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THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has agreed to back reinforcing checks of all persons entering or leaving the EU, including of EU citizens, to reduce the risk of visitors promoting terrorism.

“We have to determine whether they form a threat to our safety or not,” said Klaas Dijkhoff, the Netherlands’ minister for migration following a February 25 meeting of the EU council for justice and home affairs.…

EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have told the European Commission to devise detailed assistance measures to help European pigmeat producers, following a debate at the EU Council of Ministers for agriculture yesterday (March 14).

A communiqué said that the Council and Commission had agreed to “take decisive actions without delay” building on the EUR500 million aid package for farmers approved last September (2015).…

THE COMMITTEE of European Sugar Users (CIUS) has called on the European Union (EU) to take urgent action to prevent EU confectionery and sweet bakery manufacturers facing a sugar supply crunch this summer. In a strongly worded message, the industry group has said that duties and levies should not be imposed on supplies of beet and cane sugar and the EU’s cane sugar ‘CXL’ duty should be scrapped immediately.…

THE EUROPEAN Association of Sugar Pro­ducers (CEFS) and the European Federation of Trade Unions in the Food, Agriculture and Tourism sectors (EFFAT) have called for the European Union (EU) to push for a global agreement ending all subsidies and other trade-distorting policies affecting the sugar sector.…

The European Union (EU) is struggling to resolve deep political divisions over whether a future diligence scheme to prevent conflict minerals hitting Europe’s shores should be mandatory or voluntary and over the influence that industry should have on the system’s operation. …

The Netherlands meat sector is delighted that its beef and veal industry has won US government approval to export to America, after being blocked since 1998, when Washington imposed a ban on all European Union (EU) beef and veal exports because of BSE.…

Africa’s largest carrier, Ethiopian Airlines, is to have a EUR110 million world-class cargo terminal built to boost its freight handling capacity by fourfold – a move that will confirm Ethiopia’s position as Africa’s main trans-shipment destination.

The new cargo hub, which is being designed by German engineering firm Unitechnik Group, will be the size of five football grounds and be able to shift 600,000 tonnes of freight a year at the Addis Ababa Bole International Airport.…

A COMPREHENSIVE legislative initiative launched by the European Commission on January 28, designed to restrict tax avoidance – especially by multinationals within the European Union (EU) – is likely to be influenced by the raw politics of the upcoming UK in-out referendum on EU membership.…

A European Parliament probe into the dieselgate scandal kicked off yesterday (March 2) with a row over how far the year-long probe should go in finger-pointing at the car industry. For the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP), the European Parliament’s largest political group, Latvian MEP Krišjānis Kariņš warned the new Committee of Inquiry into Emission Measurements in the Automotive Sector (EMIS): “The EPP will do its utmost to prevent this committee from becoming what could be termed as a witch hunt either against industry or against diesel technologies where Europe has a competitive advantage in the world.”…

The European Union (EU) is considering adopting methods used by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) through staging secret tests to check in service cars for type approval compliance. A hearing today (February 23) at the European Parliament’s (EP) key environment, public health and food safety committee learned that with test contents kept secret, automakers cannot design and fit cheat devices to subvert controls.…