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EU MINISTERS BACK TOUGHENING SCHENGEN BORDER CHECKS OVER TERROR FEARS



 

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has agreed to back reinforcing checks of all persons entering or leaving the EU, including of EU citizens, to reduce the risk of visitors promoting terrorism.

“We have to determine whether they form a threat to our safety or not,” said Klaas Dijkhoff, the Netherlands’ minister for migration following a February 25 meeting of the EU council for justice and home affairs.…

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SEVEN EUROPEAN UNION STATES ARGUE BRITISH TRAFFIC LIGHT LABELLING BREAKS EU LAW



The European Commission should not accept the voluntary ‘traffic light’ food labelling system used in the UK where ‘red’ means high, ‘amber’ medium, and ‘green’ low levels of fat, sugar, salt and calories, seven European Union (EU) member states are arguing.…

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GREECE PIPELINE STATE AID APPROVED AS LNG COMES TO CROATIA



TAX breaks from the Greek government that will benefit the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) joint venture building a fixed gas link from Greece, through Albania to Italy have been approved by the European Commission. It had to decide whether the support complied with European Union (EU) state aid rules, designed to limit national government subsidies to companies in the EU’s border free single market.…

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REFUNDS MAYBE PAID ON EU’S VIETNAM AND CHINA ANTI-DUMPING DUTIES AFTER ECJ FINDS FAULT WITH TARIFFS



 

The European Commission has indicated that to just-style that it may accept a European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling against “anti-dumping” duties imposed on leather footwear made in China and Vietnam imported into the European Union (EU).

The duties were imposed in 2006 over concerns that these were being sold in the EU at below cost-price and have been the subject of some controversy ever since, with several retailers claiming they were illegal and demanding refunds.…

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SCHENGEN ZONE CONTINUES TO FRAY UNDER PRESSURE OF REFUGEE CRISIS



THE BORDER-free European Union (EU) Schengen zone has continued to weaken, with the European Union (EU) telling the Greek government to boost its border controls or face additional checks on passengers travelling to and from Greece. Reporting on how Greece had dealt with migrants from Turkey, many escaping Syria’s war, the European Commission, concluded there was “no effective identification and registration of irregular migrants and that fingerprints are not being systematically entered into the system and travel documents are not being systematically checked for the authenticity or against crucial security databases, such as SIS, Interpol and national databases.”…

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OECD SAYS GREEN REGULATIONS CAN OFFER ADVANTAGES TO TEXTILE MANUFACTURERS



A report released yesterday (Mar 10) by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD) has advised textile manufacturers to support government efforts to tighten environmental rules, saying they are unlikely to cause a loss of business.

The report is an attempt to dispel the widely-held view that tighter environmental rules increase costs and damages business – especially in emerging market manufacturing hubs.…

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EASTERN EUROPEAN PERSONAL CARE PRODUCT SECTOR AND MARKET SHRUGS OFF STAGNATION



It has taken more than half a decade for the cosmetics markets of eastern Europe to finally shrug off a long-running period stagnation that has characterised the regional market. Two underlying features – the financial crisis of 2008 and the completion of multinational takeovers in the noughties that saturated these post-communist markets – lay behind the extended period of slow, low or non-existent growth.…

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BULGARIA AND GREECE AGREE TO FILL KEY MISSING EU GAS PIPELINE NETWORK MISSING LINK



AN AGREEMENT has been signed between Bulgaria and Greece to build a 182-kilometre interconnector gas pipeline between Greece’s Komotini and Bulgaria’s Stara Zagora, which will help funnel Azeri gas sent via Turkey to eastern and central Europe. The pipeline will also ease Bulgaria’s energy exposure to Russia – it relies heavily on Russian gas exported via Ukraine.…

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EU PHARMA PATENT SETTLEMENT LEVELS STILL HEALTHY SAYS COMMISSION



The European Commission has noted that while the number of patent settlements in the European Union (EU) pharmaceutical sector declined in 2014, it is still optimistic that such deals will be used to avoid legal action in future. It says in a report that there were 76 patent settlements concluded between originator and generic companies in the EU pharmaceutical sector in 2014.…

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OPPOSITION GROWS IN EASTERN/CENTRAL EUROPE TO NORD STREAM EXPANSION PLAN



OPPOSITION is growing within eastern and central Europe to the plan to expand the Nord Stream pipeline from Russia to Germany. Gazprom, E.ON, BASF/Wintershall, OMV, ENGIE and Royal Dutch Shell have formed a consortium that would double the capacity of the current Nord Stream 1 and 2 line to 55 billion additional cubic metres of gas a year (bcm/y).…

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