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EU WORKING TIME NURSING FEATURE EU WORKING TIME DIRECTIVE BRITAIN IMPLEMENTATION
BY ALAN OSBORN
BRITISH nurses might be forgiven for thinking that the 25 eminent judges who make up the European Union’s (EU) top legal institution, the European Court of Justice (ECJ), have little in common with them, and they may well be right.…
INTERAMERICAN DRUG ABUSE CONTROL COMMISSION CICAD - REGIONAL ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING ORGANISATION FEATURE
BY ALAN OSBORN
IN line with the growing recognition in the 1980s of anti-money laundering campaigns as a weapon against terrorism and increased knowledge global drug supply routes, (implicating a number of Latin American countries), governments of the western hemisphere concluded that greater formal co-operation was necessary in fighting dirty money.…
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.…
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.…
EUANTI-DUMPING DUTIES CHINA SHOE EXPORTS - EUROPEAN COMMISSION
BY ALAN OSBORN
European Commission officials confirmed today (Monday) that anti-dumping duties of around 20% on leather shoes from China and other Asian countries will be proposed this week. The move follows close monitoring by Brussels of sales from China and Vietnam over the past 12 months which found there was an average subsidy of 8.5 Euros per pair of shoes.…
SPAIN STATE AID CHUPA CHUPS CATALONIA LOLLYPOPS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched a detailed investigation into whether Euro 35 million lent by the Catalonia regional government to Spanish lollypop giant Chupa Chups broke European Union (EU) state subsidy rules.
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EU COUNCIL OF MINISTERS SPAIN NETHERLANDS ITALY VAT LEVYING ANTI-FRAUD WASTE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SPECIAL VAT rules designed to drive tax evasion from the European Union (EU) materials recycling sector have been approved for Spain, Italy and the Netherlands. The EU Council of Ministers has allowed all three countries to derogate from standard VAT rules until December 2009.…
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.…
SPAIN STATE AID CHUPA CHUPS CATALONIA LOLLYPOPS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched a detailed investigation into whether Euro 35 million lent by the Catalonia regional government to Spanish lollypop giant Chupa Chups broke EU state subsidy rules.
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CFATF - CARIBBEAN REGIONAL ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING ORGANISATION
BY WESLEY GIBBINGS, in Port of Spain, Trinidad
WITH its multiple small jurisdictions, offshore tax havens and proximity to both drug producing countries in Latin America and the United States, the Caribbean has always been a focus of global anti-money laundering efforts.…