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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has formally approved an updated trade deal between the EU and Switzerland allowing mutual duty free sales of cocoa powder, certain sugars, jams and other products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission will spend Euro 855,000 promoting Portuguese wine in USA, Canada, Switzerland, Norway, China and Japan. The Portuguese government and private sources will also contribute to a total promotional budget of Euro 1.7 million over three years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission under incoming energy Commissioner Lázló Kovács could look to Russia and the Ukraine as the key guarantors of Europe’s future gas and oil supplies. Kovács, a Hungarian, has told the European Parliament that he intends to establish “real cooperation” with these countries as a first priority.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WOOL grease and related fatty substances (including lanolin) will be sold duty-free between the European Union (EU) and Switzerland under an updated free trade agreement. The initial deal was struck in 1972 and was renegotiated over the past three years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced that it will spend Euro 855,000 on promoting the sale of Portuguese wine in USA, Canada, Switzerland, Norway, China and Japan. The money will be combined with money from the Portuguese government and private sources, to create a total promotional budget of Euro 1.7 million, to be spent over the next three years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SERIES of livestock products will be sold duty-free between the European Union (EU) and Switzerland under an updated free trade agreement. These include (processed and unprocessed) animal fats and oils, pigs’ bristles, poultry skin and horsehair. The initial deal was struck in 1972 and was renegotiated over the past three years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Switzerland have agreed to reduce customs duties on their mutual trade in finishing agents, dye carriers (including fixers), and dyestuffs for textiles and leather. The liberalisation is part of a complex updating of an already complicated trade deal struck between Brussels and Berne in 1972.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DETAILED agreement on mutual cooperation against fraud has been negotiated between the European Union (EU) and Switzerland. The deal now awaits confirmation from the Swiss federal parliament and the EU Council of Ministers before it comes into affect, probably next year.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
AS recently as 1989 Yugoslavia was the richest and most westernised country in eastern and central Europe and arguably among the more politically stable of them. But then came the collapse. The ethnic fighting of the early 1990s led to breakaways by Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina as independent states in 1992, leaving Serbia and Montenegro as the “Federal Republic of Yugoslavia” under Slobodan Milosevic.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) network of research institutions investigating the safety and health effects of phytoestrogens has been created by the European Commission; called Phytohealth, it will especially check whether phytoestrogens prevent cancer. The compounds are found in plant foods, such as beans, cabbage, flax seed, rye, berries, grains and soya products, (including soya milk, tofu and miso).…