Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
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| 1. Anger at new banking secrecy list | April 3, 2009 |
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OECD list includes Austria, Luxembourg and Switzerland; all three hit out at decision. Austria, Luxembourg and Switzerland have strongly criticised their inclusion on a... | |
| 2. Commission shelves plan to cut tax on green products | April 2, 2009 |
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Concern that VAT savings would not be passed on; hopes of progress on banking secrecy. The European Commission has abandoned plans to present a proposal for reduced VAT... | |
| 3. Closing loopholes remains tricky | March 19, 2009 |
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Tax havens have made some concessions, but some EU states want more. The announcements by Switzerland, Liechtenstein and other alleged tax havens that they will increase the... |
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| 4. Increased co-operation to tackle tax evasion | March 13, 2009 |
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Information to be shared with foreign authorities but banking secrecy to be maintained Switzerland, Austria and Luxembourg announced today (13 March) that they will increase... | |
| 5. EU moves towards detoxifying banks | March 1, 2009 |
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Summit stresses need for action on ‘toxic' assets; some EU leaders press for crack-down on tax havens. EU leaders said that they would pursue a co-ordinated approach to... | |
| 6. EU rejects plans for new GM crops | February 25, 2009 |
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Bid to allow two new GM crops into the EU is blocked; just one form of GM crop is allowed in the EU. A committee of experts from EU nations has rejected a proposal to allow... | |
| 7. French and Greek GM bans remain | February 16, 2009 |
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Commission's bid to force France and Greece to end ban on only GM crop allowed in Europe fails to secure member states' backing.
France and Greece can continue to ban the... | |
| 8. France fined over GM law | December 9, 2008 |
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Six-year delay in France's adoption of controversial rules on genetically modified crops lands it a €10 million fine from the EU's top court.
The European Court of... | |
| 9. Drop in genetically modified crops grown in EU | September 30, 2008 |
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Decline is due to French ban; elsewhere there were large increases in the one type of GM crop allowed in the EU.
The area of European farmland sown with genetically... | |
| 10. Commission study finds no harm from GM food | September 4, 2008 |
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Report set to counter positions of those who commissioned it. There is no evidence that genetically modified foods have harmful effects on public health, according to an... | |
| 11. From unfulfilled promises to no promises? | July 4, 2008 |
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The G8 set themselves goals in 2005 that they have failed to deliver on. They are now threatening, it seems, not even to make promises.
The figures on youth poverty... | |
| 12. Consumer support for GM food is shrinking | May 22, 2008 |
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Consumers are not increasingly accepting genetically modified foods; in fact, support for their use has fallen. I would like to correct some of the factual inaccuracies... |
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| 13. Commission to reject GM maize varieties | April 30, 2008 |
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Upcoming debate on biotech policy likely to result in bar on two types of maize. The European Commission is likely to refuse permission for two companies to grow genetically... | |
| 14. Food safety protesters cry over cloned milk and meat | January 31, 2008 |
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Once again there were protesters dressed as cows capering around for the cameras. The occasion was the publication of the European Food Safety Authority's (EFSA) opinion on... | |
| 15. GM crops pose a huge threat | November 8, 2007 |
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Stavros Dimas has finally got the courage to say what many people in the European Union think and whom he needs to protect: that the possible risks for the environment of... | |
| 16. Brussels's non-governmental order | August 30, 2007 |
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Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are a major feature of the Brussels networking environment and play an important role in the formation of policy at EU level. They see... | |
| 17. GM foods: the proof of the pudding | June 7, 2007 |
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In ‘More GM approvals, but national bans remain' (24-30 May), Emily Smith took rather a lop-sided view of the situation in Europe.Basing herself on the Eurobarometer and... | |
| 18. More GM approvals, but national bans remain | May 24, 2007 |
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Supporters of genetically modified (GM) agriculture might have been tempted to breathe a sigh of relief last year when the World Trade Organization (WTO) in September issued... | |
| 19. GM crops good for economy, says MEP | March 8, 2007 |
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MEPs next Tuesday (13 March) will vote on a report arguing the case for the development of genetically modified (GM) crops in Europe. The own-initiative report from Finnish... | |
| 20. EU walks a GM crop tightrope | December 14, 2006 |
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EU governments will next Monday (18 January) get a second chance to avoid World Trade Organization (WTO) action by lifting an Austrian ban on genetically modified (GM)... | |
