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15 Feb 16
The European Union today launched the European Medical Corps (EMC), which it hopes will enable more rapid deployment of medical and public health teams in emergencies around the world.
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15 Feb 16
Bosnia and Herzegovina has filed its application for European Union membership, indicating that it plans to accelerate the reforms needed for it to join the bloc.
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15 Feb 16
The fall in local and regional government (LRG) borrowing across Europe is likely to end in 2016 as the growing refinancing needs of some offsets declines elsewhere, according to analysis by credit...
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12 Feb 16
MEPs from the European Union’s committee of the regions have warned that the bloc’s regional policy is being hindered by red tape, lack of coordination and overly complex rules.
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11 Feb 16
Ukraine looks to have secured the continuation of its $17.5bn bailout from the International Monetary Fund after “constructive” discussions with managing director Christine Lagarde.
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11 Feb 16
Some 4.8 million more Europeans have been living in poverty since the financial crisis and families in particular have been struggling to make ends meet, the European Foundation for the Improvement...
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10 Feb 16
The International Monetary Fund has said it could withdraw its budget support to Ukraine unless the country’s leadership accelerates governance reforms and the fight against corruption.
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9 Feb 16
There has been a threefold increased in the size of the middle class in eastern European and central Asian nations since 2001, according to the United Nations Development Programme.
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8 Feb 16
Portugal’s draft budget for 2016 is “at risk” of failing to comply with eurzone budgetary obligations, the European Commission has warned.
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3 Feb 16
The rate of young refugees arriving in Europe has dramatically increased since last year, with one in three of those arriving now being children, UNICEF has warned.
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2 Feb 16
A draft agreement to reform the UK’s relationship with the European Union published today would allow Britain to restrict in-work benefits for European migrants as part of an “emergency...
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29 Jan 16
The head of the United Nations’ refugee agency has warned any policies of “control and closure” in Europe to tackle the refugee crisis would be “dangerous”.
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29 Jan 16
The World Bank is to help Latvia improve the efficiency, equity and competitiveness of its tax system, it was announced yesterday.
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28 Jan 16
The European Commission has set out new measures to crack down on corporate tax avoidance that seek to push member states to improve coordination of approaches.
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28 Jan 16
UK government ministers have insisted that arms sales to Saudi Arabia do not undermine international development objectives in Yemen despite charities telling MPs that the positions were incompatible...
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27 Jan 16
The Danish parliament has voted to pass controversial laws enabling the confiscation of money and valuables from asylum seekers to help pay for their stay in the country.
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26 Jan 16
The security and stability challenges the European Union faces require closer, better coordinated collective action, according to the commissioner for international cooperation and development.
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26 Jan 16
The European Commission's response to the financial crisis of the late 2000s was "generally weak", with measures not applied consistently and lacking in thorough scrutiny, auditors have said.
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26 Jan 16
A review by the European Commission has found that 11 countries in the bloc face high risks to their public finances due to forecasts for increases in public sector debt levels.
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25 Jan 16
The UK has pledged £30m in new aid funding to help those arriving in Europe after escaping the brutal conflict in Syria, the country’s international development secretary announced on Friday.
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22 Jan 16
Economic growth in Moldova “came in surprisingly strong” last year but significant weaknesses and risks remain a concern, the International Monetary Fund has said.
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21 Jan 16
The UK’s Department for International Development needs to be better placed to ensure value for money in its response to fluid, long-term crises, the country’s public spending watchdog has said.
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20 Jan 16
The European Commission has ordered Belgium to recover €211m in funding granted to several companies, part of a global steel trading group, after finding that payments breached state aid rules.
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20 Jan 16
The UK Department for International Development’s overreliance on the international health system meant it failed to heed early warnings about the scale of the Ebola outbreak, British MPs concluded.
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20 Jan 16
The increase in refugee numbers in Europe will place extra pressure on the public purse in the short term, the International Monetary Fund has found, but could have positive economic effects in the...