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ESA LAUNCHES POLAR WEATHER SATELLITES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Space Agency (ESA) has announced a new launch date for the first of a network of three meteorological satellites that will gather data in a polar orbit, providing crucial weather information. MetOp satellites will be launched on October 7 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, and will provide data until 2020.…
MACEDONIA RAISES GAME ON MONEY LAUNDERING CONTROLS
BY ALAN OSBORN
CONSIDERING everything against it – a turbulent political history since the break-up of Yugoslavia, a weak, cash-based and largely ‘grey’ economy, poor living standards and feeble inflows of foreign investment among other things – Macedonia has done very well to set up a relatively impressive slew of anti money laundering legislation in recent years.…
POLAND PAINT INDUSTRY FEATURE - SECTOR STRUGGLES WITH EU RULES
BY MARK ROWE
ACCESSION to the European Union (EU), with its attendant necessity to comply with environmental directives, along with a surprising surge in water-based coatings, have combined to make the past year an eventful one for the Polish paint industry.…
FEE EUROPEAN COMMISSION ACCRUAL ACCOUNTING CONFERENCE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEMBER states of the European Union (EU) have been encouraged at a European Federation of Accountants (FEE) sponsored-conference in Brussels to follow in the European Commission’s footsteps and adopt accrual accounting practices. EU budget Commissioner Dalia Grybauskaite told the ‘Modernising accounting in the Public Sector – Exchange of Experience’ conference that the system, now largely installed at the Commission, offered national governments major benefits.…
EU PREPARES TO LAUNCH ALCOHOL CONTROL POLICIES IN AUTUMN
BY ALAN OSBORN
CURRENT European Union (EU) president Finland will this year urge fellow member states to raise the political profile of alcohol across Europe as a threat to public health, bringing in specific measures to curb abuses. Its views are particularly important this year, because the European Commission is buffing up just such a plan for release in September or October, and the Finns will be pushing or agreement at the EU Council of Ministers in December.…
BRITISH FARMER IN CANADA FEATURE
BY MONICA DOBIE, in Balderson, Ontario
STRONG family links and a dislike of European Union bureaucracy was what brought David James, 62, to Canada to start over again. In 1998, the James family, including wife Ann, 61, daughter Debra, 39, and son-in law Rob, 39, packed up their belongings and moved to a small farming community called Balderson, roughly 50 miles from Canada’s capital, Ottawa.…
EU FRAMES SILICON CARBIDE DUTIES FOR CHINA, ABANDONS TARIFFS FOR RUSSIA, UKRAINE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed re-imposing 52.6% anti-dumping duties on exports into the European Union (EU) of silicon carbide from China, while suggesting they are lifted for Russia and the Ukraine. Following a review into duties in place – at least formally – since 1986 – Brussels concluded for China, exporters were continuing to dump the processed mineral, and that "there is no reason to believe that this behaviour would change."…
EU GREENLAND COOPERATION DEAL EXPANDED TO MINERAL RESOURCES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is to expand its existing partnership agreement with Greenland beyond fish, to include the exploitation of the Danish autonomous territory’s wealthy mineral reserves. Greenland has proven deposits of gold, diamonds, rubies, molybdenum, nickel and other resources and furthermore, its deep ice cap is thinning through global warming, posing opportunities and dangers for prospectors.…
EIB INVESTS HEAVILY IN SPAIN WIND POWER
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has unveiled plans to lend up to Euro 727.50 million to build up to 30 wind farms in Spain, with a combined capacity of around 900 MWe. These medium and large scale wind farms would be set up this year and next in economically hard pressed areas across Spain, classed by the European Union (EU) as ‘Objective 1’ and so eligible for various EU regional aid programmes.…
EU GREENLAND COOPERATION DEAL EXPANDED TO MINERAL RESOURCES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is to expand its existing partnership agreement with Greenland beyond fish, to include the exploitation of the Danish autonomous territory’s wealthy mineral reserves. Greenland has proven deposits of gold, diamonds, rubies, molybdenum, nickel and other resources and furthermore, its deep ice cap is thinning through global warming, posing opportunities and dangers for prospectors.…