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THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) aviation crisis cell (EACCC) is currently coordinating the response of the European airspace network to the closure of airspace in part of eastern Ukraine on July 17, following the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines MH 17 flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.…

WHEN American personal care product giant Johnson & Johnson opened its shared-services centre in Prague during 2006, it employed 12 people and provided only in-group procure-to-pay services. Currently this Johnson & Johnson finance centre is the largest of the five centres the company operates worldwide in terms of staff numbers as well as the scope of services it provides to internal business partners.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has released a new European Energy Security Strategy, aimed at further reducing Europe’s reliance on energy imports, notably on politically unreliable trading partners such as Russia.

Its new policy plan was to be debated at the next European Union (EU) summit (European Council) on June 26-27, in Brussels.…

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.…

The European Commission has proposed that Euro EUR3.6 million be taken from the European Union’s (EU) globalisation fund to help 1,000 former steel workers in Romania get back to work. The sum must be formally approved by the European Parliament and Council of Ministers.…

AUSTRIA

The location of ECC Austria in central Vienna means many consumers drop by to receive advice or lodge complaints in person with the ECC’s five staff members. A top priority in 2013 was increasing public awareness about e-commerce fraud; a brochure aimed at combatting the problem was published and more than 600,000 were distributed throughout Austria.…

THE EUROPEAN Parliament has backed proposals to boost the implementation of the European Union’s (EU) beleaguered Single European Sky reforms, although MEPs passed amendments that would delay some proposed liberalisation measures.

Voting today in Strasbourg (March 12), the parliament’s plenary gave a first reading approval to this proposed regulation and also a related regulation reforming the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).…

POWERS to freeze criminal assets simultaneously across most of the

European Union (EU) have moved closer the European Parliament plenary overwhelmingly backed a draft directive already given an informal nod by most member states.

It will allow EU-wide confiscation of assets acquired through active and passive corruption in both the private and public sectors including officials of EU institutions.…

MANY European Union (EU) countries are unsure whether imposing mandatory labelling requirements for the country of origin of meat used as ingredient in processed food products would bring benefits that justify the costs, a meeting of EU agriculture ministers in Brussels yesterday (24 March) revealed.…

THE FRENCH government has welcomed an agreement between the German Food and Allied Workers Union (NGG) and the employers group ANG to introduce a minimum wage structure for the approximately 80,000 employees of the German meat industry.

French farm minister Stephane le Foll said that following the deal the expected the Germany good industry to return to “more balanced competition with its European partners.”…