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BY KEITH NUTHALL
EASTERN Caribbean governments and the European Commission have launched talks to strike a bi-regional trade deal that would especially ease the import of Caribbean sugar and bananas into the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and 16 Caribbean countries have launched negotiations to strike a trade deal by 2008, that should boost Jamaican bauxite exports into Europe. The mineral is already the eastern Caribbean’s largest non-food export to the EU, (eight per cent of all the region’s foreign sales being aluminium-related products – worth around Euro 223 million in 2003).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has admitted Mozambique to the EU’s sugar market access agreement with producing countries in the African-Caribbean-Pacific (ACP) block.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has agreed guaranteed prices for sugar traded with India and its ACP (Africa, Caribbean, Pacific) partners until June 2005. They are for raw sugar: Euro 52.37/100 kilograms; and white sugar: Euro 64.65/100 kilograms.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HIGH-PROFILE European Commission whistleblower Paul van Buitenen will reveal a litany of European Union (EU) scandals and corruption cases when he releases his programme this month for the oncoming European elections. Exploiting rules that allow European Commission officials to stand for the parliament and make detailed election statements, van Buitenen is publishing a book ‘In the Trenches of Brussels’ on April 28, which will officially be his election manifesto.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WATER utilities involved in development work overseas can now tap a Euro 1 billion budget approved last week (22-3) by the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers, earmarked for water and sanitation projects in African, Caribbean and Pacific island developing countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WATER utilities involved in development work overseas can now tap a Euro 1 billion budget approved last week (22-3) by the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers, earmarked for water and sanitation projects in African, Caribbean and Pacific island developing countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CELEBRATED European Commission whistleblower Paul Van Buitenen has launched his own slate of candidates for the June 10 European Parliament elections. Called Europa Transparant, and standing in his native Netherlands, the party had hoped to be boast the candidature of former Commission chief accountant Marta Andreason, although she has now pulled out citing family reasons.…

BY MARK WILSON
AWASH with recently-passed legislation and newly-established Financial Investigation Units, the small nations of the Caribbean have transformed their money laundering controls since the mid-1990s. In 2000, five Caribbean island jurisdictions made up one-third of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) list of fifteen non-cooperative countries and territories, each of them with ‘serious systemic problems,’ in the words of a FATF review published on June 22 of that year.…

BY KEITN NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN parliamentarian has called for his institution to stop producing 3.5 million sheets of printed paper every week. This amounts to each MEP using more than 1,000 sheets every day in Brussels and Strasbourg. Dutch socialist member Michiel Van Hulten has called for a significant reduction, especially as printed agenda, minutes and memos are irregularly recycled.…