TAG: Packaging

Big Chocolate is conning you this Easter

BRUSSELS — The Royal Gallery of Saint-Hubert in the Brussels Old Town is a noisy place. Fashionistas maul the haute couture; families chomp on waffles under its 19th century arches. But it’s the smell that guides you to the money. Aromatic, caramelly, roa...

6 months ago

The EU’s controversial business supply chain oversight rules live on — at a cost

A landmark piece of Brussels’ ambition to put a greener and more human face on international business cleared a major hurdle on Friday — but not without taking major hits along the road. Overcoming weeks of pushback from national capitals, European Union...

6 months ago

Italy can do without Russian gas, says energy minister

ROME — Italy has emancipated itself from Russian natural gas and would have no problem with a proposed package of EU sanctions on liquified natural gas (LNG) that the European Commission is considering, Italian Energy Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin sai...

5 months ago

Don’t bring a plastic bottle to the Olympics — unless you’re Coca-Cola

The French would call it deux poids, deux mesures — literally, “two weights, two scales” — or a double standard, for us anglophones. At the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games, you won’t be able to bring in plastic bottles. But Coca-Cola, which has exclusi...

2 months ago