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BY DAVID HAWORTH
A FEW recent days on the edge of the Saronic Sea, due West of Athens, is all that was needed to renew the conviction Greece is the European Union’s most sumptuous cliché.

In this, the country is abundant.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) tobacco-advertising ban came into force on Sunday (July 31), prohibiting adverts in most print publications, radio and the Internet, although some countries – notably Germany – have not implemented the law. The 2003 tobacco-advertising directive would be, claimed EU health Commissioner Markos Kyprianou “one of the most effective ways of reducing smoking”.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A PROPOSAL by the European Commission to publish a blacklist of airlines with unsatisfactory safety records could mean the withdrawal of insurance cover for companies failing to measure up according to Commission officials. The Brussels plan has been made in the context of a recent sequence of aviation crashes off Italy, Greece, Canada and Venezuela where defective aircraft or negligence by operating personnel have come under suspicion.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) tobacco-advertising ban may have come into force on July 31, but it yet to be implemented in nine out of the 25 EU member states, the European Commission has admitted. Germany, Spain, Luxembourg, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Greece, Slovenia, Cyprus and Hungary have not notified Brussels with corresponding national prohibitions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ITALY has become the fourth European Union (EU) country this year to press the European Commission to allow crisis distillation to deal with a major wine grape surplus, warning the situation is so serious, riots could erupt in wine-growing areas.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NETHERLANDS, Greece and Poland have come under legal pressure from the European Commission to reform their car taxation rules so that it is easier to move vehicles around the European Union (EU). It has sent their governments formal requests to reform their systems, which – if ignored – could lead to a referral to the European Court of Justice (ECJ).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GREECE has been told to repay Euro 34.54 million in European Union (EU) subsidies because of deficiencies in its management and control of livestock extensification premium payments, from 2001-2003. Ordering the repayments, EU agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel said: “We will not hesitate to recover misspent money from member states.”…

BY DAVID HAWORTH
THE EUROPEAN Commission has demanded the Greek government repays Euro 23.98 million into central Brussels funds to compensate for recent multiple breaches in the administration of tobacco production aid payments.

This figure represents a flat-rate correction of 5% on money calculated to have gone adrift.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced it will recover Euro 244.4 million of European Union (EU) agricultural subsidies that were wrongly administered by member states through “inadequate controls” or outright rule breaking. France was the worst offender, with Euro 63.79 being reclaimed, notably regarding subsidies paid for fruit and vegetable “withdrawn from the market”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced it will recover Euro 244.4 million of European Union (EU) agricultural subsidies that were wrongly administered by member states through “inadequate controls” or outright rule breaking. France was the worst offender, with Euro 63.79 being reclaimed, notably regarding subsidies paid for fruit and vegetable “withdrawn from the market”.…