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BY SHABTAI GOLD

THE CREW over at Top Gear, the BBC petrol-lovers show, recently declared that the Switzerland part of the Alpine mountain range has some of the best roads in the world for driving. But they were in top sports cars, costing a fortune and hardly designed for bringing farmers’ produce to the supermarkets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DESPITE being granted special emergency subsidies, Europe’s hard-pressed dairy farmers are increasing their protests across Europe. Yesterday (MONDAY 21 SEPT), a group of producers set hay on fire and spilt milk in front of the European Commission headquarters in Brussels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Canada are about to embark on detailed negotiations to upgrade their existing long-standing nuclear cooperation agreement. A key aim of the talks, European Commission and Canadian officials told World Nuclear News, was the authorisation of widespread nuclear technology transfers between the EU and Canada, which are currently tightly restricted.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THERE seems little doubt that European consumers are not only still hostile to the idea of buying products containing genetically-modified organisms (GMOs), they may actually becoming increasingly negative. They just don’t like the idea of applying creams or make-up from organisms containing genes from different and often unrelated species introduced to give them special qualities such as pest or disease resistance.…

BY ANDREW CAVE

WHO regulates money laundering at the stock exchange listings of companies around the world? If this is a beguilingly simplistic question, then the answer is anything but.

The reply depends not only upon which country one is referring to but also on which companies list in which market and in which stock exchange sector.…

BY PHILIPPA JONES, in Paris; LEE ADENDORFF, in Lucca, Italy; KARRYN MILLER, in Tokyo; and LUCY JONES, in Dallas

IT almost seems commonsense to say that an industry providing such a human product as clothing has to take account of cultural sensibilities in target markets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN researchers have created a new method to manufacture groups of different kinds of proteins they claim is much faster than traditional genetic engineering systems. A group of scientists from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), in Heidelberg, Germany, and colleagues in Britain, France, Switzerland and Sweden have called their discovery "the first fully automated pipeline for the production of multiprotein complexes", or ACEMBL, said a European Commission note.…

By Alan Osborn

A Swiss university is offering a course designed to train professionals for careers in international organisations and agencies.

Increasingly, decisions affecting the global economy, international security, the environment and even health and social matters, are being devised and put into effect by multilateral institutions, both governmental and non-governmental.…

BY MARK ROWE

The expansion of the European Union (EU) continues eastwards – and the food and drink industry of the existing EU will inevitably be affected by the new competition, as will companies in the new member countries.

The next few years are likely to see several countries accede to the EU.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

FACED with a global recession caused partly by commercial financial crime, governments have been pushed into taking action against tax evasion in recent months by ending the practice of banking secrecy. Is it the end of the road for tax havens as protected jurisdictions where illicit transactions can hide?…