Small businesses in the North East will be exempt from complex EU accounting rule following a vote in the European Parliament this week. Qualifying businesses must now only comply with national reporting rules which usually demand very basic information.
1. Greece's two mainstream political parties agreed on a pact for a unity government after intense pressure from the EU, which warned the country would be left to go bankrupt if a cross-part consensus was not achieved. 2. Germany has rejected demands by France, Britain and the US to allow national gold reserves to be put as collateral for the eurozone bailout fund. 3. A two-day meeting in the south of France of the world's most powerful leaders drew to a close with few concrete agreements, leaving EU leaders no wiser on how to control their single currency crisis. 4. Italy agreed to be put under surveillance by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as part of a plan to restore market trust in the eurozone's third-largest economy. 5. Greek PM George Papandreou stepped down, and was replaced by a former vice-president of the ECB. A referendum on the new bail-out deal for Greece has been shelved. 6. A former EU commissioner Mario Monti (a senator for life) was installed as prime minister of Italy after right-win
The borough council's "Plan E" published in April 2011 identifies land in Upper High Street, Depot Road and Church Street as suitable for development. Plan E envisaged the site being developed for a range of uses, including a foodstore and housing, as well as car parking.
Disabled parking bays in Epsom's Town Hall car park are to stay, after RA councillors performed a U-turn on previously supporting a Lib Dem move to return 6 of the 20 bays for general use.
Juice manufacturers will have to stick to stricter rules on the composition of fruit juices and ensure they stick to stricter labelling guidelines. Chelmsford's Lib Dem Euro MP Andrew Duff and colleagues voted yesterday for the "Fruit Juice directive" to improve the quality of drinks available across the European Union. It will make sure you know exactly which juices contain extra sugar or sweeteners.
The Conservative administration has created two extra panels on Brentwood council - with additional chair & vice-chair expenses totalling £12,448 of tax payers' money alone annually - plus additional costs of running a committee, such as staff overtime, which have not been released.