular prejudice, Britons are work obsessed and driven, spending too many evenings in the office, while the French are lazy clock watchers, with an eye on that two hour lunch break – but this could be pure myth according to a European Union (EU) study.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening seven European Union (EU) countries with legal action at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for failing to apply EU law and give local companies the option of applying International Accounting Standard (IAS) 39 on financial instruments.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN’S tax burden as a proportion of GDP fell sharply in 2002 to 35.8% from 37.3% in 2001, confirming the UK as among the lightest taxed jurisdictions in the European Union (EU). The contrast is especially marked with its key competitors Germany (40.2% in 2002), France (44.2%), and Italy (41.7%), according to the latest available comparative figures from EU statistical agency Eurostat.…