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BY ALAN OSBORN

It is a testimony to the continuing power of the American marketplace, even in today’s multi-polar world, that the USA’s controversial Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) has so much influence. Indeed, by key US trade partners adopting many of its provisions themselves, the act is going global and threatening to turn the world of international tax management upside down.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE ORGANISATION for Economic Commerce & Development (OECD) has released a stinging indictment of France’s inaction over fighting the bribery of foreign public officials. A report by the OECD working group on bribery noted only five convictions – one under appeal – have been secured in 12 years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded research consortium is developing the first tuberculosis vaccine based on mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes TB. Switzerland’s medicines authority Swissmedic has now authorised clinical trials in healthy adult volunteers. The project has been financed funded through the through the NEWTBVAC project, which has received Euro EUR12 million from the EU,and it has been coordinated by the TuBerculosis Vaccine Initiative (TBVI), a collaborative Europe-based consortium developing new TB medicines.…

BY ROBERT STOKES

ANNUAL funding support for nuclear research is expected to rise 14.9% on average under the European Union’s (EU) planned Horizon 2020 programme, European Commission officials have told World Nuclear News.

The figures came in response to detailed questions on aid comparability of programmes and spend over time to the office of Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, the EU research, innovation and science Commissioner.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

A MAJOR six-year reconstruction and modernisation of Orly airport in Paris involving investment of Euro EUR400-450 million has been announced by the operator Aéroports de Paris (ADP). The project will include the merger of the two existing terminals, Orly South and Orly West, the construction of a brand new international departure lounge and the complete redevelopment of all the terminal entrances, amounting to 100,000 square metres of new reception areas for passengers.…

BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) auto sector risks experiencing the meltdown that hit the American industry in 2008-9 if EU political institutions keep imposing detailed new regulations and free trade deals, Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne told a Brussels conference yesterday.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

THE NEW vice-chancellor of Bangladesh’s Asian University for Women (AUW) has told University World News how she plans to help her institution move forward after management disputes sparked negative publicity. Fahima Aziz was appointed four months ago and is focusing on securing quality academics and attracting more students to the university’s temporary campus in Chittagong.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

BRITAIN’S Crown Dependencies (CDs) – the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man – have always been tricky customers for the world’s anti money laundering authorities to get a fix on. This shows up in the approach taken by the European Commission to them in its so-called anti-money laundering (AML) ‘white list’."…

BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS

THERE is no more need to test healthy livestock in Britain, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands and Spain to be 95% sure they are not affected by Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), a scientific report from by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has recommended.…

BY ROBERT STOKES

PLASTICS moulds made in half the time and at two-thirds of the current price suddenly look more than a dream to European mould-makers battling against tough price competition, particularly from the far east.

The European Commission recently reported the success of Foinmoulds, a Euro EUR1.2 million European Union (EU)-funded R&D project to increase productivity and efficiency of injection processes by integrating metallic foams into moulds.…