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EUROSTAT 2005 EU WINE PRODUCTION PRICE FALL FIGURES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LATEST agricultural statistics from the European Commission paint a gloomy picture for the European Union (EU), with production falling 10.4% in 2005 from its heady levels in 2003 and 2004, and with prices also falling, by 11.5%.…
EU BANKRUPTCY CONFERENCE REFORM
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Commission conference designed to ease the damage caused by bankruptcy has heard how most European Union (EU) countries are already reforming their insolvency laws. Speaking at a Commission conference on ‘Insolvency and Fresh Start’ in Brussels, 120 legal experts from 24 countries were told last year 140,000 corporate insolvencies in the old 15-member EU, risked 1.5 million jobs.…
CHINA VIETNAM EU SHOES ANTI-DUMPING DUTIES EUROPEAN COMMISSION
BY ALAN OSBORN
A PROPOSAL by the European Union (EU) trade commissioner Peter Mandelson to impose provisional anti-dumping duties of 19.4 % on imported leather shoes from China and 16.8% on those from Vietnam has sparked protests from the Chinese Leather Association (CLA), caused concern among EU retailers and importers, while bringing uncertainty into the global leather market.…
ANDORRA SMALL EUROPEAN COUNTRY UNIVERSITIES RECTOR INTERVIEW SERIES
BY ALAN OSBORN
Fact box – Andorra
Population of country: 76,875 (2004)
Number of students enrolled at university: 718
Percentage of students native to the country where the university is located: 60%
Percentage of eligible population attending university: 10% (see text)
INTERNVIEW
IT’S something of a surprise to find that a country as small as Andorra has its own university, and perhaps easy to be a little patronising about it.…
EUROBAROMETER FOOD POLL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHEN European Union (EU) consumers think of food, more associate it with "taste" – 31%, than with "pleasure" – 29%, "hunger" – 27%, "health" – 19% and "necessity" – 15%. As usual with culturally diverse Europe, however, there were wide national variations.…
BIRD FLU RESPONSES - VACCINATION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
DEBATES are continuing in European Union (EU) institutions over whether vaccination is a safe response to Europe’s growing bird flu problem. With Germany, France, Slovakia, Slovenia, Italy and other countries all reporting cases, the EU’s Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health approved the first vaccination campaigns.…
EU WTO ROUND UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW EFSA BOSS BUDGET ROW – LATEST ADVICE
THE FRENCHWOMAN appointed to take the vacant top executive director job at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) will need all her political skills to solve a potential budget crisis facing the agency.…
EU FISHING ROUND UP - ANGOLA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has demonstrated that there are limits to the authority coastal states may have over its fishing fleets in international access deals by refusing to renew a protocol with Angola. Indeed, the European Commission has asked EU ministers to denounce a 1989 agreement underpinning a series of access deals, after refusing to accept a new Angolan law on ‘biological aquatic resources’.…
SPAIN ITALY EUROPEAN COMMISSION PUBLISHING JOINT VENTURE APPROVAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the launch of two related publishing logistics joint ventures, which will work in Spain and Portugal. One will focus on book distribution, and will be owned by Compañía de Distribución Integral Logista SA (Logista) and Editorial Planeta SA, both of Spain.…
BIRD FLU POULTRY PRODUCTION PRICE FALL FEARS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ITALY, Belgium, Greece, Malta, France, Spain, Hungary, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Portugal have called on the European Commission to support poultry producers hit by low prices because of bird flu outbreaks in Turkey and Romania.
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