With unemployment at 11 percent and stringent economic policies demanded by the European Union to solve its debt problems, Hungary’s far right parties are saying the country is “colonized” by the EU and that it should give up its membership in the organization it joined in 2004, according to Gyorgy Szapary, Hungary’s ambassador to the […]
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U.S. Agencies Adamant About Foreign Corrupt Practices
The U.S. Justice Department collected more than $1 billion in criminal penalties last year in cases related to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. This is the highest amount ever collected in connection with the enforcement of this act over a 12-month period. The U.S. Congress also has passed new legislation increasing penalties and encouraging individuals […]
UGA Co-sponsors Nuclear Security Workshop in Austria
Two University of Georgia academic centers will join with a Russian institute to hold a workshop on nuclear security in Vienna, Austria, Jan. 28-29. More than 80 international experts in nuclear law, antiterrorism and nuclear security will participate in the workshop sponsored by UGA’s Center for International Trade and Security and Dean Rusk Center and […]
Gun Maker Glock Files Trademark Suit Against Austrian Company
Glock Inc., an Austrian gun maker which has its U.S. headquarters in suburban Atlanta, claims in a federal lawsuit that another Austrian company illegally copied its trademarked design and is importing a .22 caliber pistol that is a Glock “clone.” Glock sued both ISSC Handels GMBH, the maker of the M-22 pistol, and the company […]
Delta Begins Partnership With Australian Carrier
Delta Air Lines Inc. and Australian carrier Virgin Blue Airlines Group have started selling tickets on some of the other airline's flights, an arrangement known as codesharing. Six routes are available for codeshare booking for connecting flights. Passengers on Virgin Blue’s long-haul carrier, V Australia, can book tickets for travel beginning Jan. 18 on four […]
Austrian Company Lands VW Plant Contract
As Volkswagen Group of America begins installing equipment at its new factory in Chattanooga, Tenn., near the Georgia state line, an Austrian company has landed a $900,000 contract for the first phase of electrical wiring for the conveyor systems in the plant’s body shops. In an e-mail interview with GlobalAtlanta, Michael Kolb, chief executive officer […]
