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GERMAN CONVERTING INDUSTRY BUSY INNOVATING DESPITE RECESSION
BY ANCA GURZU
ALTHOUGH the economic effects of recession can be felt in different sectors of the German converting industry, its companies have been busy launching new innovations, equipment and technologies aimed at energy-saving, waste-reduction and increased productivity. The printing sectors were notably active in 2009.…
FIRST EU JUSTICE COMMISSIONER MAY REALISE GOAL OF CREATING EUROPEAN PUBIC PROSECUTOR POST
BY DAVID HAWORTH
IT is, perhaps, a sign of the European Union’s (EU) growing role in fighting crime: from February, it will have its first justice Commissioner. David Haworth reports from Brussels on how a new 27-member European Commission that should take office on February 9 might fight commercial crime.…
EUROPE: LERU REPORT ADVOCATES BETTER RESEARCH WORKING CONDITIONS
BY EMMA JACKSON
With a new EU research Commissioner about to be appointed and lobbying expected to be underway soon over the shape of the next eighth EU framework programme on research, the League of European Research Universities (LERU) has released a major report "Harvesting talent: strengthening research careers in Europe."…
BULGARIAN CANDIDATE REJECTED FOR COMMISSIONER POST
BY DAVID HAWORTH
EUROPEAN Parliament members have claimed one scalp over ethical concerns from among the 27 European Commission candidates, who will begin five-year terms on February 9. Rumiana Jeleva, Bulgarian foreign minister, took the lawmakers’ hit after being strongly quizzed about her business interests.…
LIQUORICE REMAINS NORTHERN GERMAN FAVOURITE - SHUNNED BY SOUTHERN CO-PATRIOTS
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE TASTE for liquorice is surprisingly well defined in geographical terms in Germany and its neighbouring countries. There seems to be a cut-off point at the Rhine Valley. "They don’t like the taste in the southern part of Germany and if you go south of the Rhine valley you don’t find liquorice products in the shops," said Jens Milt, head of the liquorice division at the leading German liquorice supplier Alfred L Wolff, based in Hamburg.…
World's highest mountain plays host to climate change cabinet meeting
Anil Giri, in Kathmandu
Ahead of the UN Conference on climate change, in Copenhagen, the Nepalese
government has held a cabinet meeting at the foot of Mount Everest to bring
attention to the impact of climate change on the Himalayas.
The meeting comes after the government of the Maldives hosted a similarly
unusual cabinet meeting (in that case underwater in the Indian Ocean), where
they urged the international community to cut their carbon dioxide
emissions. The Maldives have long been at risk from global warming-linked
sea level rises, which threaten to drown the small islands.…
ITALIAN WINE SECTOR BOOSTS QUALITY TO SEIZE EXPORTS AMIDST DECLINING DOMESTIC MARKET
BY LEE ADENDORFF, ERIC LYMAN and KEITH NUTHALL
INTRODUCTION
THE ITALIAN wine industry hit rock bottom a generation ago, when thousands of bottles of Italian wine were found laced with deadly levels of methanol, a key ingredient in antifreeze that had been used to raise the alcohol content of the wine.…
GREECE AND ITALY FARE POORLY IN LATEST TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CORRUPTION in Greece is now considered as bad as in Romania and Bulgaria – European Union (EU) member states investigated by the European Commission over graft. Greece’s slide from 57th in last year’s Transparency International (TI) corruption perception index to 71st in this year’s report will concern its new left-wing PASOK government.…
COMMERCIAL CRIMES ON THE CLIMB IN REMOTE BHUTAN
BY KENCHO WANGDI
NESTLED against the Himalayas, Bhutan was one of the last oases of isolation, untouched by commercialism and capitalism. But in the last decade, things have changed, and Bhutan has embraced all the joys of the modern world – and the crime.…
PUBLIC PROCUREMENT OUTSIDE THE EU - A TOUGH CALL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ONE of the lynchpins of the European Union’s (EU) single market is its public procurement rules, which try to ensure pubic authorities, and some utilities and transmission operators, openly tender for their major purchases. The aim is that all EU suppliers have a fair crack of the whip in offering them goods and services.…