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BY MARK ROWE
IN times of conflict, cultural property, such as archaeological sites, works of art, museums and monuments, can also suffer grievously at the hands of opposing military and guerrilla forces. In recognition of this, such objects are accorded protection by the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD’S premier anti-corruption organisation Transparency International, has again hailed northern Europe as the region most free of graft, bribes and kickbacks. Such financial crime is rarest in Iceland, says the 2005 corruption rankings from the German group, with Finland and New Zealand tying at second place, Denmark, fourth, Sweden sixth, and Norway eighth.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GREEN Paper on improving services promoting mental health across the European Union (EU) has been published by the European Commission, which claims 27% of all EU adults suffer from such problems, annually. It says Brussels will consult with EU national governments on creating an action plan boosting mental health services and also collect more data at a European level, monitoring trends and identifying best practice.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
ON July 31 this year the European Union’s (EU) Tobacco Advertising Directive came into effect, making it illegal to advertise tobacco products in the print media, radio and over the Internet within the EU. Also banned was tobacco sponsorship of cross-border cultural and sporting events.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
POLITICAL pressure is being piled onto European Union (EU) member states to release more information about how they spend EU-funded grants and subsidies from the Euro 110 billion EU budget. In a long-awaited ‘European Transparency Initiative’, EU anti-fraud Commissioner Siim Kallas has proposed discussions with national governments about ” a legal obligation to publish information about projects and end beneficiaries of funds under shared management”, between member states and Brussels.…

Keith Nuthall
A HEALTHY-DOSE of Nordic culture has been prescribed by the world’ premier anti-corruption organisation Transparency International, which has again hailed northern Europe as the region most free of graft, bribes and kickbacks. Such financial crime is rarest in Iceland, says the 2005 corruption rankings from the German group, with Finland and New Zealand tying at second place, Denmark, fourth, Sweden sixth, and Norway eighth.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has voted to exclude natural sunlight from a new European Union (EU) optical radiation health and safety directive issue to be regulated by national governments. In a plenary session, the parliament supported centre-right amendments restricting the legislation to artificial sources of radiation by 397 votes for, 269 against.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have been asked to approve Finland’s re-imposing restrictions on cheap personal beer imports from Russia, preventing a cross-border sales boom. EU law says private travellers can import up to 200 litres from non-EU states, but Finland has restricted imports to six litres/traveller since 2000.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to allow Finland to re-impose restrictions on the beer that its citizens can import from Russia, because of fears of runaway cross-border sales. Under EU directive 69/169/EEC, private travellers would normally be entitled to import 200 litres of beer from third countries into Finland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THAT criminals abuse the insurance industry is nothing new for a sector routinely screening claims for hints of fraud. However, its managers have proved far less alert to the risk of it being exploited by money launderers and terrorist financers, a new detailed report has claimed.…