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BY KEITH NUTHALL
TOO many cooks spoil the broth. Or do they? As far as the world’s fight against money laundering is concerned, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund think that they can bring extra flavour to the struggle waged by the OECD’s Financial Action Task Force (FATF).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WATER privatisation has certainly had its critics, but it has a new supporter in the shape of the European Commission. It has publicly backed the growing privatisation of Europe’s water utilities, with its internal market commissioner praising British government moves to inject competition into its national sector.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is lending the Russian subsidiary of IKEA US$100 million to finance Russia’s first combined mega-shopping and entertainment complex. It will be built on the outskirts of Moscow and will be Russia’s largest shopping mall, covering 170,000 square metres.…

BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIAN veterinary officials have started inspecting US poultry exporters for the first time since new American sanitary guidelines came into force on September 15. Russia, the largest market for US poultry producers, banned imports of American poultry in March over concerns about production methods and salmonella.…

BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIAN veterinary officials have started inspecting US poultry exporters for the first time since new American sanitary guidelines came into force on September 15. Russia, the largest market for US poultry producers, banned imports of American poultry in March over concerns about production methods and salmonella.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RUSSIAN government has been pressing the European Union (EU) for a promise that it will not impose cap on its gas imports preventing it buying more than 30 per cent of its supplies from one non-EU exporter, papers released at last week’s EU-Russia summit in Brussels have revealed.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE FORMER Russian Energy Minister Viktor Kalyuzhny has warned the country’s major oil companies against further big boosts in output. Mr Kalyuzhny said Russia lacked enough proven oil reserves to justify existing ambitious plans for double-digit output growth over the next five years.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE “CE” mark, denoting that a product was made in the European Union, is being abused by unscrupulous manufacturers and traders and is giving legitimate companies a bad name according to delegates at a recent international forum on market surveillance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved Germany’s controversial Euro 647 million state aid injection to TotalFina Elf subsidiary Mitteldeutsche Erdöl Raffinerie for constructing the Leuna 2000 refinery in Saxony-Anhalt. Brussels had re-examined the project and has now cleared all aid, including Euro 61.4 million, which had been blocked pending the decision.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is lending Russia’s largest zinc smelter US$12 million to help it eliminate mercury emissions and drastically reduce emissions of sulphur oxydes. The six -year loan to the Chelyabinsk zinc smelter, is the bank’s second in two years; it will finance the construction of a mercury recovery plant and a sulphuric acid plant under the second phase of a modernisation scheme.…