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• Diversity breeds innovation, says Charles Leadbeater

Connect for profits

• A new plan to improve links between multinationals and women-owned businesses will increase diversity—and profits

Criminals found on Companies' register

• Research reveals criminals and disqualified directors on the Companies House register

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• Research reveals mental health problems could affect as many as one in six employees

 

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Red tape burns well

According to the European Commission, EU companies saved €500m (£370m) in 2007 thanks to its bureaucracy-busting measures

Make way for the Slovenians

In January, Slovenia took over the EU's rotating presidency. For the next six months a country of two million people will guide the fortunes of the EU, which represents a population of nearly half a billion

Does no really mean yes?

After the French said "non" to the EU Constitution in 2005, the same document in the guise of The Lisbon Treaty, is virtually a done deal

The Reform Treaty

It won't change things overnight but the Reform Treaty could have deep and long-term implications for UK business

European disinformation

Research reveals countries like France and Germany are actively discouraging their young from becoming entrepreneurs

Speeding up deregulation

When it comes to red tape, the European Commission certainly talks a good game, says Andrew Cave

The Portuguese presidency

The EU has been playing musical chairs and Portugal, which last held the presidency in 2000 when it gave us the Lisbon Agenda, is in the hot-seat again

Regulatory talk, but no action

The first statistical analysis of the EU's impact assessments to date makes grim reading

The fight for the consumer

All small business owners know that the customer is king. This view has not always been shared by big business, or by government

The EC's latest eco-drive

A new campaign aims to get businesses and individuals to change their habits out of choice rather than coercion

Time for the EC to prioritise

When EU heads of state meet in Brussels they have a habit of making sweeping statements and signing up to unrealistic goals

Prepare for contract friction

Proposals for a new consumer law could place e-commerce out of the reach of small businesses

An EU constitution is not dead

A new version of the constitution could be imminent, so it's worth looking at what the revised document could have in store

Labour law still in flux

Andrew Cave looks at the implications of the European Commission's long-awaited Green Paper on the Evolution of Labour Law

Beware of CSR red tape

Watch out for yet more regulation as the European Parliament discusses CSR
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