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THE EUROPEAN confectionery industry will later this year face hard evidence about the veracity of claims that certain brands sell lower quality products in eastern Europe than they do in the richer west. These claims – dismissed by many manufacturers as urban myths – are widely believed in eastern Europe, promoting the European Commission to act and set up a testing system.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved Hungarian government plans to sink EUR3.8 million in public investment into modernising the infrastructure of Debrecen International Airport, serving Hungary’s second city. The money will fund security and safety upgrades, enabling aircraft to land in low visibility, while strengthening the airport’s perimeter fence.…

AFTER years of slow growth since 2008, eastern Europe’s now mature cosmetics and personal care market has continued to show marginal gains in products sales in the past year, according to experts.

The region’s cosmetics and personal care products sales edged to USD23.67 billion in 2017 from USD21.74 billion in 2016, counting sales in Poland, Croatia, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia, Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, Slovenia, Macedonia and Georgia.…

HUNGARY has signed an agreement with Russia’s Gazprom involving the central European country linking its gas distribution networks to the planned TurkStream pipeline, routing Russian gas via Turkey into Europe. Hungarian foreign minister Peter Szijjarto struck the deal with Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller, which involved Hungary building infrastructure to link with TurkStream, which will also cross Bulgaria and Serbia.…

MILLIONS of Euros have been released by the European Union (EU) to fund projects deepening the international gas pipeline network in eastern Europe, a key element of EU plans for forge an ‘energy union’.

One major project is a EUR179 million plan to create the Bulgaria–Romania–Hungary–Austria (BRUA) system of gas lines.…

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.…

THE EUROPEAN Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has announced new reforms to the European Union’s (EU) new biocidal products regulation, clarifying difficulties discovered in the original legislation, in force from last September (2013). Widely used in anti-microbial and insecticide-impregnated knitted fabrics, a new amending regulation for biocidal products in force from April 25 (334/2014) includes a new definition of biocidal product families by risk and efficacy.…

The European Commission unveiled its long-anticipated new energy strategy on February 25, heralding the creation of an ‘Energy Union’, with a proposed influential European Union (EU) electricity regulator. The announcement also outlined how the European Commission wants to achieve the European Council goal set last of October (2014) for all member states to have interconnection capacity, enabling the export of at least 10% of their domestically-produced electricity.…

A European Parliament committee yesterday (Dec 3) vowed to swiftly approve any formal proposal for mandatory labelling for processed meats, claiming 90% of its members favour such a European Union (EU) law . Parliamentarians of all stripes claimed a comfortable majority of European Union consumers want to know where their meat comes from and what it consists of following the horsemeat scandal of two years ago.…

A Maltese socialist – nominated as the new environment, maritime affairs and fisheries Commissioner of the European Union (EU) – has indicated that he would not move to ban the use of cyanide in gold, silver, platinum and cadmium production, should he be confirmed in his new job.…