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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A URANIUM and cobalt mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is too dangerous for workers and should remain closed, a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) assessment has concluded. UN officials have examined Shinkolobwe mine since a June collapse killing eight miners.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN the latest development of the Anheuser-Busch versus Budejovický Budvar battle, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled the Czech brewer has some protection where it had previously secured rights to the name Budweiser, and they subsequently lapsed.…

Keith Nuthall
AMERICAN newspapers are reporting that the United States has been rebuffed on a World Trade Organisation (WTO) case focusing on the Budweiser brand battle. Washington has been trying to get European Union (EU) geographical indication laws declared illegal under global intellectual property rules because they protected the use of the brand by Czech brewer Budejovický Budvar.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ECSTASY has become Britain’s number two illicit drug, overtaking amphetamines, warns a new European Union (EU) narcotics report alerting public health professional across Europe to increasing abuse of most recreational drugs. The best news highlighted by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) is that heroin use and new HIV infections are falling in western Europe, although they are increasing in many eastern European countries, such as the Baltic States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is to try and pump-prime the non-life insurance sector in the growing petro-economy of Azerbaijan. The bank thinks there is potential for significant growth in this market, given that non-life and life premiums together amount to less than 1% of GDP.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL AND ALAN OSBORN
THE TOP selling guidebook Lonely Planet is rather dismissive of San Marino, calling the world’s oldest republic and Europe’s third smallest state “a silly place”. True, there is a touch of the comic opera about this Italian-speaking enclave, with it spiffily unformed ceremonial guards and its reliance on sales of colourful stamps, but San Marino does have a significant financial sector, and so is of interest to anti-money laundering professionals.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is largely on track for a timely start to its emissions trading system on January 1, with the unconditional approval in late October of six more CO2 emission allocation plans, from Belgium, Estonia, Latvia, Luxembourg, Slovakia and Portugal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WINE producing countries amongst the European Union’s (EU) intake of new member states in May have received their first allocations of EU vineyard restructuring aid. The European Commission has earmarked the largest sum to Hungary, which receives Euro 10 million for 2004-5, followed by Slovenia at Euro 2.9 million, Slovakia Euro 2.8 million, Cyprus nearly Euro 2.4 million, the Czech Republic Euro 1.7 million and Malta Euro 171,000.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA has resisted calls at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) by its developing country competitors for special efforts to protect them from economic dislocation caused by January’s end of textile import quotas. Mauritius, Bangladesh, the Dominican Republic, Fiji, Madagascar, Sri Lanka and Uganda pushed at a WTO Council on the Trade in Goods for a WTO secretariat study identifying the likely problems and recommending solutions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SIX wine producing countries of the European Union’s (EU) intake of new member states in May have received their first allocations of EU vineyard restructuring aid. The European Commission has earmarked the largest sum to Hungary: Euro 10 million for 2004-5, followed by Slovenia at Euro 2.9 million, Slovakia 2.8 million, Cyprus nearly 2.4 million, the Czech Republic 1.7 million and Malta Euro 171,000.…