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WITH 4.8 million Syrian refugees registered by the UN, and many more displaced without registration, their impact on consumer markets outside their home country has been significant. The tobacco sector has been no exception. Indeed, even before the civil war, Syrians were keen smokers – with 2004 Syrian Centre for Tobacco Studies research indicating that 56.9% of men smoked cigarettes and 17% of women; 20.2% of men smoked waterpipes (shisha) and 4.8% of women; 29% smoked daily – 51.4% of men and 11.5% of women).…

allowing gas – including LNG – to be transported between the two countries, starting July 1 (2016). This deal was struck between the network operators for Bulgaria and Greece – Bulgartransgaz and DESFA. It will enable companies from both sides and other countries to make north- or southbound deliveries, boosting gas movements between Greece, Turkey, Macedonia and Ukraine.…

Yet the good old British public is defying its political leaders and employers in its tens of millions. Why? There are a number of reasons, some of them more ‘tangible’ than others. I’ll attempt to list the main ones.

IMMIGRATION

The EU is associated in the public mind with immigration because it allows the free movement of labour.…

Swedish hi-tech company Ericsson is under investigation for corruption on both sides of the Atlantic, but not for the same cases. US investigators (thought to be from the department of justice and the Securities & Exchange Commission – SEC) are looking at Ericsson practices in China in line with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).…

The design of sustainable clothing poses many additional challenges compared with conventional products, from restrictions in fibres to product designs and manufacturing processes – but the biggest hurdle to overcome is keeping up with changing trends at the same time. But while fast fashion is undoubtedly profitable, its very nature can promote waste, making clothes that are only supposed to last a season or two and being particularly demanding on workers.…

An EU-funded project has developed innovative deep-mining strategies that are set to cut Europe’s dependence on the imported rare earth elements (REEs) within four years with less environmental damage.

The I²MINE – or ‘innovative technologies and concepts for the intelligent deep mine of the future’ – aimed to secure European access to the 15 lanthanides, as well as scandium and yttrium [ARE THESE IN SPECIFIC LOCATIONS/ REGIONS?],

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced that it will propose a ‘services passport’ system by December 31, designed to simplify administrative procedures for service providers, such as accountants, auditors and bookkeepers, who want to expand to foreign member states. EU internal market, industry, entrepreneurship and SMEs Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska said: “The cross-border provision of services in the EU is underdeveloped, in particular in the area of business services – such as accounting…” The passport system would give accountants more information, boosting legal certainty and clarity about relevant professional rules in another member state.…

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has chiselled a new template for international organic food trade deals with its new agreement with Chile. The deal involves EU regulators recognising Chilean exports as organic when produced and controlled under Chilean controls; and Chilean regulators accepting EU food exports as organic in Chile when produced under EU organic rules.…

THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has drafted plans to led EUR1 billion to TANAP Dogalgaz Iletim, the Azeri-Turkish consortium developing the Trans-Anatolian Pipeline (TAP) from the Shah Deniz production field in Azerbaijan to European and Turkish markets. The loan, which still needs approval from the EIB board of directors, will help ensure the TAP project proceeds.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission is taking Greece to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) after the Greek government refused to comply with an order from Brussels that it recover EUR37 million’s worth of illegal subsidies and tax breaks from Athens-based manufacturer United Textiles.…