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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is planning to press ahead with technical preparations for a potentially controversial move to create a common consolidated corporate tax base for European Union (EU) companies.

In a report, it said that detailed plans needed to be drawn up for member states to make a political decision on whether to back the idea or not.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ROMANIA is desperate to join the European Union (EU) but it remains unclear whether that desperation extends to clamping down on business crime, one of the key obstacles that Romania must overcome to gain entry to the club.…

BY KENCHO WANGDI, in Thimphu, Bhutan

WHAT is happiness, really? In conventional development theory, it equals money and prosperity, as measured by GNP (Gross National Product).

But Bhutan, the famously remote and beautiful Buddhist kingdom in the Himalayas, has been trying out a different concept.…

BY KENCHO WANGDI, in Thimphu, Bhutan

WHAT is happiness, really? In many developed nations such as in the US and Europe it is equated with money and prosperity.

Economists use GNP (Gross National Product) as representing the well-being of a nation, on the belief that material development, as measured by GNP growth, is correlated to human happiness.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

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FOUR highly diverse collections have made it through to the shortlist for the prestigious Gulbenkian Prize for museums and galleries. Brunel’s SS Great Britain at Bristol; The Collection – Lincoln’s new museum of art and archaeology; the new underground gallery at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in Wakefield; and the modernised galleries for the medical collection at the Hunterian Museum in London are now competing for the GBPounds 100,000 prize and the kudos that goes with it.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

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LEADING British museums, including the Natural History Museum, the Victoria & Albert and the Tate Modern, are to receive government grants for energy saving and carbon reduction schemes, cultural and learning programmes under a GBPounds 12 million allocation from the Treasury’s Invest to Save Budget scheme.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

The European Commission has published a set of recommendations designed to make it easier for economically sound small and medium-sized businesses to change ownership. Brussels estimates that a third of EU entrepreneurs will retire through old age within the next ten years.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in London

EUROPEAN and US regulatory bodies have agreed to co-operate to develop common testing and engineering standards for mobile air conditioning systems such as those used in automobiles. Because some of the gases used in these systems, such as HFC 134a, are far more lethal to the environment than carbon dioxide, the European Union (EU) has agreed to start phasing them out in 2011 and stop using them in new autos from 2017.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

The Brussels plan to impose anti dumping duties on shoes imported into the EU from China and Vietnam has sharply divided EU governments with as many as ten of the 25 member states voting against it in the EU’s anti-dumping committee this week.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE EUROPEAN Medicines Agency (EMEA) stands ready to help pharmaceutical companies in the development and marketing of new drugs in an effort to halt and reverse the decline in the number of new medicines being brought to the world market.…