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THE FEDERATION of European Publishers (FEP) has welcomed this weekend’s World Trade Organisation (WTO) deal on reducing import-export red tape.

Speaking to The Bookseller, FEP deputy director Enrico Turrin told the Bookseller: “It can only help. Anything that helps remove barriers will facilitate trade.”…

AN INTERNATIONAL higher education conference has underlined the major progress made in building links between the universities of neighbouring countries in Latin America. But it also highlighted the significant remaining challenges facing Latin American higher education if it wants to be truly integrated with tertiary institutions worldwide.…

LEADING law associations worldwide are joining forces to publish in-depth case studies of how lawyers and other legal professionals become unwittingly enmeshed in money laundering by clients.

The Money Laundering Bulletin has learned that the London-based International Bar Association (IBA) is to produce such a report amid disgruntlement over a June 2013 study in which the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) published typologies of money laundering methods in which lawyers were involved.…

EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Canadian oil exporters are to benefit from a new free trade deal struck between the EU and Canada. Once the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) has been ratified (probably in 2015), it will lead to all existing non-food duties imposed on goods traded between the parties being scrapped.…

TOUGH economic times in Europe’s tourism centres of Spain and Greece have depressed air travel to and from these countries, recently released European Union (EU)-wide statistics from EU statistical agency Eurostat show. It said flights to and from Spain fell by 3.3% to 160 million in 2012, with 8.9% year-on-year falls in traffic at Madrid-Barajas airport and 6.6% at Gran Canaria; flights to and from Greece fell 5.5% to 31 million year-on-year, with a 10.2% decline at Athens International.…

E-books now look more like evolution than a revolution in Spain. Overall sales of books were Euro EUR2.47 billion last year, down 10.9% on 2011 and 28.9% below 2008. E-book sales were EUR74.3 million, just 3% of the sector, representing 54,714 copies sold.…

Discussions are scheduled over the next week between management and unions as the indefinite strike that has halted production at Spanish baker Panrico’s Santa Perpètua de Mogoda factory in Barcelona since October 13 continues. Discussions centre on a viability plan put forward by management.…

Any market and industry benefits from supply diversification, so major textile and clothing companies can take heart from continued innovation amongst fibre and fabric producers over sourcing. This extends, for instance, to sourcing material from unusual places such as milk and fishing nets, while creating more opportunities for traditional sources such as flax.…

SPAIN has banned added sugar from fruit juices and nectars effective October 28, 2013 in line with the European Union (EU) juices directive 2012/12/EU. New rules for making, labelling, presenting and advertising juices and similar products also require identifying the amount of individual juices within mixtures.…

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) food and feed safety rapid alert network (RASFF) has warned of continued detections of salmonella contamination of imported meat and meat products across Europe. In most instances, consignments were exported from other EU member states. It reported six salmonella meat contamination cases between October 21 and 24 for instance.…