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Keith Nuthall
EUROPEAN Union (EU) internal market Commissioner Frits Bolkestein has admitted that the proposed directive on reforming Europe’s audit oversight rules were tailored to dovetail with American regulations, as amended by the sometimes controversial Sarbanes Oxley Act.

Speaking at a Brussels power breakfast with the US Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) chairman Bill McDonough, the Dutch commissioner said in framing the EU reforms, his officials had reacted to Sarbanes Oxley, in a “constructive, cooperative way forward, jointly, respecting to the maximum degree possible our different legal traditions and cultures”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SURVEY by European Union (EU) market research organisation Eurobarometer has revealed that there is immense potential for growing Internet usage in southern Europe. A survey showed not only were 43 per cent of EU citizens still unconnected to the Internet, there were huge regional variations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SURVEY by European Union (EU) market research organisation Eurobarometer has revealed that there is immense potential for growing Internet usage in southern Europe. A survey showed not only were 43 per cent of EU citizens still unconnected to the Internet, there were huge regional variations.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, ALAN OSBORN and MARK ROWE
SENDING employees abroad or setting up overseas branches always take some preparation and maybe the most important job is taking care of workers’ health needs. Not only must local employment laws be followed, but companies must ensure that they can manage the alien health risks faced abroad.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GRANTS worth Euro 1.35 million have been awarded by the Dutch government to fund two new research centres carrying out multidisciplinary studies into the prevention, management and treatment of infectious diseases in the Netherlands and developing countries. The centres will be virtual institutions, recruiting researchers from around the country.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has approved a three-year supplementary research programme at the EU’s joint research centre high flux reactor, at Petten, the Netherlands. Funded largely by the Dutch government, the Euro 30.6 million studies should improve reactor safety, waste management and develop nuclear fuel unable to be transformed into weapon grade plutonium.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MOZAMBIQUE will be admitted to the European Union’s special sugar market access agreement with producing countries in the African-Caribbean-Pacific (ACP) block of (mostly) former colonies, following a European Commission inquiry into its sugar export industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MOZAMBIQUE will be admitted to the European Union’s special sugar market access agreement with producing countries in the African-Caribbean-Pacific (ACP) block of (mostly) former colonies, following a European Commission inquiry into its sugar export industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NETHERLANDS has restricted to 22,000 the number of working migrants it will accept from the 10 eastern and southern European countries joining the European Union (EU) this May. The announcement is the latest in a string of such caps imposed by existing EU Member States, (made by Austria, Belgium, France, Germany and Spain), ahead of the expansion of the union.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is investigating a proposed deal effectively allying the European Union’s (EU) two companies enriching uranium for the nuclear industry. Brussels fears the purchase by France’s Areva of a 50 per cent stake in the Enrichment Technology Company from German-Dutch-British Urenco could cut competition and raise nuclear fuel prices, given enrichment represents about 35 per cent of fuel production costs and seven per cent for nuclear electricity generally.…