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23 Sep 16
The European Commission is to publish a draft law setting out EU-wide rules on how companies calculate their tax dues, according to the bloc’s most senior tax official.
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21 Sep 16
Almost $130m worth of UK aid money is to be spent on returning refugees to war-torn countries like Somalia and ensuring they do not travel on to Europe.
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21 Sep 16
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has raised €350m ($391m) in the first round of fundraising for its debut Equity Participation Fund.
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20 Sep 16
The cost of decommissioning Soviet-era nuclear power plants in Lithuania, Bulgaria and Slovakia could balloon to €11.4bn ($12.7bn), the European Court of Auditors has warned.
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20 Sep 16
The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation into Luxembourg’s tax treatment of the GDF Suez group, over concerns it may have given the company an unfair advantage and breached EU...
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16 Sep 16
The European Union has spent at least €17bn ($19bn) on beefed-up border security and deterrents that only push migrants to find more hidden and dangerous routes into the region, the Overseas...
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16 Sep 16
The European Commission has compiled a list of nations that could one day find themselves on the first common European Union blacklist of countries that do not adhere to good tax practices.
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15 Sep 16
Ukraine has secured the release of a long-delayed, $1bn tranche of its $17.5bn International Monetary Fund bailout, despite falling short of some reform requirements and facing staunch opposition...
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15 Sep 16
British MPs have quizzed Priti Patel, the country’s new secretary of state for international development, over her remarks that sparked concern about the future of one of the world’s leading aid...
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13 Sep 16
Pre-accession assistance supplied by the European Union to the Western Balkans worth more than €1bn has been only “partly effective”, auditors have concluded, despite noteworthy efforts from the...
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12 Sep 16
Russia will vote against the release of the next tranche of an International Monetary Fund loan to Ukraine, the country’s finance minister Anton Siluanov said today.
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12 Sep 16
The world’s first ever cross-border social impact bond was launched in Europe last week, to help unemployed Dutch people find jobs in Germany.
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12 Sep 16
Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has said criticised international creditors for squabbling among themselves over potential debt relief for the country, which he claims is exacerbating its...
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9 Sep 16
The eurozone’s finance ministers have called on all euro area member states to actively use spending reviews to improve the quality of public finances.
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9 Sep 16
The European Central Bank has held fire on extending its monetary policy stimulus measures to boost eurozone growth, even as the bank cut its growth forecasts for 2017 and 2018.
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8 Sep 16
The European Court of Justice has ordered Greece to pay a €10m lump sum to the European Commission for continually poor waste management, plus €30,000 for every day its waste situation does not...
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6 Sep 16
Greece looks set to have another €2.8bn in bailout funds frozen amid reports that its European creditors will withhold the cash for the rest of the year due to lack of progress with reforms.
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6 Sep 16
The European Union lost a "staggering" €160bn in value added tax revenues in 2014, according to European Commission data released today.
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6 Sep 16
The impact of European Union support proffered to Montenegro to help it work towards joining the bloc has been muted due to a lack of commitment to reform by the country’s government, the European...
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2 Sep 16
The €782m of EU aid intended to strengthen public administration in Moldova has had minimal effects, the European Court of Auditors has concluded.
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1 Sep 16
European Union customs investigators will be able to combat fraud much more effectively from today following reforms enabling them to track the movement of goods electronically.
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1 Sep 16
Internationalism is not a spent force but a crucial response to global economic challenges, according to the president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
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30 Aug 16
Apple has been ordered to repay up to €13bn in back taxes plus interest after the European Commission ruled that tax breaks granted to the company by Ireland for over two decades were illegal.
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24 Aug 16
The European Commission has weighed in on a Greek political row surrounding accusations that the former head of the country’s official statistics authority falsified official data, underpinning...
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23 Aug 16
A mega project to pipe gas from Azerbaijan to Europe both rewards an autocratic regime and promotes a misleading energy model