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MONEY laundering through global shell companies could be better tackled with simple and inexpensive measures rather than revisions of complex anti-money laundering (AML) procedures, according to a senior Australian academic. “We don’t need more rules, we need better enforcement of existing rules,” said Prof Jason Sharman, co-author of ‘Global Shell Games: Experiments in Transnational Relations, Crime, and Terrorism’, due for release in April 2014.…

NURSING is always a challenging profession, but the chance to use life-saving health skills in the wake of natural disasters and civil conflicts is valuable to many nurses.

Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) tap a UK International Emergency Trauma Register (UKIETR) database established by UK-Med, which includes the details of nurses and doctors available to be flown into disaster zones where local health services have been overwhelmed.…

NORDIC nonwoven companies Suominen, Ahlstrom and Fibertex are fast emerging from the post-2008 economic downturn fitter and leaner. This follows five years of cost-cutting and market re-alignment projects that included unit divestments, strategic acquisitions, and increased use of automation to reduce costs and strengthen profitability.…

Energy ministers of smaller European Union (EU) countries said yesterday (Tuesday March 4) that they will not sacrifice the competitiveness of energy intensive industries such as steel-making when meeting proposed EU 2030 carbon emission targets.

 “Slovakia supports the aim of a single target for greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction,” said Dušan Petrík, state secretary in the country’s ministry of economy.…

THE EUROPEAN Parliament has approved a new target for CO2 emissions from cars in the European Union (EU) of 95g CO2/km in 2021, but the European Commission is already plotting tighter controls. Welcoming MEP’s vote, European Union (EU) climate action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard said: “It is clear that long-term clarity is important for the car industry.…

Control without constraint – EU’s e-money balance

Money flows constantly, always finding new, electronic channels. European legislators are hard at work on how to regulate rather than divert (much less stem) the tide of innovation. Robert Stokes reports on the current Fourth EU ML Directive proposals.…

“WHAT I’m doing now really is a dream job for me.” CFO Juraj Drahovský, 36, from Košice, in eastern Slovakia, is relishing the challenge of helping the RWE Group, one of Europe’s largest energy companies, become a leading player in the Croatian market.…

IRAN and Turkey are regional giants within the Middle East oilseeds sector, and while their industries have been performing the threat of political instability and unstable energy subsidies threaten their profits.

According to Bill Baker, foreign agricultural service analyst at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Turkey and Iran constitute the two “major producers of oilseed crops in the Middle East.”…

CANADIAN rapeseed oil and European olive oil stand to benefit the most from the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) concluded between the European Union (EU) and Canada last October (2013) experts predict.

The reason is that these are the two main products with major trade significance between the two when it comes to oils and fats, stressed an EU official.…

AUSTRALIA’S Lynas Corporation Ltd raised industry eyebrows late January by expressing confidence that lanthanum demand will grow robustly through to 2020, and at the same time declaring that it will not accept new orders for the light rare earth below USD15/kilogramme (kg). …