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Europe Weekly: Brussels feels the freeze In Europe Weekly this week we look back at the latest EU summit in Brussels to save the euro and efforts by the bloc’s leaders to impose stricter budget… 03/02/2012
EU deal hailed as first step towards fiscal union “It is the first step towards a fiscal union.” So says Mario Draghi, the head of the European Central Bank, hailing a deal on stricter budget discipline… 31/01/2012
UK and Czech Republic refuse to sign EU fiscal pact Chancellor Angela Merkel has finally got her way with most of Europe agreeing to a German-inspired pact for stricter budget discipline. Only Britain and the… 31/01/2012
Monti calls on EU to do more to boost growth European leaders must do more to boost growth, according to Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti. He said that once new budget rules are in place on fiscal… 12/01/2012
Jerzy Buzek and your questions on the European Parliament Alex Taylor, euronews: “Europe is in a big, big mess. We elected 736 members of the European parliament in 2009. What are they doing about it? Who better to… 18/10/2011
Poland’s EU presidency outlook “A Europe of solidarity and growth, a Europe open and secure.” This is how Poland presents its outlook for holding the European Union presidency: in high and… 06/07/2011
UK’s Cameron rejects EU bank budget plan The European Union’s latest plans to boost its future budget have raised the hackles of the moneymen in the City of London. The Commission wants to collect… 30/06/2011
EU workers’ unions: Commission’s proposal ‘quite unacceptable’The EU Commission has finally released the document on public servants regulation. Essentially it means a 5 percent reduction of staff between 2013 and… 30/06/2011
What gravy train? EU staff threaten to strikeRight after the daily briefing at the EU Commission I heard clapping hands and raised voices, something of a rarity in the customarily calm and cool-headed… 22/06/2011
EU budget plan ‘not funny’ – diplomatBrussels has urged EU members to keep the wind in their sails, calling for a six point two billion euro increase in the bloc’s common budget for next… 20/04/2011
MEPs reject call to travel economy classAt a time when European citizens are being asked to tighten their purse strings and accept pay freezes and cuts, their representatives in the European… 07/04/2011
Tougher rules agreed on EU debt and imbalances European Union finance ministers have agreed tougher rules against counties’ excessive borrowing and imbalances of their economies. As part of the revamped… 15/03/2011
Rehn reassures markets over debt concernsPatience will pay off – that is the message to investors from Europe’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner. Olli Rehn said Italy and Spain do not… 05/08/2011
Polish PM hits out against internal EU bordersNow is not the time to put up internal European barriers; in a crisis it is time for more integration and unity. That was the message from the Polish Prime… 06/07/2011
Brussels eyes EU sales taxThe European Commission on Wednesday called for an EU-wide sales tax to raise revenue for the 27-member bloc. Diplomats at the EU’s executive arm want to… 30/06/2011
Portugal bailout discussedEU finance ministers at a summit in Budapest are discussing Portugal’s request for a bail-out. The conditions for granting a rescue package are likely to… 08/04/2011
Pitfalls await busy EU summitEurope’s leaders start a two-day summit in the late afternoon of Thursday with a packed agenda and problems on nearly every horizon. Disrupting the planned… 24/03/2011
Cameron’s EU budget bid splits CouncilBritish Prime Minister David Cameron has confirmed he has won France and Germany’s support to cap the European Union’s budget. The EU’s next long-term… 17/12/2010
Parliament finally approves EU 2011 budgetThe European Parliament in Strasbourg has approved the EU’s draft budget for next year. The vote ended a long running row with the region’s governments… 15/12/2010
MEPs would accept lean budget to prevent paralysisTo keep funding European projects, determined to avert a budget crisis on top of a euro crisis, the European Parliament has offered a compromise for … 25/11/2010
No agreement on EU budget as talks collapseA disappointed president of the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek, has pointed the finger of blame at a few member states as talks over the bloc’s 2011 budget… 16/11/2010
EU at odds over its 2011 budgetMembers of the European Parliament have locked horns with EU governments over next year’s EU budget, which is drafted by the European Commission. At stake… 15/11/2010
A first for the Committee of the RegionsMercedes Bresso of Italy is now president of Europe’s Committee of the Regions. What are its goals and what does her election mean for Europe? 02/11/2010
Merkel’s tough line on euro stability convinces othersA compromise on running Europe: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has won agreement from the other European Union leaders to make limited changes to their… 29/10/2010
Cameron over budget: “Brussels won’t derail us”Two point nine percent and not a drop more: That is as much as British Prime Minister David Cameron, wants to let the European Parliament increase the … 29/10/2010
Cameron hauls back over EU spendingBritish Prime Minister David Cameron has been leading efforts to stop the European Parliament from increasing the EU budget by almost 6% in 2011. The UK and… 29/10/2010
Call to raise EU spending sits badly with someAs Britain takes the axe to its budget, from Strasbourg comes a call to increase EU spending. Discounting protests by governments putting austerity first… 20/10/2010
EU finance ministers debate budget reformThe battle lines over budget reform are hardening as euro zone finance ministers meet in Luxembourg to try to complete an overhaul of EU budget… 18/10/2010
Closer budget coordination for the EUAs part of the growth and stability pact, the “European Semester” constitutes a new surveillance tool to reinforce budgetary coordination among the European… 20/09/2010
EU ministers grapple with new debt rulesEurope’s finance ministers have been meeting to thrash out the details of the EU budget rules reforms. Dubbed the Task Force, they are finalising penalties… 06/09/2010
EU states rally as Portugal fights forest firesTwo Italian water bomber planes are to be loaned to Portugal as the authorities battle a number of forest fires, mainly in the north of the country. The… 28/07/2010
Ecofin discusses budget rules and stress testsA pivotal meeting of European Union finance ministers started on Monday in Brussels, negotiating stricter budget discipline rules for EU governments so that… 12/07/2010
Sanctions for budget laxity back on EU tableAttack budget rule-breakers where it hurts the most: their wallets. Under proposals by the European Commission, European Union governments would lose EU aid… 30/06/2010
Greece warned to speed up debt reduction measuresGreece has 30 days to come up with more deficit-control measures if needed. Finance ministers from the euro zone countries meeting in Brussels have urged… 16/02/2010
EU ministers meet again over Greek crisisGreek premier George Papandreou wants the European Union to do more to support his cash- strapped country. As, once again, eurozone states meet today to… 15/02/2010
EU offers Greece solidarity but no concrete aidDebt-laden Greece did not ask for financial aid from its European partners. And, in its hour of need, the crisis-hit country did not get any. Instead, … 12/02/2010
Worst contraction of Spanish economy for decadesThere is more bad news for the Spanish government, already reeling from stock market falls. Latest figures show the economy contracted by 3.6 percent last… 05/02/2010
Spain and Portugal under pressure amid crisis fearsIt is not yet a Greek tragedy. But shares in Spain and Portugal have taken a tumble amid growing anxiety over the heavily indebted countries’ financial… 05/02/2010
EU backs Greece’s fiscal austerity measuresGreece’s plan to cut its huge deficit have been cautiously welcomed by the EU. The proposals include cutting public worker salaries, raising the retirement… 01/02/2010
Galileo services foreseen in 2014The EU’s new space-based navigation system Galileo will begin operating in 2014. The European Commission has also said the project intended to rival the … 07/01/2010
Germany deficit may not exceed EU limitReports from Germany say the country may be able to keep its deficit down to within EU sanctioned limits this year. Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has… 04/12/2009
Auditors’ Court approves EU accounts, with a sting in the tailRural Europe, tax police patrol farm buildings built fraudulently with EU subsidies… sound familiar? It is to the European Court of Auditors. And yet, for the… 10/11/2009
