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European Union (EU) police agency Europol has hailed as a success a two-day operation against illicit scrap dealers, which yielded 271 arrests and identified 146 cases of theft across Europe. Law enforcement teams, backed by the EU unit, checked 8,300 scrap metal dealers in 20 European countries.…

A EUROPEAN Commission-financed report on money laundering punishments within the European Union (EU) has called on EU governments to consider using more administrative penalties, including property seizures, to punish hiding criminal proceeds.

Noting that money laundering is “visibly under-prosecuted” in the EU, it said using article 3 of the EU’s fourth money laundering directive authorising the use of non-criminal proceedings “should be further explored and developed.”…

The European Commission has approved the acquisition of a 39% stake in German scrap metal processing company Scholz AG by Toyota Tsusho Corporation (TTC), the trading arm of the Japanese industrial conglomerate Toyota.  
A Commission note said that the move would not damage competition within the European Union (EU) scrap market, deeming it “compatible with the internal market” of the EU.…

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THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) is increasing its assistance to Ukraine, because of its ongoing political and military crisis, the development institution’s annual meeting has been told. The country is a core part of the EBRD’s eastern, central Europe and central Asia region of operation, along with Russia, which recently annexed Crimea, sparking a diplomatic firestorm.…

DANISH Crown’s decision to locate capacity-based facility investments outside Denmark carries the risk of straining relations with the government in Copenhagen when the company continues to solicit state measures to reduce operating costs at local plants. 

The meat company’s group-wide cost-reduction plan calls for a cost efficiency review and re-organisation of factory capacity in Denmark.…

The Danish government is considering breaking ranks with the European Union (EU) and striking a bilateral trade deal with Russia to protect its pork exports. These have been hit while Russia blocks EU pigmeat exports over a handful of African swine fever cases in Poland and Lithuania.…

RUSSIA is challenging the European Union’s (EU) third energy package at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), claiming its requirements for market access and unbundling break EU WTO commitments for open trading with other countries. Moscow is concerned the law will, for instance, allow competitors access to infrastructure such as the South Stream pipeline it wants to build across the Black Sea.…

Events in Ukraine continue to unfold in dramatic fashion: a government overthrown, Crimea annexed by Russia, pro-Russian separatists stoking unrest and grabbing government buildings in eastern Ukraine, and worries of a full-scale invasion. Weaved into these crises – and in many respects at the heart of them – is Ukraine’s oil and gas sector.…

The Nordic paints and coating market is competitive and growing, being dominated by a handful of strong players headed by Tikkurila and Teknos in Finland and Jotun in Norway. In Dyrup, the region could boast a fourth major local player, although American corporation PPG Industries paid the Danish firm’s parent, Monberg & Thorsen, EUR115 million for the company in 2011.…