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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.…

Greece is making an organised and coordinated attempt towards internationalising its academic institutions, boosting the global reputation of its higher education sector.

A key element of this strategy is the government’s Study in Greece (SiG) project (1), which encourages foreign students and academics to work in Greece, highlighting non-Greek language courses (especially English-language studies) at Greek Universities, and which has been operating since 2015.…

The Russian government, business and wealthy oligarchs have been hit by more European Union (EU) and UK sanctions as their military continues to invade Ukraine – the UN confirming 474 civilian deaths by today (March 10) and Ukraine’s government saying more than 10,000 Russian troops have been killed.…

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) has launched its first annual report, saying that by December 31, it had processed 2,832 crime reports, opened 576 investigations (515 still active that day), identified EUR5.4 billion in estimated damages to European Union (EU) budgets and seized EUR147.3 million from alleged criminals.…

HALAL food producers from Bosnia & Herzegovina (B&H) are increasingly their competitiveness in European regional and worldwide food markets. This country, with 3.2 million inhabitants (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?locations=BA), of which more than 50% are Muslims, in 2006 established an Agency for Halal Quality Certification (https://www.halal.ba/index.php/en/pocetna/o-agenciji),…