Ken Clarke, as he is prone to doing, has let slip a morsel of information regarding the Government’s thinking on how to approach the 2014 EU crime and policing block opt-out, which, according to Theresa May last year, the Government is ‘minded’ t…
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Spain’s largest daily El País this morning splashed this and other pictures on its webpage (click to enlarge):The paper claims it has seen hand-written accounting books held by Álvaro Lapuerta and Luis Bárcenas, who served as treasurers of Spanish P…
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2014-2020 MFF, Barcenas, EU budget, European Council, Merkel, MFF, Rajoy, Spain |
Remember our EU budget ‘veto team’? Well, the next European Council summit – entirely devoted to negotiations over the 2014-2020 EU budget – is only one week away, and the sequence of veto threats may have just begun all over again.Guess who fired the …
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2014-2020 MFF, European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, monti, veto |
January 30, 2013
The FT reported today on the latest draft proposals for the EU financial transactions tax (FTT), which is proceeding under enhanced cooperation with 11 countries taking part. These are the highlights from the FT’s report (since we are yet to get our ha…
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financial markets, financial regulation, Financial Services, financial transaction tax, FTT, UK-EU relations |
January 29, 2013
Last week, we noted how the German media’s reaction to David Cameron’s Europe speech had been cautious, but receptive. Unsurprisingly, the French press has been much less receptive to the British Prime Minister’s call for a reformed EU. In today’s Les …
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Cameron, Cameron's EU speech, EU referendum, France, Les Echos, reaction, UK-EU relations |
It’s always interesting to watch rhetoric and negotiation posturing clash with reality. Following David Cameron’s EU speech last week, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, a French government spokeswoman, insisted that:”Being a member of the European Union has a nu…
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britain in europe, Cameron's EU speech, France, Mali, solidarity |
A lot has been written over the past few weeks regarding the easing of the Basel III banking rules, which we’ve been meaning to cover but didn’t get round to doing. The specifics and details have been well covered so instead we’ll look at some of motiv…
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banking regulation, banking sector, banking supervision, banking union, Basel III, ECB, eurozone crisis, finance, financial regulation, single supervisor |
January 25, 2013
This morning saw the start of the on-going process of repayments of the loans given by the ECB to European banks under the Long Term Refinancing Operation (LTRO) (see here for details). The ECB announced that 278 banks have already pledged to repay
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bank capital, banking sector, banking union, ECB, ECB balance sheet, ECB Governing Council, euro, eurozone, finance, financial markets, forex, LTRO |
The Director of Open Europe Berlin, Prof. Dr. Michael Wohlgemuth, has dug up this old quote, which has a great deal of relevance for where we’re at today. It’s taken from the third Jean Monnet Lecture delivered in Florence by Ralf Dah…
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britain in europe, commission, community method, EU reform, germany, one-size-fits-all, open europe berlin |
January 24, 2013
Yesterday we brought you some instant reaction to Cameron’s speech from European media and politicians. In this blog post, we round up reaction from the German press after they’ve had a day to digest it – a crucial barometer of how much, if any, purcha…
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britain in europe, Cameron, Cameron's EU speech, german media, germany |
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