This Sunday, on the same day as the European Parliament elections, Belgium will hold a general election, electing both new federal and regional assemblies to govern 11 million people. The key question is how strong the Flemish nationalist N-VA, which i…
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belgium, catalonia, EP2014, european elections, Herman Van Rompuy, N-VA |
February 18, 2013
This afternoon EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy appeared in front of MEPs to give his account of the deal struck by national leaders on the EU’s next long-term budget. MEPs, many of whom have strongly resisted any budgetary discipline at the EU l…
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2014-2020 MFF, EU budget, european parliament, guy verhofstadt, Herman Van Rompuy, MEPs |
February 8, 2013
EU leaders look to be closing in on a deal on the 2014-2020 budget (MFF). We will be updating this blog throughout the day.UPDATE – 10:58am: Talks set to resume at 12pm GMT. Van Rompuy will table another compromise proposal. It seems Romania, Bulgaria,…
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February 7, 2013
The rumours are flying in thick and fast from Brussels regarding the latest EU budget numbers and the likelihood of a deal. The range estimates we laid out in our briefing still stand up, with several suggestions that Herman Van Rompuy’s latest pr…
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January 31, 2013
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 |
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 |
November 23, 2012
We’ve got our hands on a leaked copy of the latest HermanVan Rompuy (HvR) proposal for the EU budget (see here for the full doc). The headline spending figure remains broadly unchanged in the new proposal, standing at €1,014bn (a €4bn increase), …
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2014-2020 MFF, budget, CAP, commission, EU budget, EU budget rules, EU summit, Herman Van Rompuy, UK rebate, UK; |
November 21, 2012
Here’s an update of Open Europe’s ‘veto count’: ten EU member states (UK, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, France, Portugal, Latvia, The Netherlands, Austria and Romania) have now explicitly threatened to veto the 2014-2020 EU budget. Several other countries a…
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2014-2020 MFF, EU budget, EU summit, France, Herman Van Rompuy, italy, Portugal, Spain |
October 18, 2012
An EU leader saying that he or she is in favour of “more Europe” in response to the Eurozone crisis means absolutely nothing. Ask Germans whether they’re in favour of more Europe, meaning codification of Bundesbank-style fiscal discipline at the …
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angela merkel, fiscal discipline, fiscal union, germany, Herman Van Rompuy, Hollande, ordnungspolitik |
September 6, 2012
This morning, Handelsblatt is reporting that EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy, Commission President José Manuel Barroso, Eurogroup chief Jean-Claude Juncker, and ECB President Mario Draghi’s plans to redesign the architecture of the economi…
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barroso, britain in europe, Draghi, eu membership, eurozone, Herman Van Rompuy, juncker, treaty change |
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