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TRINIDAD MAKES PROGRESS IN FIGHTING ITS HOME GROWN ISLAMIC TERROR GROUP
BY JAMES FULLER
MANY nations have has to review their anti-terrorist financing systems and laws since the September 11 attacks in America, with its implications stretching around the world, even to regions usually untouched by political terror, such as the Caribbean.…
ANTI-COUNTERFEITING PACT DEBATED
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GROUP of influential countries are debating forging an international anti-counterfeiting of goods agreement, fighting fake food and drink products. Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States have been discussing the idea.…
NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA COSMETICS DEMAND BLENDING INTO A REGIONAL AUSTRALASIAN MARKET
BY KARRYN CARTELLE
SEPARATED by a short plane ride across the Tasman Sea, Australia and New Zealand are clearly two distinct countries – in the physical sense – but when it comes to the cosmetics industry in these neighbouring lands it is clear that things are merging into one.…
DOHA TALKS COLLAPSE AFTER NINE DAY MARATHON NEGOTIATIONS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round negotiations appear to have broken down after nine days of tough, but ultimately fruitless negotiations, WTO officials told just-food.com. Diplomats were at 6.30pm GMT filing into a meeting of the WTO trade negotiations committee, expected to decide what happens next.…
EU REGULATORS UNITED IN OPPOSITION TO EUROPEAN COMMISSION VETO PLANS
BY CHRIS JONES
EUROPEAN Union (EU) telecommunications Commissioner Viviane Reding faces significant opposition to her proposals for increasing the European Commission’s power of veto over national telecoms regulations (NRAs) and the creation of a new Europe-wide regulatory agency.
NRAs in the 27 member states, which together form the European Regulators’ Group (ERG), have made it quite clear that any attempt by Reding to undermine their authority will face fierce resistance.…
EUROPE: European education good but more needed
By Alan Osborn
The 27 EU member states will have to speed up their educational progress if they are to meet a range of self-imposed targets deemed necessary if the Lisbon strategy for growth and jobs is to be successful by 2010.…
BRAZIL LEARNS FROM EXPERIENCE TO CREATE A SUSTAINABLE AND STRONG BIOFUELS SECTOR
BY PACIFICA GODDARD
AS the price of petroleum climbs increasingly makes alternative energy sources such as biofuels sound increasingly attractive to many countries that had dismissed them in the past, Brazil, the largest consumer of ethanol in the world with over 30 years of experience developing their biofuels industry, has many lessons to offer.…
BRAZIL IS MAINSTAY OF LATIN AMERICA KNITTING INDUSTRY
BY PACIFICA GODDARD
CHINA’S entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2002 and the recent end of quotas in the US and European markets have created gigantic changes in the textile industry worldwide, with developing markets like those in Latin America expected to suffer the most from these shifts.…
EUROPEAN COMMISSION LAYS GROUNDWORK FOR EUROPEAN AUTO ECOLABELLING SYSTEM
BY MARK ROWE
EUROPEAN car manufacturers could face new requirements in future to subscribe to a continent-wide eco-labeling scheme. Across the European Union (EU), several products are already subject to ratings on their environmental sustainability and are required to meet benchmarks for good environmental performance, the sustainable production and consumption of products, and the sustainable provision and use of services.…
BALKANS ENERGY COMMUNITY AIMS TO LINK FRACTURED REGION'S POWER SUPPLY WITH WESTERN EUROPEAN NETWORKS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE POLITICAL map of Europe these days looks very blue. Most of it (discounting Russia) is part of the European Union (EU) and those countries that have yet to join are increasingly the odd men out.
The European Commission and its fellow EU institutions are keen on some of these countries becoming members and less keen on others, but the countries that are almost destined to join the EU (if they want to) are those surrounded by EU territory.…