May 31, 2013
An unstoppable march? Maybe. The consistent monthly practice of smashing unemployment records in the eurozone continued in April with the overall total reaching 12.2% while youth unemployment hit a whopping 24.4%.As the graph highlights (click to enlar…
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economic growth, eurozone, eurozone crisis, Greece, Spain, unemployment |
William Hague backs giving national parliaments a new ‘red card’ to replace the current yellow cardWilliam Hague will today further develop plans for a new ‘red card’ system for national parliaments to block unwelcome laws from Brussels, a mo…
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britain in europe, germany, hague, national parliaments, red card, yellow card |
May 30, 2013
Update 31/05/13 09:40: As we noted below, it seems that the figures do include some of the write-downs of deposits under the bank restructuring (but not all). Apologies for the confusion. As the Central Bank of Cyprus notes the initial write down for B…
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bailout, banking sector, Cyprus, depositors, deposits, ECB, economic growth, ELA, eurozone crisis |
The Commission has now published its press release explaining its reasoning for taking the UK to court over its ‘right to reside’ test for EU migrants. This is the key passage: “The ‘right to reside’ test is an additional condition for entitl…
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benefits, britain in europe, commission, ECJ, EU free movement, free movement |
Building on our blog from yesterday, Open Europe’s Raoul Ruparel has an article in City AM today discussing the Commission’s country specific recommendations. Raoul argues that, despite protestations to the contrary, this is far from a wholesale ch…
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anti-austerity, austerity, economic growth, European Commission, eurozone, eurozone crisis, eurozone exit, fiscal union |
Our Research Director Stephen Booth was on BBC Radio 4’s Today Pragramme this morning discussing the news that the European Commission is today expected to take the UK Government to court over the so-called ‘right to reside’ test that is…
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benefits, britain in europe, EU free movement, free movement |
Our Research Director Stephen Booth was on BBC Radio 4’s Today Pragramme this morning discussing the news that the European Commission is today expected to take the UK Government to court over the so-called ‘right to reside’ test that is…
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benefits, britain in europe, EU free movement, free movement |
Our Research Director Stephen Booth was on BBC Radio 4’s Today Pragramme this morning discussing the news that the European Commission is today expected to take the UK Government to court over the so-called ‘right to reside’ test that is…
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benefits, britain in europe, EU free movement, free movement |
Well, we know that French economic and budgetary souveraineté runs incredibly deep. So that French President François Hollande didn’t react with enthusiam to the European Commission’s new economic policy recommendations to France shouldn’t come as a …
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economic government, European Commission, eurozone, France, Hollande |
The Commission has today released its country-specific recommendations on economic policy. Below, we highlight the most important suggestions made to some of the key eurozone countries.SPAINAccording to the European Commission, Spain should “improve …
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country specific recommendations, economic data, economic growth, European Commission, France, germany, italy, labour market reform, slovenia, Spain |
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