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In the latest in a string of bans on cheese products entering Russia, the Russian Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights and Protection and Human Wellbeing (Rospotrebnadzor) has banned cheese products made by Poland’s Ostrowia.
But this latest dairy ban is not all it seems, and Milkiland, the Netherlands-based dairy products producer owning Ostrowia, has called for “dialogue” with Russian authorities because its banned ‘Wesola Krowka’ (‘Jolly Cow’) is made from vegetable fats.…

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) should invest in gas interconnections between member states to make its mooted EU Energy Union a success, the executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) has claimed.
Speaking (Feb 6) at a conference on the topic in Riga, Latvia, Maria van der Hoeven, said: “If done right, [the Energy Union] could be enormously beneficial to the region in terms of boosting economic growth, promoting energy security, completing the internal market and encouraging investment.”…

In a country embroiled in an ugly armed conflict, the issue of confectionery may seem at first glance to be superfluous. In Ukraine, though, that is anything but the case.

Not only is confectionery a key industry for the country, but it is a highly politicised one.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission stood by its position on Friday (January 30) that the European Union (EU) member states were united regarding talks with Russia about the possible lifting of the latter’s ban on EU food products such as pork meat.

A Russian official said last week that his country was ready to resume inspections with the goal of lifting the ban on pork meat from France, Hungary, Italy, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands.…

RUSSIA’S combined heat and power sector is poised to undergo a radical transformation that will use the open market to rejuvenate and update the industry, according to the country’s energy minister.

Speaking to the upper house of the Russian parliament, the Federation Council, energy minister Alexander Novak announced last November that creating a competitive market for combined heat and power (CHP) was a key priority.…

China’s cabinet, the State Council has announced the country will increase imports of beef and lamb, according to a Chinese government communiqué. It said ministers at a meeting held on September 29 (last Monday). “[China] will reasonably increase imports of beef and lamb,” said the statement.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission’s response to Europe’s African swine fever (ASF) crisis was criticised at the European Parliament yesterday (Tuesday Oct 7) for being too weak. The disease has brought about considerable economic damage to Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, members of the parliament’s agriculture and rural development committee warned in Brussels.…

IRELAND has been especially hard hit by the latest expansion of Russia’s ban on European Union (EU) meat exports, figures released today by the European Commission reveal.
Moscow has expanded its existing import restrictions to cover beef offal and beef fats.…

THE COMPREHENSIVE Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between Canada and the European Union (EU) will make it easier for both jurisdictions to recognise each other’s nursing certifications. Political leaders celebrated the end of negotiations in September in Ottawa, Canada (Sept 26).…

NATIONAL telecommunications experts and ministers from the 28 European Union (EU) countries are still far from agreeing the proposed ‘Connected Continent’ package of telecoms regulations, with intensive technical talks still taking place in the EU Council of Ministers. This is one of two EU legislators who must approve the legislation for it to take effect – it was proposed by the European Commission in September 2013.…