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EASTERN EUROPE COSMETICS SALES STILL SLUGGISH – WITH SALES TRENDS STARTING TO MIRROR WESTERN EUROPE
BY MARK ROWE; JONATHAN DYSON, in Zagreb; and ANDREW KURETH, in Warsaw
THE COUNTRIES of eastern and central Europe that came in from the cold in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall have felt the economic chill in recent years, with recession affecting the fortunes of the cosmetics industry.…
EUROPE’S COGENERATION MARKET NEEDS A BIG PUSH FROM GOVERNMENTS TO PROSPER IN THE LONG TERM
IT is a curious irony that for an industry as technical as cogeneration that maybe the biggest handicap to its sustained growth in Europe is actually emotional. Both commercial markets and governments are swayed by sentiment as well as hard cash – and currently both influences are failing to pull in co-gen’s favour.…
EUROPE’S COGENERATION MARKET NEEDS A BIG PUSH FROM GOVERNMENTS TO PROSPER IN THE LONG TERM
IT is a curious irony that for an industry as technical as cogeneration that maybe the biggest handicap to its sustained growth in Europe is actually emotional. Both commercial markets and governments are swayed by sentiment as well as hard cash – and currently both influences are failing to pull in co-gen’s favour.…
EUROPE: EUA REPORT REVEALS HOW UNIS TODAY TAP PUBLIC FUNDS
An interim report from the European Universities Association (EUA) on the pattern of public funding for universities has highlighted how the character of funding for HE institutions in Europe is changing, largely though not entirely, as a result of the economic pressures facing governments.…
EUROPE TRIES TO NETWORK ITS WAY INTO ENERGY INDEPENDENCE
THE DIPLOMATIC stand-off between the European Union (EU) and Russia over their respective links to Ukraine throws into stark light the EU’s desire to secure energy security of supply and to decrease its reliance on an unpredictable Russian government. These needs were reflected in the announcement in October of a list of 248 energy infrastructure projects that the EU wants built in in the next decade, all in some way connecting EU member countries through electricity, gas and oil links.…
NEXT STEPS AFTER MAXIMA STORE ROOF COLLAPSE IN LATVIA
Lithuania’s Maxima Group has told just-food it is too early to assign blame for the collapse of its supermarket in the Zolitude area of Riga, Latvia. The tragedy left 54 people dead, with two Russians and one Armenian among the casualties according to the latest figures.…
BALTIC STATES AML/CFT: GOOD IN PARTS, WEAK IN OTHERS
THE BALTIC States’ proximity to Russia and their position as a border between eastern and western financial markets, renders Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania particularly at risk as regards money laundering.
Hard hit during the global financial crisis they have still made considerable strides towards improving anti-money laundering (AML) and combating the financing of terrorism (CFT) legislation while transitioning into the Eurozone: Estonia joined January 2011; Latvia will join this January; Lithuania wants to join by 2015. …
TELECOM FRAUD LOSSES TO TOP USD46bn IN 2013
FRAUDSTERS using telecommunications without paying will cost the global industry around USD46 billion in 2013, according to the USA based Communications Fraud Control Association (CFCA). Based on a worldwide survey, its experts predict such losses this year will be 15% up on 2011 and will represent 2.09% of global revenues.…
A QUARTER OF EUROPEAN ONLINE SHOPPERS BOUGHT BOOKS ONLINE LAST YEAR
ALMOST one quarter of European online shoppers used the internet last year to buy books, magazines and e-learning material, according to a Eurostat annual survey on information and communication technologies (ICT) use in households and individual consumers, published yesterday.
Buying books, magazines or e-learning material online was most common in Luxembourg, with 47% of those surveyed declaring to have done it, and Germany, where 41% of those who participated said they had bought these kind of products online in 2012.…
ICAO CONFERENCE DEBATES NEED FOR CAREFUL ROLL-OUT OF AUTOMATED BORDER CONTROL SYSTEMS
TECHNICAL and security experts have gathered at the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) to consider how to roll-out developing automated border control (ABC) systems, which offer hard-pressed airports the ability to better process surging passenger numbers.
Staged at ICAO’s headquarters, in Montréal, Canada, from October 22 to 24, the agency’s ninth symposium and exhibition on MRTDs [machine readable travel documents] biometrics and border security debated ABC developments such as newly-emerging technologies; trust issues; reliability; non-intrusiveness; biometrics; effective inspections tools; trusted traveller programmes; challenges to border integrity and ways to address them.…