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RUSSIA EU MEAT BAN THREAT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
RUSSIA is threatening to impose an import ban on all European Union (EU) meat products from January 1. Moscow has written to the European Commission warning of a potential embargo because of the admission that day of Bulgaria and Romania to the EU – Russia claims safety concerns over these country’s meat products, which would henceforth have free circulation in the EU.…
EUROPEAN COMMISSION WILL MONITOR POLISH AND CZECH STEEL PROGRESS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE STEEL sectors of Poland and the Czech Republic will be under a microscope wielded by the European Commission in 2007, when Brussels decides whether state aid pumped into these industries was well spent or should be paid back.…
DIESEL LOSES ECJ JEANS EXPORT CASE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has refused to block Polish company Montex from exporting Diesel-branded jeans from Poland to Ireland, where it has no trademark protection. Diesel argued it had the right to stop consignments crossing Germany, even though they were destined for Ireland, because it did control German trademark rights to the brand.…
EU MINISTERS APPROVE RENEWED EURO ANTI-COUNTERFEITING PROGRAMME
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN and other European Union (EU) countries which have yet to adopt the Euro are to be covered by a newly extended EU programme on fighting counterfeiting of Europe’s single currency. The EU Council of Ministers has approved a renewed ‘Pericles’ programme, which will spend Euro 1 million a year from 2007 to 2013.…
RUSSIA THREATENS TO DEEPEN MEAT ROW WITH EUROPE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
RUSSIA is threatening to impose an import ban on all European Union (EU) meat products from January 1. Moscow has written to the European Commission warning of a potential embargo because of the admission that day of Bulgaria and Romania to the EU – Russia claims safety concerns over these country’s meat products, which would henceforth have free circulation in the EU.…
GREECE FACES TOUGH STRUGGLE TO FIGHT RESURGENT ORGANISED CRIME
BY DAVID HAWORTH
GREECE has usually been at the better end of any crime statistic league table, but the picture has darkened recently, writes David Haworth. The country is the European Union’s second most corrupt (after Poland), while money laundering and drugs have also made their ugly marks.…
DIESEL LOSES GENERIC JEANS EXPORT ECJ CASE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
JEANS company Diesel has lost a case at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) where it was trying to block Polish company Montex from exporting Diesel-branded jeans from Poland to Ireland, where it has no trademark protection. Diesel argued it had the right to stop consignments crossing Germany, even though they were destined for Ireland, because it did control German trademark rights to the brand.…
EU ROUND UP - EU STRUGGLES TO MAKE DEAL WITH RUSSIA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
RUSSIA President Vladimir Putin has signalled a tough fight with the European Union (EU) over a future energy deal as December 1 negotiations approach on renewing the existing EU-Russia Partnership and Cooperation Agreement.
Speaking after an informal EU heads of government summit, Putin stressed an agreement would not involve Russia accepting the terms of the unratified 1991 multilateral Energy Charter Treaty, agreed by Boris Yeltsin in 1991, and involving EU firms breaking Gazprom’s monopoly on Russian and Central Asian gas supplies and accessing Russia energy networks.…
VODKA DEFINITION DEAL GETS SUPPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have moved towards finalising a deal over the vexed question of what ingredients are allowed in an EU-sold drink labeled ‘vodka’, although this would discriminate against vodka-style drinks made from non-traditional products.
The Finnish presidency of the council said there was "a broad majority within the council" which could support its "general approach" regarding a hotly contested "proposal for a regulation on the definition, description, presentation and labelling of spirit drinks…" This is a significant advance on previous council meetings, where there has been no agreement.…
POLAND FACES EU LEGAL ACTION OVER UNFAIR LOTTERY TAX
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE POLISH government has been formally threatened with legal action by the European Commission at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) because Poland-based lottery winners of foreign lotteries are stung for what Brussels regards as unfair taxes.
Poland exempts from taxation winners’ prizes paid by Polish lotteries or subjects them to a flat rate tax of 10%.…