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BY ALAN OSBORN, IN LONDON

Changes in drink industry logistics in Europe have largely been driven by two factors in the past year or so: the broad economic recession and the growing importance of green policies.

In the wine and spirits sector, the effect of these two influences has been a fairly constant switch to bulk shipments.…

BY TENZING LAMSANG in BHUTAN

JIGMI RINZIN: CV

? Currently: Secretary General, ARAPAC (from Dec 2010); MP (from Apr 2008), National Council of Bhutan NCB); Public Accounts Committee, Parliament of Bhutan – member (from Apr 2009) and chairman (Jul 2010 – Jun 2011); Member of Economics Affairs Committee and Chairman, Parliamentary Entitlements Committee, NCB (from Jul 2008).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE CEO designate of the incoming UK regulator for wholesale and retail financial services has announced that his organisation will take over regulation of the discredited LIBOR inter-bank lending rate from the British Bankers’ Association (BBA). Martin Wheatley, who will head the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) when it is launched next year, said his organisation was best placed to restore trust in this critical index.…

BY LEE ADENDORFF, IN BOLOGNA

MORE than 110 academics and university administrators met in Bologna, Italy on September 21 for the twenty-fourth anniversary conference of the Magna Charta Universitatum – a declaration on fundamental university principles that has now been signed by over 750 universities worldwide.…

BY CARMEN PAUN

WITNESSES at the trial of UBS alleged rogue trader Kweku Adoboli have been rebuffing defence claims they knew about his frauds, and so shared the blame. The defence at the Southwark Crown Court case, London, which began September 3, is arguing the bank tolerated Adoboli’s unauthorised trades, if it made UBS money.…

COGENERATION, or rather trigeneration, units that cooled, heated and powered the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games won plaudits if no gold medals for the manufacturer – America’s GE – but neatly symbolised the spread of CHP into mainstream and niche applications.…

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.…

BY SHEENA ROSSITER, IN SÃO PAULO; RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, IN NEW DELHI; HELEN CLARK, IN HANOI; AND WANG FANGQING, IN SHANGHAI

THE GROWTH in outsourcing has been maybe the most important trend in the clothing and textile sector in the past decade, with emerging market countries offering increasingly reliable and sophisticated services.…

BY ROB STOKES, IN MALAGA

ONLINE gambling and money laundering are often spoken of in the same breath. So while British overseas territory Gibraltar enjoys the financial benefits of hosting the operations of most of Europe’s significant online betting businesses, it has been keen to show itself willing to regulate and police the industry.…

BY MONIKA HANLEY, IN RIGA; ALICE TRUDELLE, IN WARSAW; CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS; EUGENE VOROTNIKOV, IN ST PETERSBURG; ROBERT STOKES, IN MALAGA; GERARD O’DWYER, IN HELSINKI; LEE ADENDOORF, IN LUCCA; ALAN OSBORN; MJ DESCHAMPS; AND KEITH NUTHALL

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.…