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The USA’s Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) has released its long-awaited rule on enhancing and standardising climate-related disclosures by companies listed in the USA and those undergoing public offerings. The rule largely follows single materiality principles of measuring the impact of climate change on reporters, with filers having to report climate-related risks reasonably likely to have a material impact on business strategy, model, operations and finances.…

Balkans countries once part of Yugoslavia, still outside the European Union (EU) face a tough task upgrading their AML/CFT systems to appropriate international and EU standards. The record of three countries – Serbia, North Macedonia and Bosnia & Herzegovina – shows how remaining outside the EU and its AML legislation, places complete political responsibility on their national governments for difficult AML/CFT reforms, which they can be slow to undertake.…

The Bulgarian dairy market and industry is struggling to survive and grow after the Covid-19 pandemic hit sales, followed by steep inflation and economic disruption caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But innovative companies are building a future by developing quality and new dairy products, making the most of Bulgaria’s special yoghurt and cheese traditions.…

European textile companies increasingly overburdened by regulation say each new piece of European Union (EU) regulation they face should be assessed on the grounds of how it helps industry succeed in an increasingly competitive market. They say more should be done to boost a sector that employs 1.3 million workers in 192,000 companies and provides more than EUR67 billion’s worth of exports to the 27-country bloc, according to the European Apparel and Textile Confederation (Euratex).…

The European Union (EU) Council of Ministers has told its member states that it expects their governments to actively combat fraud in spending under the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). That this is an ongoing problem was highlighted in a report for the EU’s financial watchdog the Court of Auditors issued in July (1).…

An international operation led by the European Union’s (EU) police and judicial agencies, Europol and Eurojust brought down the criminal gang behind a multimillion-Euro crypto investment scam. In a November 8 and 9 action day, raids on 15 call centres across eastern Europe – six in Albania, five in Georgia, one in North Macedonia and three in Ukraine – led to five arrests.…

In early September (2022), Serbia faced a serious domestic milk crisis, with empty or half-empty store shelves, with consumers relying significantly on imports of foreign milk from Poland and the Czech Republic. The domestic supply squeeze was not a surprise for Serbia’s dairy farmers, however.…

The Greece higher education sector is sharply increasing the number of English-taught short-term higher education (HE) courses that operate in collaboration with foreign universities. According to Christos Michalakelis, co-founder and president of Study in Greece (SiG), the official organisation promoting internationalisation within Greek HE, short-term courses yielding student academic credits, is a stepping stone “towards internationalising Greek universities”.…

The European Commission has proposed a major piece of environmental legislation designed to spawn detailed pan-European Union (EU) rules imposing sustainability standards on paint and coatings companies selling into the EU. A key plank of the current Commission’s European Green Deal strategy, this proposed EU ‘regulation on eco-design for sustainable products’ would allow the EU executive to implement sector-specific requirements.…

With the Russian invasion of Ukraine prompting memories of the violence marring the break-up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the war is a warning that economic trends can and do flow regardless of political turmoil – and the tobacco industy is not an exception this rule.…