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CEFIC Lends Support to “Ambitious” TTIP Timetable

07.09.2016 - CEFIC, the European Chemistry Council, is adding its voice to a coalition of EU-based businesses to support the controversial Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP)...

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Sweden Bans BPA From Drinking Water Pipes

01.09.2016 - In another unilateral move that will keep the country steps ahead of the EU on curbing the use of suspected endocrine disruptors, Sweden has announced it will ban epoxy linings...

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France Deals Another Blow to TTIP

01.09.2016 - The future of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, under negotiation for three years, is looking increasingly dimmer. After Germany’s vice chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel...

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German Minister Again Sounds TTIP’s Death Knell

30.08.2016 - In several interviews over the past few days, German economics minister and vice chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel, stirred up troubled waters on both sides of the Atlantic again with...

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EU Announces In-Depth Probe into Dow-DuPont

12.08.2016 - The European Commission has opened a full-scale investigation into the proposed $130 billion merger between US chemical giants Dow Chemical and DuPont, expressing concern that the...

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CEFIC Comments on EU Endocrine Disruptors Plan

09.08.2016 - Joining other stakeholders who initially commented on the draft legislation defining criteria for identifying endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in biocidal and plant protection...

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EU Clears Amgen’s Kyprolis Cancer Therapy

06.07.2016 - European regulators have approved the use of Amgen’s cancer drug Kyprolis in combination with just dexamethasone to treat certain adults with multiple myeloma, an incurable blood...

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Ratings Agencies Downgrade Post-Brexit UK

04.07.2016 - The world’s three leading ratings agencies have all moved to lower the long-term credit rating of the UK following the country’s Jun. 23 vote to leave the European Union. Moody’s...