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EURELECTRIC NEW SECRETARY GENERAL SAYS EU RENEWABLE ENERGY AMBITIONS ARE UNREALISTIC
BY CHRISTOPHER JONES, in Brussels
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) headline-grabbing proposals to reduce EU carbon emissions by 20% by 2020 could prove overly ambitious, according to the new secretary general of Eurelectric, the industry association representing the electricity industry at the EU level.…
CHUPA CHUPS SUBSIDIES APPROVED BY EUROPEAN COMMISSION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EURO 35 million Catalonia regional government loan to Spanish confectionary producer Chupa Chups was legal under European Union state aid laws, the European Commission has concluded. After an inquiry, it concluded just Euro 900,000 subsidies were illegal aid, ordering a repayment of only Euro 100,000.…
INTERNATIONAL ROUND UP - GUINEA BISSAU FISHING ACCESS AGREEMENT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has signed another fishing access deal with a weak African state – this time with west Africa’s Guinea Bissau, which has recently been criticised for being a staging point for Europe-bound illegal narcotics from south America.…
MONEY SERVICE BUSINESSES AND BUREAUX DE CHANGE STRUGGLE WITH EU MONEY LAUNDERING REGULATIONS
BY ALAN OSBORN
ONE consequence of the growing sophistication of anti-money laundering procedures at the major banks in Europe in recent years is that criminals have turned increasingly to less regulated channels such as bureaux de change and money service businesses to hide criminal proceeds.…
CHUPA CHUPS SUBSIDIES APPROVED BY EUROPEAN COMMISSION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EURO 35 million Catalonia regional government loan to Spanish confectionary producer Chupa Chups was legal under European Union state aid laws, the European Commission has concluded. After an inquiry, it concluded just Euro 900,000 subsidies were illegal aid, ordering a repayment of only Euro 100,000.…
EURELECTRIC NEW SECRETARY GENERAL SAYS EU RENEWABLE ENERGY AMBITIONS ARE UNREALISTIC
BY CHRISTOPHER JONES, in Brussels
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) headline-grabbing proposals to reduce EU carbon emissions by 20% by 2020 could prove overly ambitious, according to the new secretary general of Eurelectric, the industry association representing the electricity industry at the EU level.…
INTERNATIONAL ROUND UP - GUINEA BISSAU FISHING ACCESS AGREEMENT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has signed another fishing access deal with a weak African state – this time with west Africa’s Guinea Bissau, which has recently been criticised for being a staging point for Europe-bound illegal narcotics from south America.…
NEW SOLAR POWER TECHNOLOGY IS COMING TO EUROPE, CUTTING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
BY MATTHEW BRACE
ALTERNATIVE green energy is taking a big step forward in Europe, with the introduction of the European Union’s (EU) first commercial concentrating solar power (CSP) plant. The 11 megawatt facility, near Seville in Spain, will produce electricity using more than 600 movable mirrors which follow and concentrate the sun’s rays.…
SPANISH GOVERNMENT REBUFFED BY EU JUDGES AGAIN OVER FISHING RIGHTS ROW
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SPANISH government claims that European Union (EU) Common Fisheries Policy conservation and monitoring controls agreed in 2003 were illegal because its representatives were not invited to a key committee meeting in the Spanish language have been rejected by the European Court of Justice.…
FRANCE TOBACCO INDUSTRY STRIVES TO MAINTAIN PROFITABILITY DESPITE UNPRECEDENTED SMOKING RESTRICTIONS
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE FRENCH tobacco market is astir and it’s quite possible that such iconic brands as Gitanes and Gauloise, part of the Franco-Spanish Altardis group with some 30% of the French cigarette market, will no longer be independently owned by the year-end.…