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TÜRKIYE DAIRY PRODUCTION FALLS AS INDUSTRY STRUGGLES WITH INFLATION AND DEPRECIATING LIRA

Türkiye is one of the top 10 milk producers worldwide, according to the Turkish National Dairy Council (Ulusal Süt Konseyi - USK) but the country’s dairy sector has been impacted over the past two years by high inflation and the depreciation of the Turkish lira (1). Production is slowly rebounding, with demand driven by the country’s growing population and new export markets.  

“Until the Covid pandemic the dairy sector was growing really well, then it started to decrease due to inflation and other issues, and has not really recovered,” said Shirley Kaston, co-founder of the Kök Projekt, a food start-up accelerator and consultancy in Istanbul.  
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EU LAWMAKERS GREENLIGHT BRUNA SZEGO FOR AMLA CHAIR



The European Parliament has given Italy’s Bruna Szego the green light to chair the European Union’s (EU) Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) (1) in a vote today (December 18) in Strasbourg, France. The vote, by a huge majority of 569 votes in favour, 20 against, and 61 abstentions, mirrored the endorsement given two days earlier in the EP committees on economic and monetary affairs (ECON) and civil liberties, justice and home affairs (LIBE), a month after they selected Szego for the job (2).…

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ITALY’S BRUNA SZEGO TO CHAIR NEW EUROPEAN AML AUTHORITY



Italian Bruna Szego is set to chair the European Union’s (EU) new Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA) (1) following a vote by two key European Parliament committees. The vote to back the only woman on the three-person shortlist to head the new Frankfurt-based AMLA, followed a three-hour closed-door hearing in Strasbourg, France with the committees on economic and monetary affairs (ECON) and civil liberties, justice and home affairs (LIBE).…

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EU EDUCATION MINISTERS GIVE CAUTIOUS WELCOME TO EUROPEAN DEGREE



European Union (EU) education ministers and university experts have argued this week the creation of a European degree could boost cooperation between higher education institutions (HEIs), but that more work is needed to make it successful.

Pia Ahrenkilde Hansen, the European Commission’s director general for education, told EU education ministers (https://video.consilium.europa.eu/event/en/27718

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CHEESE-LOVING CZECHS EXPAND ADDED-VALUE DAIRY MARKET AND INDUSTRY



A strengthening domestic cheese market is expanding capacity for Czechia dairy manufacturers, who may use this additional production to boost export sales. Czechia may be a small European country but it is a significant cheese exporter, with more than half its cheese production sold abroad, according to Jiří Kopáček, of the Czech-Moravian Dairy Association (ČMSM).…

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EU HITS CHINA-BUILT BEVS WITH TARIFFS UP TO 35.3% OVER STATE SUBSIDIES



The European auto sector is uneasy about the 35.3% countervailing duties that the European Union (EU) has imposed on China-built BEVs on top of the standard 10% import tariff. While they were imposed in response to what the EU executive, the European Commission, claims are unfair state subsidies throughout Chinese supply chains that undercut the bloc’s own European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) has declined to comment.…

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EU CRIME FIGHTERS AND PROSECUTORS SMASH FAKE ART NETWORK



An Italian-led investigation, supported by the European Union (EU) prosecutor and judiciary agency Eurojust, has smashed a network responsible for forging and selling 2,000 works of contemporary art, from artists including Banksy, Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso. In what Eurojust, said (1) was “an unprecedented operation”, involving Belgian, French and Spanish authorities, 38 suspects accused of involvement in a cross-border fake art network have been charged in Italy with conspiracy to forge and dealing in forged art. …

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EU CRIME FIGHTERS AND PROSECUTORS SMASH FAKE ART NETWORK



agency Eurojust, has smashed a network responsible for forging and selling 2,000 works of contemporary art, from artists including Banksy, Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso. In what Eurojust, said (1) was “an unprecedented operation”, involving Belgian, French and Spanish authorities, 38 suspects accused of involvement in a cross-border fake art network have been charged in Italy with conspiracy to forge and dealing in forged art. …

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FRENCH WEALTH TAX WILL NOT MAKE BUSINESSES FLEE FRANCE, GOVERNMENT INSISTS



French government plans for special “exceptional and temporary” taxes on the highest earning individuals and companies with the largest turnover will not make those targeted flee France, an aide close to budget minister Laurent Saint-Martin stressed to Accounting & Business.

The draft budget law (PLF) 2025 (1) was unveiled on October 10 by Saint-Martin (a member of the Rennaissance centrist bloc backing President Emmanuel Macron) and finance minister Antoine Armand (also from Rennaissance) before the French lower house of parliament, the National Assembly.…

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EU/WTO REGULATORY ROUND UP – NEW EU FOOD POLICY DUE WITHIN 100 DAYS OF NEW EUROPEAN COMMISSION TAKING OFFICE



A new European Union (EU) Commissioner for agriculture and food has been told to draft an EU Vision for Agriculture and Food within 100 days of taking office, expected on December 1. Luxembourger Christophe Hansen takes on this key role in the second European Commission of president Ursula von der Leyen, which will work until 2029.…

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