December 6, 2013
Back in September, we wrote on this blog that the EU’s Financial Transaction Tax was “dying a death of a thousand cuts”.However, following that opinion of the EU Council of Ministers’ legal service, the European Commission has hit back with its o…
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council of ministers, eu, European Commission, financial transaction tax, FTT, legal opinions, unicorns |
November 12, 2013
Following a reported 16 hour marathon negotiation, representatives from member states, the European Commission and the European Parliament struck a deal on the 2014 annual budget in the early hours of this morning.As the sides failed to agree…
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2014-2020 EU budget, council of ministers, david cameron, EU budget, EU reform, european parliament |
MEPs yesterday voted on a new safety regime for offshore oil and gas platforms. And what do you know, it appears that the UK has managed to come up with an acceptable solution. Fears that the Commission’s original plan to push its plans via a regu…
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commission, council of ministers, european parliament, gas, oil, scotland |
December 6, 2012
Or was it the Van Rompuy report…looking at the report on moving “Towards a genuine economic and monetary union” released earlier today its hard to judge how closely involved the other Presidents were, notably ECB President Mario Draghi and Commission…
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banking supervision, council of ministers, Draghi, ECB, emu, Herman Van Rompuy, single supervisor |
February 15, 2011
EU ministers and MEPs have done something very sensible: agreed on an EU-wide patent.According to the Commission, obtaining a patent protection for all member states in the EU is currently around 15 times more expensive than obtaining patent protectio…
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council of ministers, italy, MEPs, patent, Spain, two-speed europe |
January 12, 2010
As the European Parliament ‘confirmation’ hearings for incoming EU Commissioners rumble on in the background, we thought we might take a look at Cathy Ashton’s hearing yesterday. It received a fair amount of press coverage (see here, here, here and her…
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catherine ashton, council of ministers, eu foreign minister, EU foreign policy, European Commission |
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