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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9633

2 April 2008
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS / A look behind the news, by ferdinando riccardi
Merciless war on counterfeiting has nothing to do with protectionism

Global scourge of organised crime and terrorism. On 10 March, Brussels hosted the first Global Anti-Counterfeit Summit. At the event, the Authentics Foundation organised an exhibition of bogus products and compared authentic products with those that had been counterfeited.

The star of the show was a Ferrari car confiscated in Thailand (some of the internal parts of which were made of compressed sawdust) but this was, above all, more curiosity than anything else; other discoveries were much...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS