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Keith Nuthall
THE GERMAN government has banned the sale and distribution of a line of tights – “Strumpfhose Hilka – Passend für alle Größen” (Hilka tights – one size fits all), because of concerns that they contain potentially carcinogenic illegal azo-dyes, the European Commission has reported.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMAN and Austrian MEPs have signed a so-called ‘code of honour’ not to fiddle expenses by over-claiming for flights to Strasbourg and Brussels. Until now MEPs have been paid the costs of (often expensive) normal economy flight tickets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EURO 127.7 in German state aid – enabling Theo Müller GmbH & Co to expand a dairy plant in Leppersdorf, Saxony – has been approved by the European Commission.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is bankrolling the development of Kazakhstan’s oil and gas reserves, a key alternative supply for the European Union (EU). It wants to lend Tasbulat Ltd Euro 60 million to help develop three medium-sized oil and gas fields in Mangistau region, western Kazakhstan, producing up to 8,000 barrels/day in 2006; Tasbulat is owned by SNP Petrom, Romania’s national oil company.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HIGH-PROFILE European Commission whistleblower Paul van Buitenen has detailed the recent series of European Union (EU) scandals and corruption cases within a manifesto, issued to promote his campaign for election to the European Parliament on June 10. Exploiting rules that allow European Commission officials to stand for the parliament and make detailed election statements, van Buitenen’s manifesto is actually a German and Dutch language book ‘In the Trenches of Brussels’.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GERMAN government has warned the European Commission’s consumer product safety service RAPEX of a voluntary product recall by bedding supplier Espalma, because of the use of the toxin pentachlorophenol in some of its bed linen, duvet covers and pillows.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that a law governing the reimbursement of medical expenses paid by German civil servants breaks European Union (EU) fair trade treaty commitments because it insists that the prospect of success for such treatment must be higher when bought abroad than in Germany.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has backed a political case brought by the European Commission against Germany, designed to demonstrate a zero tolerance attitude towards the implementation of European Union (EU) energy liberalisation legislation. Judges censured Germany for being three years late in implementing the natural gas single market liberalisation directive approved in August 1998 with an implementation deadline of August 2000.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HIGH-PROFILE European Commission whistleblower Paul van Buitenen will reveal a litany of European Union (EU) scandals and corruption cases when he releases his programme this month for the oncoming European elections. Exploiting rules that allow European Commission officials to stand for the parliament and make detailed election statements, van Buitenen is publishing a book ‘In the Trenches of Brussels’ on April 28, which will officially be his election manifesto.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
PERSONNEL managers may well consider the European Court of Justice (ECJ) a somewhat austere body, constantly engaged in arcane institutional and corporate matters. Think again. It can well be argued that the ECJ has had a more direct impact on the lives and work of the European Union’s 380 million citizens, including of course those in Britain, than any other single organisation.…