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EU OIL AND GAS ROUND UP - KROES COMPETITION, ESA SATELLITE, EFTA - GCC DEAL, FRANCE, SPAIN, ITALY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) competition commissioner has indicated she could push for regulatory reform to improve competition in EU energy markets, in parallel with legal enforcement action using existing rules. Neelie Kroes highlighted "bundling of generation, supply, pipelines, grids, and distribution (as) at the heart of the current EU energy market failure."…
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.…
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.…
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.…
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…
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.…
SHOE PRODUCTION POLYURETHANE MICROWAVE MONITORING TECHNOLOGY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A RESEARCH and development consortium supported by the European Union (EU) is preparing to commercially launch a microwave sensor that can detect faults in moulded polyurethane before it hardens into heels and outer soles. The Microshoe project aimed to reduce defective parts, which can account for 20% of polyurethane created by shoe manufacturers, increasing costs markedly.…
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.…
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.…