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20 Apr 18
The African Development Bank has launched an integrated strategy for economic progress in the continent’s Portuguese-speaking countries.
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16 Apr 18
European Union investments in business have not led to durable and long-lasting success in around a fifth of cases, auditors have found.
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6 Apr 18
The European Union has announced €150m to support of Lebanon’s economy, which it hopes will generate €1.5bn in loans for the country until 2020.
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6 Apr 18
The EU budget should be more sustainable so it can better address long-term challenges, such as climate change, a European climate network has said.
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5 Apr 18
French rail workers have walked out over president Emmanuel Macron’s plans to loosen labour rules in the public sector, including an overhaul of the state-run rail network.
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5 Apr 18
Italy’s statistics bureau ISTAT has increased its assessment of the country’s 2017 budget deficit to 2.3% of gross domestic product.
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5 Apr 18
The Institute for Global Justice in The Hague, which is partly funded by the Dutch taxpayer, has closed down as a result of lack of funding.
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29 Mar 18
France has reduced its deficit to below the 3% European Union limit for the first time in a decade, it has been announced.
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27 Mar 18
The eurozone should create a ‘rainy-day’ fund to help members of the currency union in future economic downturns, the International Monetary Fund chief has said.
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27 Mar 18
The European Union has unveiled its strategy to reform the financial system in support of a “greener and cleaner” economy.
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23 Mar 18
A number of public sector workers went on strike across France yesterday over the government’s plans to reform labour laws.
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22 Mar 18
The UK could be punished by the European Union if it tries to lower corporate tax to attract business after leaving the bloc, tax campaigner Dame Margaret Hodge has told PF International.
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21 Mar 18
Future farm spending in the EU should be based on performance targets and achieve the union’s definition of ‘added value’, European auditors have said.
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21 Mar 18
The European Union has proposed new rules to make companies pay their fair share of tax in the digital age.
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20 Mar 18
EU public private partnerships are not economically viable and only have limited benefits, resulting in billions of euros being inefficiently spent, European auditors have said.
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19 Mar 18
The French and German leaders have met to start work on a new ‘roadmap’ for major reform of the eurozone, which is likely to include changes from budgetary issues to trade.
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19 Mar 18
Germany’s new finance minister has said protectionism is “not the answer” to trade and warned he is “seriously worried” about the trade stand-offs with the US.
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15 Mar 18
The French central bank has revised up its 2018 economic growth forecast to 1.9%, following the strongest growth in six years.
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15 Mar 18
Germany’s gender pay gap remains unchanged, with women earning 21% less than men last year, the Federal Statistics Office has said.
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15 Mar 18
Accountants who help companies dodge tax by shifting profits to low-tax countries could risk fines, under new European proposals to tackle avoidance and improve transparency.
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14 Mar 18
European Union funding to help Turkey prepare itself for EU membership has had only a “limited effect”, auditors have found.
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13 Mar 18
The eurozone is expected to pay out the next €5.7bn bailout loan tranche to Greece in the second half of March, the president of the Eurogroup has announced.
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13 Mar 18
The French president has reversed a decade of defence budget cuts by approving nearly €300bn in military spending by 2025, as he pushes for military service to be compulsory.
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7 Mar 18
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has agreed a five-year strategy to guide its investment and policy work in Serbia.
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6 Mar 18
The European Commission has pledged to give €24m in humanitarian assistance to help those affected by the conflicts in eastern Ukraine.