Draft rules to ensure that harmful psychoactive substances, known as "legal highs", are withdrawn rapidly from the EU market were approved by Parliament on Thursday. MEPs sought to protect the health and safety of young people from these drugs, whilst ensuring that trade in lower risk substances for industrial and commercial use is not hindered.
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Cyprus will receive aid totalling 3.5 million euro from the European Aid to the Most Deprived for the period 2014-2020. Greece will receive 249.3 million Euro. The Fund supports Member State schemes providing food to the most deprived people and clothing and other essential goods to homeless people and materially-deprived children. The European Commission proposal
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While the market initially experienced a slow start to the week with holidays in much of Europe and other western markets, optimism is growing in the US as company earnings season kicks off and a series of data announcements this week are expected to show an improvement in the health of the US economy. New
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Cyprus' Pharmaceutical Services believe that it is quite unlikely for the fake cancer drug `Herceptin` to have entered the island`s market. However they urge everyone to be extra cautious and get in touch with the Services in case they detect something quite out of the ordinary. Vials of `Herceptin` probably stolen in Italy have been
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Cyprus goes to the polls on May 25 to elect six members of the European Parliament, with the elections being considered the most important European elections to date, as the EU seeks to pull through the economic crisis and EU leaders reflect on what direction to take in future. This is the third time Cyprus,
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The Cyprus Ministry of Finance announced it will issue new 6-year savings bonds for retail investors with a 4% coupon rate as of June, replacing previous 3-year and government savings bonds. The bonds will carry an initial rate of 2.75% for the first two years and rising to 5.75% upon maturity, for an average 4.125%
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Danny Brewster, CEO of the defunct Cyprus-based bitcoin promoter Neo & Bee, has broken his silence, taking to the social networking site reddit to respond to allegations that he defrauded investors and skipped the country, racking up about 1 mln euros in debts. Posting on the forum as ‘cryptocyprus’, the British-born entrepreneur said the suggestion
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. By Dr. Jim Leontiades Cyprus International Institute of Management Following the catastrophe of WWII, a group of European nations banded together to form an economic organisation founded on the hope that the integration of their means of production would end the possibility of future European wars. With time, this organisation once known as the
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. In an interview with former Cyprus ambassador Dr. Andrestinos Papadopoulos a.h., the Russian ambassador in Nicosia, Stanislav Osadchiy, discussed what impact the recent events in Crimea could have on Cyprus. Q: How does the deterioration in Russia’s relations with the EU and the US affect developments in our part of the world? The Eastern
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. By Oren Laurent President, Banc De Binary Last week, I speculated why tech stocks, despite a lack of fundamental causes, experienced a temporary decline. This week, the movement of the Aussie dollar provides further proof of the short-term power of investor sentiment over market trends. What is driving this sentiment? And what are the
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