Will Cameron’s new body cut through EU red tape?David Cameron has just announced that he’ll set up a new “task force” consisting of some of the UK’s best business leaders. Their task is to identify EU rules and regulations that are cu…
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On Wednesday, European Parliament President Martin Schulz wrote to Irish Deputy Prime Minister Eamon Gilmore warning him that the latest compromise on the long term EU budget agreed by EU leaders in February would be rejected. Yesterday morning…
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2014-2020 EU budget, Cameron, EU budget, eu tax, Martin Schulz, MEPs, QMV, rebate |
June 27, 2013
There’s been a lot happening on the EU budget front in the last couple of days – the 2014 draft budget was proposed yesterday and this morning a deal was finally struck between the European Parliament’s negotiating team and the Irish Presidency …
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2014-2020 MFF, Cameron, CAP, EU budget, Hollande, rural development, UK rebate |
The plot is thickening. On Tuesday Open Europe posted on its blog and YouTube account a video of GeenStijl reporter @TomStaal being pushed about and slapped by MEPs after he confronts them for allegedly ‘signing on and sodding off,’ or for collec…
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european parliament, Geenstijl, Raffaele Baldassarre, Silvio Berlusconi, SISO, Tom Staal |
As we reported last month, the outflow of Cypriot deposits has continued apace despite the continuation of capital controls (even once the impact of the bank restructuring is stripped out the outflows have totalled around €3bn for each of the last tw…
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bailout, bank of cyprus, Cyprus, depositors, deposits, eurozone |
Will EU policies switch off the lights?When 100 years ago a British Foreign Secretary observed that:”The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time” he was referring to a particularly bad phase in Europe…
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Despite some sizeable differences, EU finance ministers finally managed to reach an agreement on the bank bail-in plans last night (after only 25 hours of talks in the past few days). As always with this type of EU deals, it is a compromise and often a…
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bail-in, banking regulation, banking sector, banking supervision, banking union, brrd, ecofin, eurozone. bail-out, recovery, resolution |
June 26, 2013
If you thought the wave of French attacks on European Commission President José Manuel Barroso was ebbing away, you were wrong. Today, it was the turn of French Socialist MP Claude Bartolone – who’s also the President of the National Assembly, the low…
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barroso, Delors, European Commission, France, Hollande, Le Monde, Quatremer |
While all eyes will be on George Osborne and Ed Balls this afternoon, the EU Commission has slipped out its draft annual budget for 2014. This is important as it the first budget to be drawn up using the reduced expenditure limits (or ‘ceilings’ in EU-…
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2014-2020 EU budget, CAP, EEAS, EESC, EU admin spending, EU agencies, EU budget, EU structural funds, european parliament, MEPs, SISO |
June 25, 2013
Italian MEP Renato Baldassarre has responded to the posting of the video in which he’s seen pushing and slapping a Dutch journalist (or at least the journalist’s microphone) after being caught on camera allegedly signing in for a day’s work, and then s…
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2014-2020 EU budget, allowances, european parliament, MEPs, MFF, perks, Renato Baldassarre, SISO |
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