Search Results for: Bulgarian

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CORRUPTION is hard to pin down and is by nature the most insidious commercial crime. While the European Union (EU) has been showing its concern that Europe’s governments and international organisations are at risk, news about a probe into European Parliament financial misdemeanours have highlighted the EU’s own failings.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EURO 2.58 million international research project is being organised by the European Union’s (EU) Eureka research network charged with investigating the design of new laminated packages – from paper to aluminium. Its aim is to develop by June 2010 new packs that extend shelf life of food products, said a note from Eureka.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BULGARIA’S road system is to be raised from its current poor and congested standard by Euro 1.6 billion in investment from the European Commission. New motorways will be built and existing international routes upgraded, such as the Vratza-Botevgrad, Struma and Maritza motorways.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have backed the European Commission’s move to introduce private storage aid for pigmeat to fight current low prices. Under the programme, pigmeat producers can claim EU aid when storing meat for between three and five months.…

BY MARK ROWE, in London, JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo, and RACHEL JONES, in Caracas

PERSONAL care products – soaps, cosmetics, lotions and hair products – have always been important consumers of vegetable and animal-based oils and fats. Yet, this is a complex sub-sector of the global oils and fats industry.…

BY MARK ROWE

OTHER member states of the European Union (EU) may have had reservations about the accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the once-exclusive EU euroclub, but such sentiments are not shared by the international cosmetics industry. With western European markets reaching a plateau of maturity, the real expansion and investment opportunities lie further east.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) standing committee on the food chain and animal health has lifted a virtual ban on exports to EU member states of meat and dairy products from Bulgaria. Unlike other eastern European countries joining the EU, Bulgaria had not requested additional time for meat and dairy producers to raise health standards to those required in other member states.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Commission officials are developing proposed standards insisting all cigarettes sold in the European Union (EU) should be self-extinguishing from 2010. The proposals should be released this autumn by new Bulgarian consumer affairs Commissioner Meglena Kuneva, and would – claim Brussels bureaucrats – prevent most smoking-related domestic fires, which kill around 2,000 EU citizens annually.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE STEREOTYPE of Europeans favouring public transport over private cars is deeply flawed according to a new European Commission-funded opinion poll that interviewed 25,767 people. Pollsters Gallup not only confirmed that private motor transport is the most widespread means of making journeys in the EU (53% of those polled drove rather than cycled, walked or took public transport), 22% of these motorists would not drive less, even with dramatic improvements to rail, bus, air and boat transport.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Commission officials have confirmed that they are developing proposed standards insisting all cigarettes sold in the European Union (EU) should be self-extinguishing from 2010. The proposals should be released this autumn by new Bulgarian consumer affairs Commissioner Meglena Kuneva, and would – claim Brussels bureaucrats – prevent most smoking-related domestic fires, which kill around 2,000 EU citizens annually.…