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BY KEITH NUTHALL

REFORMS to the European Union’s (EU) cotton subsidy system have been approved two years after previous changes were outlawed by the European Court of Justice. It ruled these 2004 reforms had been flawed through a lack of impact assessments and consultation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRITAIN has one of the European Union’s (EU) worst rates of salmonella contamination of slaughtered pigs, a new study from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has found. Analysing data collected from 2006 to 2007, the EU agency has concluded that 21.2% of slaughtered pigs within the UK had contracted the disease, compared to an EU-wide average of 10.3%.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo

THE OBSESSION among many European women for tanned skin is fading, particularly among women in their late 30s, according to a new study by Japan’s Kanebo Cosmetics, meaning there is a small but growing market for whitening products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

GERMANY’S largest vineyard has been ordered by the European Commission to repay Euro 541,859 in illegal subsidies paid by its owner – the regional government of Hesse. Following a detailed investigation, Brussels has concluded that the writing off of losses made by Hessische Staatsweingüter until December 2002 broke European Union (EU) state aid rules and so must be repaid, with interest.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

LAST May, a coordinated attack on essential computer networks in the tiny Baltic republic of Estonia set nerves upon edge amongst European Internet security specialists. Following the removal of a Russian war memorial from the centre of its capital Tallinn, a still unidentified group of computer users bombarded Estonian political, government, media and banking websites with so much data, they were forced offline.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

GERMANY’S largest vineyard has been ordered by the European Commission to repay Euro 541,859 in illegal subsidies paid by its owner – the regional government of Hesse. Meanwhile, major Spain wine producer J. Garcia Carrion La Mancha may have to repay Euro 14.5 million in subsidies from the Spanish state for improving plant – Brussels is investigating the handout.…

BY PAUL RIGG, in Madrid

THE DOMINANT event in the Spanish Tobacco Market in 2008 has been Imperial Tobacco’s takeover of the Franco-Spanish company Altadis. Following a series of rebuffed bids in 2007, the widely predicted buyout was finalised on January 30, 2008.…

BY LIZ HALL, in Alicante

SPAIN is no stranger to the threat of terrorism. For decades its soil has been the scene of terrorism at the hands of Basque independence group ETA. Increasingly, however, the threat from ETA appears to being outweighed by that of terrorist activity from Islamic extremists.…

BY KENCHO WANGDI, in Thimphu, Bhutan; JUHEL BROWNE, in Port of Spain, Trinidad; BILL CORCORAN, in Johannesburg; and KEITH NUTHALL

THE RISING price in oil has hit the prosperity of many companies, communities and countries, but it is the world’s poorest people, living in what the United Nations calls least developed countries that are suffering the most.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SINCE the September 11 attacks, the control of terrorist financing has been an international policing priority. But businesses also need to be aware of the risks. Keith Nuthall reports.

TERRORISM may be an exceptional crime, but the money required to stage violent attacks on the public is – ultimately – just money.…