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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank has created an anti-corruption department that will investigate allegations of fraud within the organisation’s staff or in projects it funds. The bank has recently appointed a director of the department, Maarten de Jong, a Dutchman, Managing Director of the European Institute for Law Enforcement Cooperation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEMBER governments of the World Trade Organisation are to examine in detail proposals made by the USA and the EU administrations on the dismantling of bureaucratic barriers that hinder companies wanting to sell IT and telecommunications services abroad.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE EUROPEAN Commission is be investigating trends in Syrian cotton exports which have been booming since 1996, when sales went from almost nil in 1996 to 10 per cent of the EU’s total cotton yarn imports in 2000.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has lifted all quotas on imports of clothing products from Ukraine, following confirmation that Ukraine has lowered its tariff levels for EU textile exports, as agreed last year.

Brussels has also removed restrictive textile quotas for Sri Lankan clothing exports.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union and India have agreed that Brussels has until August 14, this year, to implement the rulings of the WTO disputes settlement body, that found that the EU had wrongfully imposed anti-dumping duties on imports of Indian cotton-type bed linen.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States and the European Union are poised for another battle of wits at the World Trade Organisation, over the rights of governments to protect their own audio-visual sectors, especially through the use of subsidies.

WTO members are about to examine in detail proposals made by the USA on the liberalisation of the international audio-visual sector, which it wants to promote through the ongoing WTO round on service industries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Agency for Reconstruction – the EU group responsible for Kosovo development aid – has earmarked Euro 35 million from its budget for improvements to the province’s Bardh and Mirash coal mines. Euro 2.9 million has already been spent on rehabilitating the conveyor belt between Bardh and the Kosovo B power station, which had not been working effectively, especially since the 1999 war.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE ACQUISITION by the French steel company Usinor of a controlling 55 per cent stake in Tubisud of Italy has been cleared by the European Commission. The Commission said that while the deal would increase the presence of Usinor in the Italian markets for organically coated steel sheet and the distribution of steel, it would not significantly reduce competition.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has denied claims that it has been funding anti-Semitic textbooks used in the Palestinian Authority’s education service, even though the EU bankrolls 50 per cent of the nascent government’s budget.

MEP’s have been sent examples of Palestinian textbooks that include passages such as “Treachery and disloyalty are character traits of the Jews and therefore one should beware of them.”…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE EUROPEAN Commission has agreed to allow Canadian ice-wine, the specialised dessert wine made from frozen grapes, to be sold within the EU, after a long battle to have the designation of recognised by Brussels was finally won.…