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BY SUZANNE KOELEGA, in Sint Maarten, Netherlands Antilles, JAMES FULLER, in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, and KEITH NUTHALL

A MAJOR shake up is looming in the political organisation of the Caribbean, with the impending dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles federation, and the creation of separate political units for its composite islands Curaçao, Bonaire, Sint Maarten, Saba and Sint Eustatius (Statia).…

BY CHRIS JONES, in Brussels

ANOTHER major round of reforms to that most controversial of European Union (EU) programmes – the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) – are planned for 2008, but will the changes mean that life becomes easier or harder for European food companies?…

BY CHRIS JONES, in Paris

AUTO manufacturers in Europe are calling for greater support from national governments and European Union (EU) institutions in promoting eco-driving – where good motoring styles are adopted which reduce the greenhouse gas and other polluting emissions from vehicles.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A PROPOSED liberalisation of European Union (EU) design rights legislation, allowing car parts makers to copy and sell spares already made by vehicle manufacturers across the EU has been accepted by the European Parliament’s legal affairs committee. It said: "The directive will allow suppliers to produce motor vehicle components which are identical to the original parts without infringing design protection."…

BY MARK ROWE

THE CHOCOLATE and wider confectionary markets of the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe have been something of an investor’s dream in recent year with multinationals taking over smaller domestic companies, updating equipment and buying into a lucrative and growing market.…

BY KARRYN CARTELLE

THE SIGNING of a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between South Korea and the United States is expected to fuel an already booming seafood trade. And with the Koreans having a host of other FTAs in the works, it appears this seafood-producing nation will use free trade agreements to push its seafood products to every continent.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

RUSSIA’S food inspection agency hopes this weekend’s change in government in Poland will improve relations so that Moscow’s long-standing ban on Polish meat exports can be lifted. In a general election, the business-friendly Civic Platform party beat the outgoing insular nationalist government of the Law and Justice party, prompting a spokesman for Russia’s Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Inspection (Rosselkhoznadzor) to tell the ltar-Tass news agency: "If Poland’s new government makes a move toward constructive settlement of the problem of livestock products supply, we are ready to reciprocate."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE CREATION of a European Institute of Technology (EIT) is now anticipated, despite deep and persistent criticism of the idea from many European Union (EU) academics. The European Parliament in late September gave the project its qualified blessing and ministers from the EU’s 27 member states are now expected to cut a deal this autumn over finding Euro 308.7 million from European Commission budgets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE OUTCOME of the political struggle about this month’s (Sept) release of a comprehensive proposed package of European Union (EU) energy directives and regulations insisting on some unbundling between power producers and transmitters will test the EU’s ability to threaten core interests of national governments.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EVERY decade or so comes a technology that is so new, comprehensive, interesting, and damn useful, that it completely changes the way that we have fun and do business. Think commercial air travel, the mobile phone and the Internet…..these…