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BY MARK ROWE
LEADING insurance associations have welcomed a recent agreement between the European Union (EU) and Russia that will liberalise the Russian insurance industry. At a summit in Moscow involving Russian President Vladimir Putin and European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, the EU and Russia struck a detailed cooperation agreement on a range of economic and trade issues.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
THERE are not many countries left on the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) blacklist of dodgy jurisdictions regarding money laundering regulations, and one of the last stragglers – the South Pacific nation of the Cook Islands (a New Zealand dependency) – was provisionally removed in February.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
Two new schemes aimed at resolving the differences between the European Union and the US over the posting of collateral by non-American re-insurers in the US market are to be considered by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) of the US at its summer meeting in Boston June 11-14th.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels
A RADICAL change in the fishing year political calendar is being planned by the European Commission, which hopes to introduce a new system in 2007, Fisheries Commissioner Dr Joe Borg told Fishing News last week.

Speaking in an exclusive and wide-ranging interview, he expressed impatience with the traditional timing of the fishing quota-setting schedule, which annually inflicts an unnecessary crisis management on both the sector and governments alike before every Christmas.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BUCKFAST, the tonic wine that has been attacked by Scottish ministers for promoting teenage drunkenness is facing another political challenge, this time at the hands of bureaucrats in Brussels. The European Parliament is due to consider a directive on enriching food and drink with vitamins and other substances, that would – if passed unchanged – make Buckfast’s existing recipe illegal, along with those of other British tonic wines.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament looks unlikely to heed the concerns about the erosion of client confidentiality by European Union (EU) money laundering legislation, with its key civil liberties committee strengthening lawyers’ duties to inform the authorities about suspicious dealings.…

BY RICHARD HURST
THE SOUTH African paint and coatings industry is in a state of change as a shift in focus towards overseas markets coupled with a need to protect local markets is pushing manufacturers to reassess their quality and production volume capabilities.…

BY LIZ HALL
A PROFUSION of family-run businesses, corrupt and under-resourced authorities and low wages has traditionally meant much commercial crime goes undetected in Latin America. But the tide is turning, with more and more companies unwilling to turn a blind eye to fraud, bribery and counterfeit goods production.…

BY MARK ROWE
IN the days of the Soviet Union, Russians would make jokes about the shades of “concrete” grey available for any internal redecorating you planned to do. No longer. Disposable incomes are higher, so Russians are discovering DIY, while a vast face-lift has been given to many of the country’s cities and towns.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
ASK the average motorist to identify which automotive technologies have advanced the most in recent years, and very few would mention coatings and finishings. Certainly, when it comes to innovation, carmakers are eager to promote new developments in performance, economy and safety.…