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THE EUROPEAN Commission’s latest EUR500 million support package for European farmers, finalised at an August 26 European Union (EU) committee in Brussels, will not ease the dairy crisis, European dairy groups have warned.

“Production cuts is the label used to describe the current package of measures,” said the EU farm lobby group European Milk Board (EMB)’s president Romuald Schaber following the initial announcement of the plans in July.…

A EUROPEAN Commission ruling that Ireland must recover up to EUR13 billion in back-taxes (plus interest) from Apple has signalled a tough approach from Brussels over alleged European Union (EU) competition law breaches associated with sweet taxation deals by member states.…

THE PERSONAL care product sectors of the European Union (EU) and Japan have welcomed the agreement in principle of an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the two jurisdictions, saying it will promote and ease trade.

Dubbed by the European Commission as “the most important bilateral trade agreement ever concluded by the EU”, the deal will fully eliminate mutual duties on all cosmetic products, an industrial sector the Commission notes as “very competitive”.…

THE opening of Paddy Power bookmaker shops in provincial Romanian cities such as Cluj in the past year is the latest show of international ambition from an Irish corporation which has become a market leader and has shaken up the European gambling industry.…

With the Irish government focused on attracting multinationals to the Republic of Ireland, it is often overlooked that Irish family businesses remain resilient.

Indeed some of the best known names in Irish business started out small and private. Ryanair was launched by the Ryan family of county Tipperary.…

DISAGREEMENTS over the meat sector are holding up a deal between the European Union (EU) and the United States for a comprehensive, ambitious Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP) trade deal by end 2016. Entrenched attitudes concerning a risk- (EU) or science-based (US) approach to meat trade will make this difficult to achieve.…

Branded food manufacturers based in Britain face a risk that their exports to the European Union (EU) will attract duties now the UK government has confirmed it will push ahead with leaving the EU following the June 23 Brexit referendum result.…

Europe in 2016 has been witness to significant milestones passed in deployment of new, full-scale demonstration and commercial tidal stream and wave energy projects.

This is encouraging for the European Union (EU), which wants clean, renewable ‘ocean energy’ to provide a tenth of its power by mid-century.…

HAVING a strong reputation for sustainable practice is increasingly a strong marketing card, for the confectionery sector as much as any other consumer industry. But with its extended international supply chains, demonstrating a high regard for environmental good practice is not always easy for the confectionery sector.…

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly has urged members of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) to remember that they are citizens too and can make complaints about maladministration, as well as their clients.

O’Reilly explained to Accounting & Business that as European Ombudsman since July 2013, she deals with complaints about maladministration in the EU institutions, bodies and agencies from any person, business or non-governmental organisation (NGO) in the EU.…