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GREECE - LIGNITE



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has given Greece a ‘reasoned opinion’ final warning threatening legal action at the European Court of Justice, telling it to cease the state-owned Public Power Corporation’s (PCC) practice of rolling the cost of extracting lignite – its key source – into its accounted generation costs.…

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GUINEA BISSAU DEAL



BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have approved an agreement with west Africa’s Guinea Bissau, which will guarantee access to its fishing grounds for Italian, French, Greek, Portuguese and Spanish fishermen until June 2006. The deal involves the Guinea Bissau government being granted Euro 7.26 million a year in financial compensation.…

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AVIATION SMOKING CASE



BY PHILIP FINE

GREECE’S Olympic Airways has been ordered to pay US$1.4 million by an American court after a man died in 1998 from an asthmatic reaction to on-board cigarette smoke. The judges ruled airline attendants had negligently failed to heed his request to move to a smoke-free zone.…

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CAP REFORM - COTTON



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MAJORITY of cotton growing subsidies in the European Union (EU) will from 2006 be de-linked from production – mostly paid as single direct payments to growers – the EU Council of Ministers has decided at a special meeting on Common Agricultural Policy reform.…

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OLYMPIC GAMES SHOES



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has called on the organisers of this year’s Olympic Games in Greece to ensure that any sports footwear used by athletes has been manufactured under International Labour Organisation (ILO) codes, especially those banning the use of child labour.…

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WTO QUOTAS - EU IMPACT



BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHEN the European Union (EU) signed up to an Agreement on Textiles and Clothing at the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) last Uruguay Round that foresaw the scrapping of import quotas at the start of 2005, it is hard to imagine it viewing the deal as a way to boost production in knitted products.…

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USA MONEY LAUNDERING REPORT



BY KEITH NUTHALL
NOBODY likes to be on a blacklist, especially one written by the American government. But every year, the US state department issues a comprehensive rogues gallery of countries involved in the narcotics trade and related criminal problems. One surprising entrant: the United States.…

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WORK ACCIDENT STATS



BY KEITH NUTHALL
RELIABLE statistics are of course vital to any insurance company’s assessment of risk, and nationally produced figures in countries such as Britain and the USA can usually be counted upon in actuarial calculations. But what about comparing countries when managing international policy portfolios?…

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GREECE - LIGNITE



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has given Greece two months to say how it will scrap the exclusive rights enjoyed by its state-owned Public Power Corporation (PCC) for the mining of lignite in the country, which accounts for more than 60 per cent of its electricity.…

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EUROSTAT - ILLNESS



BY KEITH NUTHALL
BELGIUM is the European Union’s (EU) salmonellosis hotspot according the latest comparative figures collated by Eurostat, the EU’s statistical agency. In 2001, 104 cases were recorded in Belgium per 100,000 people, with other high figures being recorded in Germany (94 cases), Luxembourg (83) and Austria (81).…

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