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EVERY five years, a new European Commission is appointed with the supposed aim of renewing the energy and impetus of the European Union (EU). What are the implications for the fight against commercial crime? Keith Nuthall and Méabh Mc Mahon report from Brussels.…

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) finance ministers agreed at an EU economic and finance ministers (ECOFIN) meeting on the scope of the long-threatened ‘financial transaction tax’, and 11 governments pledged to reach an agreement on its details by the end of the year.…

THE IDENTITY of the new European Union trade commissioner charged with bringing the planned Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) to conclusion was unveiled today. Cecilia Malmström of Sweden, who is currently the EU’s home affairs commissioner, has been nominated to hold this sensitive position from November 1.…

Danish meat industry organisations estimate that Russia’s meat embargo will cost the country’s pig farming industry around Danish Krone DKK 1.6 billion (USD282 million/EUR215 million) in 2014. The industry is becoming increasingly concerned that lost revenue could potentially deepen should the existing trade sanctions escalate in to a full-force trade war in the event of a further deterioration in political relations between the European Union (EU) and Russia over Ukraine.…

THE IDENTITY of a new European Union environment commissioner, who would be charged with handling the next round of REACH registration (until 2018), was revealed today. It will be Malta’s Karmenu Vella, who has been a Maltese tourism minister.

Another important nomination is Poland’s Elżbieta Bieńkowska, who will become a new powerful internal market and entrepreneurship commissioner.…

A NEW team of European Union commissioners, impacting on metal industry-related policies for the next five years, was unveiled today in Brussels. The incoming Commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, announced his team, who will be charged especially with promoting job creation and economic growth across the EU.…

UTILITY executives will have been carefully analysing the unveiling on Wednesday (September 10) of a new European Commission team to take office from November 1. As well as new personnel, a key initial move with potentially important implications for European Union (EU) energy policy was the uniting of the current energy and climate portfolios.…

GERMANY’S Günther Oettinger, who is currently the European Union’s energy commissioner, has been nominated to become the EU’s new digital economy commissioner. He would replace the current digital agenda commissioner, Neelie Kroes of the Netherlands, who will leave her job on Nov 1, when the new team of commissioners under incoming president Jean-Claude Juncker comes into office.…

FOUR Baltic-rim states have reached an agreement on a programme of joint measures to combat the outbreak of the fatal African swine fever virus (ASFV) in the region. Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia established a Baltic-Polish taskforce on July 30, to eliminate the spread of the disease, which was detected at a piggery in Eastern Lithuania on July 22.…

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A JUDICIAL hearing is scheduled for September 9 in London after the United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) charged the UK subsidiary of French engineering group Alstom with fraud and conspiracy to corrupt.…