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BY KEITH NUTHALL

ITALIAN luxury fashion house Brioni is launching a fragrance in London today (Oct 14), as its new CEO Andrea Perrone pushes ahead with expansion plans, especially in Asia. Perrone, nephew of company founder Gaetano Savini, assumed control of the company this July from a governing committee (which served upon).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

TEXTILE and clothing importers in the European Union (EU) will look closely at negotiations authorised this week (NOTE – MONDAY 7 SEPT) by the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers to revise the EU’s textile and clothing trade agreement with Belarus.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IT is a little like the election of a Pope. The five-yearly reappointment of the European Commission – now underway – is shrouded in complex procedure and murky backroom deals. Closed discussions between Europe’s power-brokers in Brussels offices, embassies and national capitals divide up the available positions – currently there are 27: one per member state.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE SIZE of the planned international investment in Ukraine’s gas distribution system has been revealed in a European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) memorandum: up to US$3 billion maybe pumped in. Money would start flowing with a US$300 million working capital loan from the EBRD for purchasing gas, repayable after this winter heating season.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

TURKEY – the lynchpin of European Union (EU) efforts to secure energy independence from Russia – has started negotiations to join the EU’s Energy Community. The organisation currently extends EU energy legislation to non-EU Balkans countries, but there are plans to add Moldova, Ukraine and Turkey to its membership.…

BY MARK GODFREY

THE NUCLEAR power authorities of Bangladesh deny they have reached terms with Russia’s Rosatom atomic energy corporation, despite Russian claims that it had secured the deal to build Bangladesh’s long-planned nuclear plant. Mohammed Muzammel Haque, chief engineer at the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC), claims Bangladesh has opted to build a 1,100 MW plant.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE TURKISH government has agreed Russian access to its Black Sea waters for its South Stream gas pipeline, just weeks after signing a deal with the European Union over hosting the rival Nabucco pipeline. The agreement has prompted claims of Turkish double-dealing and fresh doubts over the viability of Nabucco.…

BY GERARD O’DWYER

FOR those seduced by the idea that Nordic countries are full of healthy statuesque blond super-beings eating perfect diets and exercising regularly, it may come as something of a surprise to learn that obesity is on the rise in the region.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH and KEITH NUTHALL

IT is an important symbol of the changing focus of the European Union (EU) that the EU’s energy lobby is today regarded as an equal, if not more important than, the once feared agriculture lobby in Brussels.…

BY MARK ROWE, KEITH NUTHALL and LEAH GERMAIN

PACO Rabanne, Balenciaga and Domínguez are major Spanish figures in the global fashion world, as known for quality off-the-peg styling, but they have their roots in the country’s haute couture tradition.

For labels are not overwhelmingly dominant in Spain’s luxury clothing sector – this is a country where the talents of the sastre (tailor) and modista (dressmaker) are still highly valued.…