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ARGENTINE ECONOMIC PROTECTIONISM HINDERING E-BOOK SALES
The Argentine government’s economic protectionism is thwarting the growth of e-book sales, experts at the International Book Fair in Buenos Aires said this week.
The country’s 39th book fair, which ended on Monday, was attended by a total of 1.1 million people, said fair organisers.…
OVERCAPACITY MAY LEAD TO FURTHER LAYOFFS, EUROPEAN CAR INDUSTRY BOSS WARNS
THE EUROPEAN car manufacturing industry has overcapacity stretching to 30% to 35% and this may lead to further layoffs, Ivan Hodac, secretary general of the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) has warned. Speaking in an exclusive interview with wardsauto from his office in Brussels, the European car industry boss said: “We cannot continue running this industry with 15 to 20 factories [operating at] below 50% of their capacities.”…
CONTINENTAL EUROPE OFFERS TECHNICAL GOOD PRACTICE FOR UK ROAD MAINTENANCE
THERE are many ways to maintain and repair a road, so it always makes sense to look widely at good practice examples. Here The Surveyor has used its foreign correspondent team to assess techniques in some diverse pars of continental Europe.…
EUROPEAN POWER PLAYERS COME TOGETHER TO DISCUSS MEDITERRANEAN ENERGY MARKET HOLY GRAIL
THE ARAB Spring may have increased short-term doubts about the political stability of Europe’s southern and eastern Mediterranean neighbours, but the long-term case for energy cooperation between these regions is surely unarguable.
Europe needs more energy than it can generate, and it has (for the time being at least) money to buy energy from north Africa and the Levant.…
EU ENERGY NETWORK PROJECT PRIORITIES TAKE SHAPE
SUMMER 2013 marks an important milestone in the evolution of the European Union (EU) regulatory framework and financial support for Trans-European Energy Networks (TEN-E) that will contribute towards the European Commission’s goal of a single-energy market for gas and electricity. Oil and carbon dioxide (CO2) transport from carbon capture and storage systems also figure in the picture.…
ARCTIC COUNTRIES JOSTLE FOR POSITION OVER OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION CONTROLS
WHEN a titanium Russian flag was audaciously planted on the seabed 4,200m below the North Pole in 2007, it took the world by surprise, suggesting Russia was serious in its claims to the Arctic.
Russia is not alone. In all five Arctic coastal nations – the USA, Canada, Norway, Russia and Denmark (through Greenland) have laid claims to a slice of the Arctic.…
EU MOVE AGAINST US BIOFUEL IMPORTS TRIGGERS FEARS OF FURTHER TRADE REMEDY MEASURES
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) recent decision to impose antidumping duties on imports of bioethanol from the United States is triggering fears that trade remedy measures may become the new tool of choice for protecting domestic biofuel producers from foreign competitors.
EU ministers decided on February 18 to impose a definitive (long-term) antidumping duty of Euro EUR0.63 cents per metric tonne on US bioethanol imports in response to a complaint from the European Renewable Ethanol Association (ePURE).…
TOP POLITICIAN ‘ACCUSED’ IN MASSIVE EURO MONEY FRAUD IN SPAIN
THE PRESIDENT of the Andalucía regional government in Spain has been publicly accused of being a key figure in a EUR130 million-plus scandal involving the alleged fraudulent use of Spanish public and European Union (EU) funds. In a case rocking the socialist party the PSOE, the main opposition in the national government, investigating judge Mercedes Alaya has ordered that Andalucía’s former director general of employment, Francisco Javier Guerrero, should remain in jail without bail.…
OAS’ CICAD IS KEY AML PLAYER IN THE AMERICAS
The Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD), a technical agency of the Organisation of American States (OAS), is playing an increasingly influential role in the Americas in terms of fighting drug-trade linked money laundering. Specifically, CICAD has a central role in the unfolding of the Hemispheric Plan of Action on Drugs 2011-2015 which was adopted by the OAS in 2011, and includes key anti-money launderingAML components.…
TO REDUCE EUROPEAN DEFICITS: STEP ONE - REDUCE CORRUPTION, SAY EXPERTS
CORRUPTION costs the European Union (EU) EUR323 billion a year, three times more than previous estimates, a study by the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, Germany, and the Brussels office of Germany’s Bertelsmann Stiftung (Foundation) suggests. In an April 9 report to the European Parliament, Hertie and Bertelsmann Stiftung calculated that EU member states could increase annual tax revenues by roughly this much if they reduced corruption to levels found in Denmark, ranked by Bertelsmann Stiftung as the least corrupt in the EU.…