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BY KEITH NUTHALL

VOLKSWAGEN has won a phyrric victory at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which has granted it a limited right to use the trademark Variant in Spain, in the teeth of opposition from the country’s Nacional Motor SA.…

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.…

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.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROBAROMETER FOOD POLL

WHEN EU consumers think of food, more associate it with "taste" – 31%, than with "pleasure" – 29%, "hunger" – 27%, "health" – 19% and "necessity" – 15%, said a new opinion poll from EU survey organisation Eurobarometer.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

INSOLVENT businesses within the European Union (EU) may not transfer bankruptcy cases to a different member state, simply by the owner moving from their home country, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled. Its EU-wide precedent followed a case involving a German businesswoman who closed a telecommunications business, and then launched insolvency proceedings regarding her assets in Wuppertal.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

THE MEDIA rush to pick up on the revival of nuclear energy as a serious UK option, made plain in the Department of Trade and Industry’s recent Energy Review consultation document, has diverted attention from which tail will, in practice, be wagging the UK energy dog over the coming months.…

BY WESLEY GIBBINGS, in Port of Spain

THE NEW national university for the Caribbean archipelago of Trinidad & Tobago has distributed 500 degrees and diplomas and five honorary doctorates even before construction of a main campus building has been completed. The apparent anomaly is partially explained by the fact that the new University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) has assimilated the teaching staff, building and student population of the now-defunct, Trinidad-government Institute of Technology (TTIT) back in 2003.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has censured Spain for failing to keep water standards sufficiently unpolluted in the key mussel production region of Galicia. Judges agreed with the European Commission that Spain should have established a shellfish-focused water pollution prevention plan, under the terms of the European Union’s (EU) shellfish water directive (79/923/EEC).…

BY ALAN OSBORN

OUT of 60 recommendations made in a report last December by the European Parliament on strategies to prevent human trafficking only one specifically mentioned money laundering and even there the message was essentially "carry on as before" and "keep your eyes open".…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

IN the next few weeks, contracts are expected to be signed for the UK debut of a pioneering underground waste collection system that can also build recycling into the operation from the outset. If it proves successful here, it could see a marked reduction in the bulky collection banks that are such a feature of today’s built environment.…