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The European Parliament is grappling with the fallout of the Qatargate’ cash-for-influence corruption scandal. Greek socialist MEP Eva Kaili has been replaced as the parliament’s vice-president by a Luxembourg socialist, after Kaili was arrested by Brussels police. Officers allege they found EUR1.5 million cash at her home and that of former MEP Pier Antonio Panzeri, another socialist, from Italy.…

The collapse of crypto-trading platform FTX and its associated hedge fund Alameda Research may help spark the creation of a global regulatory regime to monitor crypto-currency exchanges. Keith Nuthall reports.

The FTX Group’s November 11 filing for US Chapter 11 bankruptcy sent shockwaves through the global crypto-currency market and should encourage the development of international regulation to control this unstable industry.…

Sugar production and consumption are being targeted for spending in new national Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) plans approved by the European Commission as part of a new process to secure European Union (EU) food production funding. With EUR53 billion spent in 2022 alone, this is the EU’s largest spending programme.…

The European Union’s (EU) new ‘Women on Boards’ directive (1) is designed to force change in the EU’s director cohort by requiring that the ‘under-represented sex’ (which could be male on rare female-dominated boards) make up 40% of non-executive directors or 33% of all major company directors.…

A cost-of-living crisis in Tunisia, where annual inflation rose to 9.8% in November is pushing Tunisian academics to emigrate, with Saudi Arabian universities being a significant draw – offering better salaries and research opportunities.

The country has been suffering from political turmoil and related economic disruption since President Kais Saied dissolved parliament and started ruling by decree in July 2021.…

With the Bank of England predicting Britain will be mired in recession until 2024 H2, the country’s clothing industry has been left considering how much worse this UK slump will be because of Brexit. The central bank has been focusing on more recent challenges – saying that “high energy prices and materially tighter financial conditions” (through interest rate increases fighting inflation) “will weigh on spending”.…

WORLDWIDE inflation is impacting the can making industry and its supply chain partners. Indeed, metal packaging prices have risen by at least 25% this year, according to industry association FoodDrinkEurope. A key reason has been soaring prices for energy used in manufacture, up more than 50% in 2022 according to the World Bank.…

WHEN European energy experts consider the future of hydrogen as an energy source, assessments sound remarkably like comments made about wind or solar power in the late 1990s – it is a great idea, but it would help if production and processing were less expensive.…

The European textile industry is already working more sustainably but can do better, said Charlotte Denis, communications officer for the European Technology Platform for the Future of Textiles and Clothing (ETP). Her comments are particularly valid as the platform is a key partner in the new two-year research project CISUTAC (Circular and Sustainable Textiles and Clothing – www.cisutac.eu),…

A key question in any industry is to what extent robotics will be able to replace the human hand. This issue is especially pertinent for textiles and clothing – where sensor-based automation increasingly carries out human tasks such as assessing the feel of textiles and quality control.…