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EUROPEAN COMMISSION TOLD TO DRAFT FINANCIAL TRANSACTION TAX LAW BY THE YEAR END
THE EUROPEAN Commission has finally been instructed to draft a European Union (EU) directive authorising an EU financial transaction tax, which would apply to 10 of the EU’s 28 member states.
Meeting on the margins of a Eurogroup session in Luxembourg on Monday (Oct 10), the governments of Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain agreed to push ahead with the project.…
EUROPEAN BRANDS’ KNITTING MANUFACTURE LOOKS SET TO GO LOCAL IN FUTURE
KNITTING production is likely to move away from its long-time Chinese production base and move closer to “home”, Lutz Walter, secretary general of the European Technology Platform for the Future of Textiles and Clothing (ETP) – the largest European textiles research and innovations network – told Knitting International at the 12-13 October ‘European Textiles: Going Digital – Going High-Tech’ conference in Brussels.…
BRANDED FOOD MAJORS PUSH FORWARD WITH 3D PRINTERS, BUT TECHNICAL PROGRESS IS UNEVEN
THE CONCEPT of 3D printing in the food retail sector has been under serious consideration since 2014. And while major brands and innovators are still investigating the technology, they are yet to become an integral part of their production systems and business models.…
TECHNICAL ROUND UP – BRUSSELS LAUNCHES TAX BLACKLIST ASSESSMENT
EUROPEAN COMMISSION LAUNCHES GLOBAL TAX AVOIDANCE BLACKLIST ASSESSMENT
THE EUROPEAN Commission has completed the first phase of an assessment designed to help the European Union (EU) frame its own blacklist of jurisdictions deemed un-cooperative over tax avoidance and evasion. Brussels has released a ‘scoreboard’ of non-EU jurisdictions judging whether they exchange information with foreign tax authorities, have preferential or low tax regimes, have close and important economic and financial links with the EU and are politically stable (and hence more attractive as a tax haven).…
EUROPEAN TECHNICAL TEXTILES RETAINS GROWING DEMAND AND EXPERTISE, BUT ASIAN RIVALS COULD THREATEN MARKET POSITIONS
BIG marketing stunts can boost sales of technical textiles and maybe one of the biggest examples in Europe this year was created by world renowned artists Christo. He created ‘The Floating Piers’ on Lake Iseo, near Brescia, in northern Italy.…
COMMISSION’S AID PACKAGE WILL NOT COMBAT DAIRY WOES, CHARGES INDUSTRY
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s latest EUR500 million support package for European farmers, finalised at an August 26 European Union (EU) committee in Brussels, will not ease the dairy crisis, European dairy groups have warned.
“Production cuts is the label used to describe the current package of measures,” said the EU farm lobby group European Milk Board (EMB)’s president Romuald Schaber following the initial announcement of the plans in July.…
TURKEY, CHINA AND SOUTH KOREA REMAIN EUROPEAN KNITWEAR BRANDS’ KEY SOURCING SWEETSPOTS
EUROPEAN Union (EU) knitted fabric importers are continuing to focus their sourcing overwhelmingly on Turkey, China, and South Korea, according to data released by the European Apparel and Textile Confederation (Euratex). With their low production costs, fabric expertise, and advantageous free trade agreements, these countries offer key benefits as a sourcing destination.…
TURKEY, CHINA AND SOUTH KOREA REMAIN EUROPEAN KNITWEAR BRANDS’ KEY SOURCING SWEETSPOTS
EUROPEAN Union (EU) knitted fabric importers are continuing to focus their sourcing overwhelmingly on Turkey, China, and South Korea, according to data released by the European Apparel and Textile Confederation (Euratex). With their low production costs, fabric expertise, and advantageous free trade agreements, these countries offer key benefits as a sourcing destination.…
ACCOUNTANTS MUST SIGNPOST SMALL FIRMS TO VENTURE CAPITAL, CONFERENCE TOLD
Accountants share responsibility with banks to direct their small-and-medium-sized enterprise (SME) clients towards sources of finance, a Brussels conference has been told. Rebecca McNeil, head of SME lending at Barclays, said at a July 13 Brussels conference on ‘Capital Markets Union: delivering new opportunities for SMEs through venture capital’, declared: “We all have the duty of care, banks, accountants … to signpost SMEs to sources of finance.” …
GESTAMP DEVELOPS INNOVATIVE NEW AUTOMOBILE MATERIALS AFTER MAJOR EIB LOAN
GESTAMP, a Spanish multinational specializing in metal vehicle components, is researching ways to make lighter and safer cars after acquiring funding from the European Investment Bank (EIB).
“The project activities aim at further reducing vehicle weight (contributing to lower fuel consumption and emissions) [and] improving vehicle safety, while enhancing manufacturing productivity and reducing average production cost,” a Gestamp spokesperson told wardsauto.…