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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission will spend Euro millions over the next three years promoting French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German and Austrian wines in key foreign markets. Announcing the latest of a series of such grants, (matched by national funding), Brussels noted that the main targets would be north America, China, Russia, India, Japan and non-European Union countries in central and eastern Europe.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE HOT topic in Gibraltar’s financial circles at present is Spain’s accusation that the Rock’s authorities have not been co-operating in the fight against money laundering. This is not an unfamiliar charge in the perpetual diplomatic row between Madrid and the British territory, but the latest airing of it has gained extra bite because of the enormous scale of the alleged crime, according to local newspaper reports, to run up to Euro 600 million and maybe more.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission will spend the majority of a new Euro 5 million budget over the next three years promoting French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German and Austrian wines in key foreign markets. Brussels noted that the main targets would be north America, China, Russia, India, Japan and non-European Union countries in central and eastern Europe.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
PRESIDENT George W Bush’s re-election last November has pretty well ruled out any change in the US ban on Cuban cigars for the next four years – if anything, things are likely to get tougher. One of the last things the previous Bush administration did last October was to actually tighten the import ban by barring Americans travelling to Cuba from bringing back up to US$100 dollars worth of Cuban cigars.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SPANISH government has called for some simplification and flexibility in the implementation of the recent European Union (EU) reforms to its subsidy regime for leaf tobacco growers. It has called on the EU Council of Ministers (agriculture) to allow single payments to be made to producers for the 2005 harvest to avoid calculation problems relating to the transfer of quotas from one grower to another and national reserves of subsidies controlled by governments.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NORWAY’S alcohol advertising ban has been undermined by a European Free Trade Area (EFTA) Court ruling, which says that the Norwegian Alcohol Act breaks trade freedom rules of the European Economic Area (EEA) agreement. The act could be justified only, said the ruling, “where the protection of public health against the harmful effects of alcohol can be secured by measures having less effect on intra-EEA trade”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved a new fishing access deal with Madagascar, allowing Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese to catch tuna in its Indian Ocean waters until December 2006. The EU will pay Madagascar Euro 825,000 this year and next to compensate it for the loss of fish.…

BY LIZ HALL
SPAIN’S paint and coating industry has every right to be self-congratulatory at present: the widespread investment and business improvements of recent years have paid off with the sector securing a well-earned place alongside its counterparts elsewhere in the developed world.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is taking the Spanish government to the European Court of Justice (ECJ), asking judges to order Madrid to conduct environmental assessments into sand extraction it allows along the Spanish Mediterranean coast. Brussels said under European law, Spain should have in particular protected EU-registered Natura 2000 conservation sites.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SPANISH government is likely to lose a European Court of Justice (ECJ) battle with the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers to secure additional fishing rights in coastal waters around the Atlantic frontier between Spain and France.…