His institute had also received European Union money to carry out a voter-registration campaign.

ECONOMIST: Egypt

Jana Hybaskova, the European Union envoy to Iraq, described similar voter registration problems at polling sites in Baghdad's upscale Mansour district, a mixed Sunni-Shiite area.

NPR: Iraqis Go To Polls For First Time Since US Pullout

Replacing 40 different directives with one broad band of red tape should make chemical registration faster and less cumbersome, says Franco Bisegna of the European Chemical Industry Council, a lobby group.

ECONOMIST: Red tape in Europe