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29 May 20
The European Commission has proposed a €750bn recovery fund to help drag EU economies out of the slump caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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29 May 20
Ireland is in a position to avoid implementing post-coronavirus austerity measures to the scale it imposed after the global financial crisis, the country’s fiscal watchdog has said.
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20 May 20
France and Germany have proposed that a €500bn EU recovery fund be distributed to the member nations worst affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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4 May 20
The EU is sending billions of euros to the Western Balkans to help the region through the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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1 May 20
EU countries are losing around €24.5bn in corporation tax each year from US businesses shifting their profits to low-tax countries such as the UK and Switzerland, analysis by the Tax Justice Network...
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1 May 20
The UK government’s efforts to foster gender equality through international aid are being hampered by “inaccuracy”, a watchdog has found.
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28 Apr 20
The Russian government has been urged to spend half of its National Wealth Fund of saved oil and gas revenues to deal with the Covid-19 crisis.
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28 Apr 20
Emmanuel Macron’s “expensive” response to the ‘yellow vest’ movement is partly to blame for France’s public deficit rising in 2019, the country’s court of auditors has found.
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21 Apr 20
IMF support is “like blood for the human body” during the coronavirus pandemic, the president of Ukraine has said as his country prepares to deal with the economic fallout of the crisis.
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20 Apr 20
European economies will need at least €500bn from EU institutions to tackle the Covid-19 financial crisis, the head of the EU’s bailout body has said.
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6 Apr 20
CIPFA member Peter Welch has been appointed chair of an Accountancy Europe expert group that pushes for sustainability and transparency for the continent’s public finances.
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2 Apr 20
The coronavirus crisis has shown the EU’s fiscal rules to be in immediate need of reform, senior economists at Finland’s national audit office have claimed.
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27 Mar 20
The European Central Bank has waived the current limit on the amount of a government’s bonds it can buy in response to the Covid-19 outbreak.
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24 Mar 20
Germany has announced €156bn of new spending to fight the economic effects of the coronavirus.
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19 Mar 20
An emergency €750bn package has been launched by the European Central Bank as it tries to soften the blow of the coronavirus pandemic in the eurozone.
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18 Mar 20
The economic impact of the escalating coronavirus pandemic is “much worse than feared”, and the world economy is probably already in a recession, according to ratings agency Standard & Poor’s...
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17 Mar 20
France is mobilising €45bn to help keep its economy afloat, the finance minister announced, after president Emmanuel Macron declared the country was “at war” with the coronavirus.
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17 Mar 20
A €1bn package of support for economies hit by the coronavirus pandemic has been unveiled by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
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13 Mar 20
The European Central Bank has deployed stimulus measures in an attempt to soften the economic blow of the coronavirus pandemic.
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12 Mar 20
The UK government risks retaliation from the US after confirming it will go ahead with its planned tax on internet giants such as Facebook and Google from April.
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3 Mar 20
Irish public finances face the threat of lower corporation tax receipts, as the OECD process to reform the global tax system approaches a “crucial” phase.
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2 Mar 20
A party vowing to stamp out corruption has been given a big win in the Slovakian parliamentary elections on Saturday by an electorate angry at graft.
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28 Feb 20
European finance ministers are considering intervention in their economies to counter the impact of coronavirus outbreaks.
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27 Feb 20
The UK government’s international departments are set for a shake-up, after prime minister Boris Johnson launched a review into how the country can face its “global opportunities and challenges”...
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26 Feb 20
French president Emmanuel Macron’s deficit reduction plans have faltered due to deviations from his planned programme of cuts, according to the country’s national audit office.
29 May 20The European Commission has proposed a €750bn recovery fund to help drag EU economies out of the slump caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
29 May 20Ireland is in a position to avoid implementing post-coronavirus austerity measures to the scale it imposed after the global financial crisis, the country’s fiscal watchdog has said.
20 May 20France and Germany have proposed that a €500bn EU recovery fund be distributed to the member nations worst affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
4 May 20The EU is sending billions of euros to the Western Balkans to help the region through the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic.
1 May 20EU countries are losing around €24.5bn in corporation tax each year from US businesses shifting their profits to low-tax countries such as the UK and Switzerland, analysis by the Tax Justice Network...
1 May 20The UK government’s efforts to foster gender equality through international aid are being hampered by “inaccuracy”, a watchdog has found.
28 Apr 20The Russian government has been urged to spend half of its National Wealth Fund of saved oil and gas revenues to deal with the Covid-19 crisis.
28 Apr 20Emmanuel Macron’s “expensive” response to the ‘yellow vest’ movement is partly to blame for France’s public deficit rising in 2019, the country’s court of auditors has found.
21 Apr 20IMF support is “like blood for the human body” during the coronavirus pandemic, the president of Ukraine has said as his country prepares to deal with the economic fallout of the crisis.
6 Apr 20CIPFA member Peter Welch has been appointed chair of an Accountancy Europe expert group that pushes for sustainability and transparency for the continent’s public finances.
27 Mar 20The European Central Bank has waived the current limit on the amount of a government’s bonds it can buy in response to the Covid-19 outbreak.
24 Mar 20Germany has announced €156bn of new spending to fight the economic effects of the coronavirus.
19 Mar 20An emergency €750bn package has been launched by the European Central Bank as it tries to soften the blow of the coronavirus pandemic in the eurozone.
18 Mar 20The economic impact of the escalating coronavirus pandemic is “much worse than feared”, and the world economy is probably already in a recession, according to ratings agency Standard & Poor’s...
17 Mar 20A €1bn package of support for economies hit by the coronavirus pandemic has been unveiled by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
13 Mar 20The European Central Bank has deployed stimulus measures in an attempt to soften the economic blow of the coronavirus pandemic.
12 Mar 20The UK government risks retaliation from the US after confirming it will go ahead with its planned tax on internet giants such as Facebook and Google from April.
3 Mar 20Irish public finances face the threat of lower corporation tax receipts, as the OECD process to reform the global tax system approaches a “crucial” phase.
2 Mar 20A party vowing to stamp out corruption has been given a big win in the Slovakian parliamentary elections on Saturday by an electorate angry at graft.
28 Feb 20European finance ministers are considering intervention in their economies to counter the impact of coronavirus outbreaks.
