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BY PHILIPPA JONES, LEE ADENDOORF, E. BLAKE BERRY, SYMON ROSS, MONICA DOBIE and KEITH NUTHALL

CONSUMER issues have been a key focus of European Union (EU) initiatives regarding utilities of late. The European Commission’s Citizens’ Energy Forum has been busy, recently focusing on improving billing practices, promoting good practice and calling for "clearer, more understandable and accurate bills".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NEW options for UK auto-dealers will come on stream as Europe’s economy recovers thanks to Euro 600 being sunk into production in Sweden and Morocco by the European Investment Bank (EIB).

It has been channelling money towards automakers this year to help them stay afloat in the recession.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed letting fishing crews from Germany, France, Poland and Spain avoid detailed cod catch controls and potentially time-consuming statistical declarations for catches in the North Sea and off western Scotland. Brussels wants European Union (EU) ministers to allow selected groups of vessels to avoid following special fishing effort rules imposed by the EU’s 2008 regulation 1342/2008 on cod stock conservation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ITALIAN luxury fashion house Brioni is launching a fragrance in London today (Oct 14), as its new CEO Andrea Perrone pushes ahead with expansion plans, especially in Asia. Perrone, nephew of company founder Gaetano Savini, assumed control of the company this July from a governing committee (which served upon).…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

THE INDIAN government is launching a campaign to attract foreign investment from Europe for its textile and clothing industry. On October 26, its textiles minister Dayanidhi Maran along with a business delegation will make a nine-day visit to Switzerland, Italy and Turkey, followed by another trip to Germany and France in November.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

BOTH the strengths and the weaknesses of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in the anti-money laundering field derive from its role as the supreme interpreter of European Union (EU) law and its responsibility for applying that law consistently through the Union.…

BY KARRYN MILLER, KEITH NUTHALL and ALAN OSBORN

DESPITE following the global trend of increasing anti-smoking campaigns and placing stronger warning labels on cigarette packets, tobacco sales in South Korea are not declining. In fact, the industry has seen a slow but steady rise in total sales over the last few years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

GENERAL Motors wastes Euro 9.8 billion’s worth of environmental and social costs compared to a notional industry average, a new international assessment on auto industry sustainability has claimed. This follows the largest such statistical exercise ever undertaken, carried out by experts from Queen’s University, Belfast, in Northern Ireland; the Euromed Management School, Marseilles, France; and the Institute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment (IZT), Berlin.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AS Barack Obama wrestles with the challenge of pushing healthcare reform through the US Congress, he could create political capital by highlighting the need to fight fraud in the sector. Keith Nuthall reports.

IT is something of a sacred cow.…

By Paul Cochrane

In an age of mass migration on a global scale, is it possible for governments to impose on the public, particularly immigrants, what they can and cannot wear? Take the diktats on women’s wear in France versus Iran.…