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GREECE'S TOBACCO INDUSTRY: FIGHTING AUSTERITY, CONTRABAND AND ANTI-SMOKING CAMPAIGNS
BY MICHAEL KOSMIDES, IN ATHENS
It is maybe the clearest sign imaginable that Greece is in deep economic trouble: people are smoking a lot less. With disposable incomes falling steeply, Greek smokers are buying far fewer cigarettes. And the contraband sector is booming.…
EU ROUND UP - BRUSSELS THREATENS COURT ACTION OVER GAS DIRECTIVE FAILURES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is coming down hard on European Union (EU) member states which have yet to sufficiently liberalise their natural gas industries, breaching the EU gas directive, agreed as long ago as 2009.
It has sent legal final warnings to Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Spain, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Romania and Slovakia saying they have two months to show how they will comply, or face possible cases at the European Court of Justice (ECJ).…
GREEK TEXTILE AND CLOTHING INDUSTRY: RESILIENCE IN TROUBLED TIMES
BY MICHAEL KOSMIDES, IN ATHENS
THESE are dark times for Greece’s textiles and clothing industry, which has been particularly hit by the country’s economic woes. Speaking to just-style, Vassilis Masselos, managing director of leading underwear manufacturer and retailer Nota Masselos SA and former president of the International Apparel Federation noted that "with more than 1 million unemployed, slashed wages and pensions and unprecedented taxation, Greeks today have very little disposable income for clothing".…
EU ROUND UP - EU PUSHES AHEAD WITH IRAN OIL IMPORT EMBARGO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has voted to end imports of oil and petroleum products from Iran over concerns it continues to develop nuclear weapons. Existing import contracts can be fulfilled until July 1, with the EU reviewing the ban before May 1.…
BRUSSELS THREATENS ITALY WITH COURT ACTION OVER GENERIC DRUG AUTHORISATIONS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening Italy with legal action at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) over a restriction it imposes on generic drug manufacturers. Italian law prevents them from filing marketing authorisation requests before the penultimate year of a patent’s expiry which Brussels says breaks EU genetic medicine legislation.…
PIPELINE PROJECTS' COMPETITION TO BRING GAS TO EUROPE IS LIKE GAME OF DIPLOMATIC CHESS
BY MARK ROWE
ALTHOUGH it has been likened to a 21st century Silk Road, the southern gas corridor is currently making painstaking and troubled progress; inching its way through the political and economic strife that stands between the Caspian Sea and Western Europe.…
HEAVY FINE FOR PEPSICO'S SNACKS ARM IN GREECE
BY MICHAEL KOSMIDES, IN ATHENS
OFFICIALS at Greece’s competition regulator have told just-food the PepsiCo subsidiary fined almost Euro EUR16.2 million for abusing its dominant position in the market from 2000 to 2008 had been operating "without giving a thought to competition".…
EU ROUND UP - NATURAL GAS HERE TO STAY - AT LEAST TO 2050 SAYS BRUSSELS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FUTURE of the natural gas sector is guaranteed in any viable European Union (EU) energy mix, the European Commission has said in a major policy paper. In its ‘Energy Road Map 2050’, Brussels argues that gas is the relatively clean fuel that will buy the EU time to adopt new energy technologies.…
EU OLIVE OIL INDUSTRY FACING UP TO GLOBAL PRICE FALLS
BY ALAN OSBORN
OLIVE oil growers in the European Union (EU) are currently facing an increasingly frustrating situation: while demand is growing internationally and harvests have been unusually good in recent years, prices are falling at a rapid rate, threatening the livelihood of the thousands of farmers in the main growing countries.…
BRUSSELS PLOTS LEGAL ACTION OVER LAYING HEN WELFARE ABUSES
BY LEAH GERMAIN
THE EUROPEAN Commission is taking legal action against 14 European Union (EU) member states, it thinks are failing to protect egg laying hens against animal welfare abuses. According to the Commission, the countries have failed to comply with EU legislation that prohibits farmers from keeping egg-laying hens in confined, tiny cages smaller than 750 square centimetres.…