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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 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.…
LATIN AMERICA’S BIGGEST MARKETS SEE SLOW BUT STEADY COATINGS SALES GROWTH
WHILE Latin America has not seen the growth witnesses by emerging markets in Asia, their paint and coatings sectors are still strengthening, and can build on a higher historic levels of prosperity than most Asian countries.
And the industry is more robust than many.…
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT WANTS A STRONGER TOBACCO PRODUCTS DIRECTIVE, BUT ECONOMIC CONCERNS MIGHT DERAIL PLANS
POLITICAL battle-lines are being drawn over the oncoming debates at the European Parliament and the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers on the shape of the revised tobacco products directive. While formal amendments have yet to be proposed, preliminary discussions are giving the industry a good idea of the challenges to be faced over the coming months.…
ART WORLD OFFERS CONDUIT FOR MONEY LAUNDERERS
Money laundering takes place in the arts world and much of it at auctions, only the arts world doesn’t like to talk about it much. And anti-money laundering (AML) experts understand the methods used. At a Paris conference held last February (2012) by the Syndicat National des Antiquaires (the French national union of antique dealers) the director of the l’Institut de Criminologie de Paris, Philippe Conte, explained how launderers would put a work up for auction, to be bought by an accomplice in cash using dirty money.…
EUROPOL ALERT AFTER MAJOR RANSOMWARE BUST
EUROPEAN Union (EU police agency Europol has warned of how to avoid fake messages from police forces defrauding computer users into paying bogus fines after a spate of con attacks. Europol has circulated this advice to EU businesses after Spanish police and the agency’s newly established European Cybercrime Centre dismantled what they called in a note “the largest and most complex cybercrime network dedicated to spreading police ransomware”.…
PROPOSED EU REFERENDUM RAISES COMMERCIAL PROPERTY UNCERTAINTY – BUT MARKET PLAYERS REMAIN CONFIDENT
WHAT impact could uncertainty in the run-up to a promised British referendum on continued membership of the European Union (EU) have on investment flows from the UK into commercial property and developments in the rest of the EU?
What might the impact be if a referendum did indeed take place and voters told their government loud and clear to quit the EU and free up the UK to make its own laws and regulations covering important aspects of finance, investment and tax?…
EU ROUND UP – EU PREPARES FOR MAJOR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE
THE EUROPEAN Commission has asked oil and gas companies to participate in a major public consultation designed to help it draft reforms promoting the development of new energy technologies. Brussels is planning to release a new policy paper on the subject in the middle of this year.…
EU OLIVE OIL ACTION PLAN BROADLY WELCOMED BY BIG EUROPEAN PRODUCERS
THE EUROPEAN Commission has put forward an action plan aimed at creating a lasting remedy for Europe’s troubled olive oil sector which has suffered a near-calamitous loss of profitability in recent years. Unveiled last June, the plan follows a sequence of temporary and not wholly successful boosts to the sector in the form of injections of private storage aid between October 2011 and May last year.…