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EU FISHING NEWS ROUND UP



BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is to stage negotiations with the Peruvian government on forging a fishing access agreement with the European Union (EU), its first struck with a South American country. If successful, a deal would be a rich prize for EU fishermen, given the plentiful stocks that teem Peru’s deep Pacific Ocean territorial waters.…

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SPAIN TAX REFUND FOREIGN INVESTMENT EUROPEAN COMMISSION ABOLITION CALL



BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally told Spain to abolish 25% tax credits offered to Spanish companies investing abroad, claiming these benefits break European Union (EU) competition laws. Brussels has given Madrid one month to agree. If not, a formal inquiry would be opened: the first stage of legal infringement proceedings that could lead to the European Court of Justice.…

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EU EXPORT TRADE PROMOTION



BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced its latest tranche of subsidies to European Union (EU) food and drink producer organisations paying for non-EU sales promotion. They cover Euro 1.7 million on Spanish cheese, Euro 420,000 on Italian cheese and Euro 787,000 on Greek olives, amongst other products.…

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SPAIN STATE AID CHUPA CHUPS CATALONIA LOLLYPOPS



BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched a detailed investigation into whether Euro 35 million lent by the Catalonia regional government to Spanish lollypop giant Chupa Chups broke EU state subsidy rules.

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SPAIN STATE AID CHUPA CHUPS CATALONIA LOLLYPOPS



BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched a detailed investigation into whether Euro 35 million lent by the Catalonia regional government to Spanish lollypop giant Chupa Chups broke European Union (EU) state subsidy rules.

ENDS…

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INTERAMERICAN DRUG ABUSE CONTROL COMMISSION CICAD - REGIONAL ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING ORGANISATION FEATURE



BY ALAN OSBORN

IN line with the growing recognition in the 1980s of anti-money laundering campaigns as a weapon against terrorism and increased knowledge global drug supply routes, (implicating a number of Latin American countries), governments of the western hemisphere concluded that greater formal co-operation was necessary in fighting dirty money.…

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INTERAMERICAN DRUG ABUSE CONTROL COMMISSION CICAD - REGIONAL ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING ORGANISATION FEATURE



BY ALAN OSBORN

IN line with the growing recognition in the 1980s of anti-money laundering campaigns as a weapon against terrorism and increased knowledge global drug supply routes, (implicating a number of Latin American countries), governments of the western hemisphere concluded that greater formal co-operation was necessary in fighting dirty money.…

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EU WORKING TIME NURSING FEATURE EU WORKING TIME DIRECTIVE BRITAIN IMPLEMENTATION



BY ALAN OSBORN

BRITISH nurses might be forgiven for thinking that the 25 eminent judges who make up the European Union’s (EU) top legal institution, the European Court of Justice (ECJ), have little in common with them, and they may well be right.…

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ANDORRA SMALL EUROPEAN COUNTRY UNIVERSITIES RECTOR INTERVIEW SERIES



BY ALAN OSBORN

Fact box – Andorra

Population of country: 76,875 (2004)

Number of students enrolled at university: 718

Percentage of students native to the country where the university is located: 60%

Percentage of eligible population attending university: 10% (see text)

INTERNVIEW

IT’S something of a surprise to find that a country as small as Andorra has its own university, and perhaps easy to be a little patronising about it.…

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FOOD WORLD - APRIL



BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROBAROMETER FOOD POLL

WHEN EU consumers think of food, more associate it with "taste" – 31%, than with "pleasure" – 29%, "hunger" – 27%, "health" – 19% and "necessity" – 15%, said a new opinion poll from EU survey organisation Eurobarometer.…

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