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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has frozen its partnership and cooperation negotiations with Russia over the Georgia conflict, just three months after the talks were launched following long delays. An emergency meeting of the EU Council of Ministers has ordered no meetings will take place with Moscow on the agreement until its "troops have withdrawn to the positions held prior to 7 August", prior to its short war with Georgia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

PART of an anticipated wave of European Union (EU) support for its eastern neighbours following the Georgia conflict, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is planning a USD$18 million long term loan to the Dutch-owned Efes Vitanta Brewery in Moldova.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN IN depth investigation into the planned acquisition of the Dutch manufacturer of food additive chemicals DSP by US equity company Arsenal, (which controls Velsicol Chemical Corporation), has been opened by the European Commission. Both companies make benzoic acid and sodium benzoate – which are widely used as preservatives in confectionery manufacture

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BY KEITH NUTHALL and ALAN OSBORN

ONE of the more colourful (and thankfully less deadly) aspects of Russia’s mini-war with Georgia in August was the simultaneous attach by hackers on Georgian Internet sites, especially those of its government.,

Ones of these were crashed by ‘denial of service’ attacks, where masses of data are sent to particular sites until they cannot handle the megabytes and closedown.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

THE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 attacks on the US resulted in a raft of regulations to curb terrorist financing, but seven years on Al Qaeda is still at large, has adapted to the new regulatory environment to raise funds, and morphed into an international terrorist Hydra.…

BY STEVEN SWINDELLS

SOUTH African restrictions on the import of Chinese textiles and clothing have not come to the rescue of the country’s ailing textile sector as effectively as had been hoped, Brian Brink, executive director of South African industry group Textile Federation (Texfed), has told just-style.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has challenged rulings by a World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) disputes settlement panel that it is breaking WTO rules simply by having a preferential tariff regime favouring Caribbean and African banana exporters over those from Latin America.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

SUSTAINABILITY has moved firmly to the top of the corporate agenda in the oils and fats sector following Unilever’s announcement in May that it intended to have all of its palm oil certified sustainable by 2015. By any measure this would be a bold pledge but coming from the world’s largest consumer of palm oil (Unilever takes 4% of total global production to make its food and cosmetic products) it serves additionally to raise the bar for others.…

BY KARRYN MILLER

FRITS Vranken, senior vice president for business development at Japan Tobacco International (JTI), has recently seen his role expanded since his 2006 appointment at JTI’s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Mr Vranken’s role changed at the start of 2008 to include corporate strategy, tobacco taxation and internal communications.…

BY ANDREW CAVE

ONE might suppose that scrapping the European Union’s (EU) restrictive block exemption legislation that helps big car manufacturers and hinders thousands of independent suppliers and garages wanting to repair their automobiles would be welcomed in the after-sales market.…