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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) is preparing to lend US$25 million to modernise and expand Armenia’s Kapan mine, which has substantial copper, zinc, silver and gold reserves. The money would go to operator the Deno Gold Mining Company, controlled by Canada’s Dundee Precious Metals Inc.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

IN an era when military intervention has been given a bad name through the Iraq morass, serving with the army, navy or air force might not be the immediate choice of many nurses as a career path which helps the needy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to approve a trade agreement with Canada giving its exporters the rights to send 1,000’s of tonnes of meat to EU markets. The deal incorporates annual import rights previously offered by the 10 countries that joined the EU in 2004, to be transformed into pan-EU access.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has warned of a continued boom in counterfeits of clothing and accessory products entering the European Union (EU), with more than 10.9 million fake items seized by customs officials last year. This is 140% more than the numbers of seizures in 2004.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

RUSSIA President Vladimir Putin has signalled a tough fight with the European Union (EU) over a future energy deal as December 1 negotiations approach on renewing the existing EU-Russia Partnership and Cooperation Agreement.

Speaking after an informal EU heads of government summit, Putin stressed an agreement would not involve Russia accepting the terms of the unratified 1991 multilateral Energy Charter Treaty, agreed by Boris Yeltsin in 1991, and involving EU firms breaking Gazprom’s monopoly on Russian and Central Asian gas supplies and accessing Russia energy networks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched formal World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes proceedings with Canada over a discriminatory tax break for Canadian wine and beer producers. Under Canada’s 2006 budget proposals, excise duties on Canadian wine made from 100% Canadian-grown agricultural products and domestic beer would either be reduced or abolished, while excise tax remains on imported wine and beer.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has warned of a continued surge in counterfeits of perfumes and cosmetics entering the European Union (EU), with 694,633 fake products seized by customs officials last year. That said, this actually represents a fall in numbers from 2004, being 89% of the number seized in that year.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

AN AUDITOR-general report has criticised the Societé des Alcools du Québec (SAQ) one of Canada’s provincial liquor monopolies for illegally raising wine prices by almost 10% last year. A decrease in the value of the Euro against the Canadian dollar should have meant price cuts for consumers, but instead they paid CDN$8 million over a set pricing system, with the extra money going to provincial government coffers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CANADA, with Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, has successfully scuppered plans to place chrysotile asbestos on the ‘watch list’ of the United Nations’ Rotterdam Convention, which would have allowed importing countries to insist on prior consent before admitting any cargoes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has warned of a continued boom in counterfeits of clothing and accessory products entering the European Union (EU), with more than 10.9 million fake items seized by customs officials last year. This is 140% more than the numbers of seizures in 2004.…