Search Results for: Climate change

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is planning to add water management and climate change concerns to the environment in general as a prior consideration for the development of European Union (EU) policies on farming, transport and industrial expansion. Brussels officials are drafting a green paper on the idea, open for consultation from this summer, with current EU president Germany pushing the idea.…

BY MARK ROWE
MEMBERSHIP of the European Union (EU) appears to represent something o a ‘promised land’ for the nations of the Balkans. A major sticking point for countries pushing for membership, though, is corruption, and in particular efforts to push through practical and applicable anti-fraud legislation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SEAFOOD species are often the ocean’s dustbins, finding nutrients in the particles and waste that filter down to the seabed, and as result they are very sensitive to contamination. This is of course a bigger issue in regions where coasts are heavily populated, causing municipal and industrial pollution, and so it is of little surprise that the European Union’s (EU) news agency the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is concerned with contamination of foodstuffs, including those harvested from the sea.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
HEADS of government of the European Union (EU) have taken a significant step towards world leadership in the climate battle by pledging themselves to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020 (from 1990 levels) and raising the total share of energy produced by renewables to 20% by the same date.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
LEGAL action has been launched by the European Commission against six European Union (EU) member states for not providing legally required greenhouse gas emission data. Luxembourg will be taken to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) over the issue; Estonia and Greece will receive final warnings about possible court action; and Bulgaria, Italy and Malta will receive initial legal warnings.…

BY MARK ROWE
ONE of the prime motivations for Japan Tobacco’s takeover of Gallaher Group was to help the company establish a presence in Western Europe, where it figures only slightly. But the most seismic effects of the takeover may well be felt in neighbouring Russia, the world’s third largest cigarette market, where two thirds of men and a third of women are smokers, prices are low despite hikes in excise duties, and the habit has little of the social stigma attached to it in the US and Britain.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in London
YOU think the European Union (EU) is like the US – one big uniform market where prices are roughly the same wherever you buy? It is after all, legally and officially named the ‘Single European Market’.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
PAINT and coatings manufacturers in the Asia Pacific region could be storing up trouble for themselves if they fail to grasp and act on the full implications of the European Union’s (EU) newly minted REACH system for classifying and labelling chemicals.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in London
YOU think the European Union (EU) is like the US – one big uniform market where prices are roughly the same wherever you buy? It is after all, legally and officially named the ‘Single European Market’.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IMPLEMENTATION of the European Union’s (EU) Third Money Laundering Directive by Trust and Company Service Providers (TCSPs) has given rise to a number of difficulties across the 27 EU member states, all of them related in some way to the key issue of identifying the beneficial owner of funds.…