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BY KEITH NUTHALL
DESPITE the woeful health record of the British food industry, Britain’s food consumers are the most trusting in Europe, says a new survey, compared with those in Denmark, Norway, Germany, Italy and Portugal. *http://www.trustinfood.org/…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DESPITE the woeful record of the British food industry regarding health, Britain’s food consumers are the most trusting in Europe, a new survey has suggested. Comparing UK attitudes to those in Denmark, Norway, Germany, Italy and Portugal, when asked if they felt 12 food products were “very safe” to eat, British consumers were the most optimistic in every case.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMANY has been formally asked by the European Commission to reform its ‘one-way’ drinks packaging deposit system. Brussels claims breaches of European Union freedom of trade rules through Berlin not introducing an effective collection system for non-reusable bottles and cans on which mandatory deposits of between Euro 0.25 and 0.50 are charged and which retailers are bound to return.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
JANUARY sales figures collated from across the European Union (EU) have shown trade picking up compared with 2003, with a 2.2 per cent increase showing a market improvement over weaker pre-Christmas sales, where a 0.4 per cent rise was recorded.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is prolonging its dispute with the United States at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over Washington’s assessment of benefits enjoyed by privatised steel companies from past public subsidies. Following a protracted WTO dispute, the US was last January (2003) ordered to reform its “change in ownership” methodology, through has justified countervailing duties protecting American steel producers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN has been given a relatively clean bill of health in the latest Transparency International corruption rankings, being viewed as joint-11th least-corrupt country in the world, sharing its billing with Canada and Luxembourg. Finland was the most honest place in which to do business said the pressure group’s survey, followed by Iceland and the Denmark plus New Zealand at joint third.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HAULIERS who unwittingly drive concealed goods into a European Union (EU) country are liable for the duty if a customs inspection reveals they have been duped into smuggling a high value cargo, the European Court of Justice has ruled.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AMONGST all European Union (EU) countries, Finland has the highest number of nurses and midwives per head of population, – 2,181 per 100,000 inhabitants – according to the recently released and latest available comparative figures. EU statistical agency Eurostat said that these 1998-2000 figures showed Portugal as having the least nurses and midwives (379 per 100,000) and Greece the second worst performer (391).…

BY ALAN OSBORN
MANY professions are engaged in the war against money laundering but it seems increasingly plain that customs officers are at the very forefront of the campaign. Most crime (with some forms of terrorism a conspicuous exception) is committed mainly for financial profit and that profit has to be re-cycled if the criminals are to gain anything at all from it.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD’S increasing reliance on cars is threatening efforts to combat climate change, according to a report published by the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA). Although its report ‘Oil Crises and Climate Challenges’ found that oil consumption has been declining since 1973 in every other industrial and service sector, soaring transport demands meant overall levels have not declined.…