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BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) member states and the European Commission are squaring up ahead of a political battle this autumn over anticipated energy liberalisation proposals. A letter from France, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Latvia, Luxembourg and Slovakia has been written to the Commission stating their firm opposition to comprehensive energy unbundling in anticipated proposed European Union (EU) legislation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

HEALTH officials have supervised the destruction of 27,528 broiler chickens at a poultry farm in the central Czech Republic, in a devastating outbreak of bird flu. Following confirmation of the disease at Norin, Usti nad Orlici, Pardubický province, movement controls were imposed on poultry farmed in the region, along with disinfection and quarantine of the birds on the affected farm.…

BY BILL CORCORAN, in Dublin

THE REPUBLIC of Ireland’s economic growth over the past 15 years has been hailed as one of the success stories of the western world economies; however, in tandem with its economic growth commercial crime has also surfaced at an alarming rate.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the proposed acquisition by Eni of Italy of Esso Ceska and Esso Slovensko, who supply jet fuel to Prague and Bratislava airports. Acting as the European Union competition regulator, a Commission inquiry concluded it was “highly unlikely” the merged group would use its wholesale muscle to “close off supply” to retail competitors.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DIFFERENTIALS in car prices between the 27 member states of the European Union (EU) persist, the latest showroom survey by the European Commission reveals. While prices in the UK fell by 0.3% from January to July this year, fleet managers looking for bargains would still do well to look abroad, as British prices are often well above the EU average.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

LATVIA has joined the growing alliance of eastern European countries taking the European Commission to the European Court of Justice (ECJ), challenging what they regard as miserly carbon allowances within the European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). Riga has joined Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Estonia in opposing their allocations by Brussels for emissions between 2008 and 2012.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A COMPREHENSIVE genetic research project aimed at reducing obesity launched by the European Union (EU) is examining the DNA of more than 13,000 individuals to devise a long-term dietary anti-obesity plan in eight European countries. The EU-funded DiOGenes (Diet, Obesity and Genes) project is studying the dietary, genetic, physiological and psychological factors behind obesity, so that more sophisticated food control policies can be developed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MINIMUM excise duty rates for alcohol across the European Union (EU) look set to rise by 4.5%, with the European Parliament’s economic and monetary affairs committee yesterday (Wednesday 27/6) backing a compromise deal negotiated with EU member states by EU taxation Commissioner Lázló Kovács.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MINIMUM excise duty rates for alcohol across the European Union (EU) look set to rise by 4.5%, with the European Parliament’s economic and monetary affairs committee yesterday (Wednesday 27/6) backing a compromise deal negotiated with EU member states by EU taxation Commissioner Lázló Kovács.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
ONE consequence of the growing sophistication of anti-money laundering procedures at the major banks in Europe in recent years is that criminals have turned increasingly to less regulated channels such as bureaux de change and money service businesses to hide criminal proceeds.…