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TTIP Clause Claimed to Encourage Tax Evasion

17.02.2016 - A controversial clause in the proposed treaty for a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between Europe and the US that would allow multinational corporations to...

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Drugmakers Launch UK Dementia Fund

22.10.2015 - Six international drugmakers, led by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and including Johnson & Johnson, Biogen, Eli Lilly, Pfizer and Takeda, have joined forces with the UK Department of...

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UK Easing of EU Neonic Ban Riles Critics

08.10.2015 - As the preliminary end of the EU’s two-year moratorium on certain applications of neonicotinoid (neonic) pesticides nears, the UK’s decision in July to allow selective exceptions...

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Scotland Plans to Opt Out of GM Crops

11.08.2015 - Scotland has announced plans to ban the growing of genetically modified crops on its soil and also will request that the country be excluded from any European consents for the...

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Ineos Said Moving Corporate Functions Back to UK

17.07.2015 - Ineos is planning to move some of its corporate functions back to the UK from its current headquarters in Switzerland, according to unconfirmed press reports. In an interview with...

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UK’s Lancashire Denies Two Shale Gas Permits

03.07.2015 - Plans by the government of British prime minister David Cameron to launch an all-out shale gas offensive have been dealt another setback, one that could prove lengthy. In two...

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UK Parliament Rejects Calls to Restore Fracking Halt

28.01.2015 - A push by members of the parliamentary Environment Audit Committee (EAC) to reimpose a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in the UK has been defeated in the House of...

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EU Leaders Beat the Drum Harder for TTIP

19.12.2014 - In the face of only sluggish progress in finding support for the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment pact (TTIP) between the European Union and the United States, EU...