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added: 14-06-2007

European Union agriculture ministers reached political agreement on a new regulation on organic production and labelling, which will be simpler for both farmers and consumers. The new rules set out a complete set of objectives, principles and basic rules for organic production, and include a new permanent import regime and a more consistent control regime.
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added: 13-06-2007

EU transport ministers, at a meeting chaired by the German Council President, Wolfgang Tiefensee, unanimously adopted the Council Conclusions on a "European Energy Strategy for Transport". They had discussed climate change, energy and transport for the first time at the March Council meeting, under the German Presidency, and laid the groundwork for this decision.

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added: 13-06-2007

The seasonally adjusted number of persons employed in the euro area (EA13) rose by 0.4% (533 000 persons) during the first quarter of 2007, according to provisional national accounts estimates published by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities.
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added: 13-06-2007

In the past three years Ukraine has undoubtedly become the most attractive outsourcing destination in Eastern Europe. With the second largest population after Russia, a legacy of Soviet science and success-hungry entrepreneurs, the country boasts the fastest- growing software development industry.

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added: 13-06-2007

Advertising spending for the first quarter of 2007 was down slightly at 0.6% over the same period last year, according to preliminary figures released by Nielsen Monitor-Plus, the leading provider of competitive advertising information, and a service of The Nielsen Company.
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added: 13-06-2007

Escalating fuel prices and the weakened housing market are coloring the opinion that C-suite CPAs have of the U.S. economy, according to the Spring 2007 Business and Industry Economic Outlook Survey conducted by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). Many of these executives also believe that energy availability and the significant number of sub-prime mortgage foreclosures could affect their own businesses.
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added: 13-06-2007

More and more small- and mid-cap companies are looking to exit the public markets and the trend is likely to persist, according to a recently released Piper Jaffray M&A report. The report titled, "Mergers and Acquisitions Insights: Going-Private and Public Take-Out Transactions," analyzes activity in the marketplace for large-, mid- and small-cap companies exiting the public markets.
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added: 13-06-2007

Consumers have been "unwitting recipients" to what is a growing number of publicly announced food-related issues of safety and health. Headlines of food recalls, from spinach to chicken to peanut butter to green onions to pet food, have unfortunately become more routine and anticipated. In fact, eight in ten adults (79%) are aware of the occurrence of food recalls in the United States.
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added: 13-06-2007

Natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and mechanical failures at pumping stations have highlighted the limited availability and unstable supply of fossil fuels. Europe's desire to be less dependent on oil imports has revived interest in alternative fuels. This need to be self sufficient has also induced encouraging legislation from individual EU member state governments for the biodiesel market.
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added: 13-06-2007

The European Commission presents a new publication on Europe’s position in research and innovation. The “Key figures 2007 on Science, Technology and Innovation” shows that R&D intensity (R&D expenditure as % of GDP) in Europe has stagnated since the mid-nineties, while major competitors such as Japan, China or South Korea have been able to increase substantially their R&D effort, shaping a world where knowledge is more evenly distributed than ever before.
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