EUbusiness Week 546 top stories: Serbia gets foot in EU door but warned on Kosovo; Slovakia ratifies eurozone rescue fund; EU moves to ‘green’ its farms in radical reform bid; EU launches controversial world aid reform; Chiquita, Pacific Fruit face banana cartel allegation; EU greenhouse gas emissions +2.4 pct in 2010: estimates
This Week’s Top Stories
1. Serbia gets foot in EU door but warned on Kosovo
2. Slovakia ratifies eurozone rescue fund
3. EU moves to ‘green’ its farms in radical reform bid
4. EU launches controversial world aid reform
5. Chiquita, Pacific Fruit face banana cartel allegation
6. EU greenhouse gas emissions +2.4 pct in 2010: estimates
Publisher’s Note
Patients increasingly want to know more about the medicines they take, and to have more of a say in how they are treated. But reliable information, especially on the Internet, is not easy to come by. The Commission this week adopted proposals to clarify the information that industry can supply to the public on prescription-only medicines.
The revised proposals maintain a current advertising ban on prescription-only medicines. They also set quality criteria for the information, and limit the type of information allowed, as well as in which media it may be displayed.
The new proposals “put rights, interests and safety of patients first”, says the Commission. Whether patients will be keen to have information limited to ‘officially registered internet websites’ remains to be seen.
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1. Serbia gets foot in EU door but warned on Kosovo
Serbia took a first key step in the long road to European Union membership Wednesday but was warned it must patch up its fraught relations with Kosovo before advancing further.
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Turkey’s EU membership bid in limbo amid Cyprus row
Montenegro takes new step towards EU membership
3. Slovakia ratifies eurozone rescue fund
Slovakia on Thursday became the final eurozone member to approve the crucial rescue fund for debt-laden members of the currency bloc, after a struggle that brought down its centre-right government.
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3. EU moves to ‘green’ its farms in radical reform bid
The EU has called for a greener, fairer farm policy as it moves to radically overhaul its Common Agricultural Policy by capping subsidies and tying them to environmental concerns.
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4. EU launches controversial world aid reform
The world’s biggest donor, the European Union, is looking to slash aid for emerging powers like China, India and South Africa in order to focus on the world’s poorest nations.
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5. Chiquita, Pacific Fruit face banana cartel allegation
The Commission accused Pacific Fruit and Chiquita of illegally fixing the prices of bananas they sold in southern Europe and fined Pacific Fruit 8.9 million euros.
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6. EU greenhouse gas emissions +2.4 pct in 2010: estimates
The EU’s greenhouse-gas emissions rose 2.4 per cent in 2010 over 2009 following the financial crisis, but the bloc remains on track for meeting Kyoto Protocol targets.
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Tymoshenko: the Ukrainian Security Service has launched a new probe against ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko over suspected embezzlement when she headed an energy firm in the 1990s.
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Top Romanian judges accused of influence peddling for jewels
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Syria: the EU held out a hand to Syria’s opposition grouping Monday, welcoming its formation and urging the world to do the same, as it readies new sanctions against Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
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EU delays debt crisis summit to October 23
Macedonia urges Greece to settle name row
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Commission Watch
Banks: the Commission pressed banks to urgently beef up their coffers against the crisis as it raced to revamp the eurozone debt rescue fund after winning a reprieve from Slovakia.
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Barroso wants eurozone vote reform
Bulgaria’s Schengen accession ‘matter of fairness’: Barroso
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Euro-Parliament Watch
In plenary this week, Parliament approved new rules to control exports of civilian-use firearms such as sports and hunting weapons; called for an EU roadmap to exit the economic crisis, advocating recapitalising European banks, further harmonising national tax systems, issuing Eurobonds and strengthening EU economic governance arrangements for the Eurozone; and in a debate on the future EU Value Added Tax system, they urged a crackdown on fraud, exemptions for NGOs and small firms, and reduced rates for ‘green’ products.
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23 Oct, European Summit
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