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9 Nov 16
The European Union’s tax blacklist is to focus on countries that fail to take part in global tax transparency and anti-corporate tax avoidance initiatives, it was decided yesterday.
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1 Nov 16
The World Bank has appointed the European Commission’s vice president for budget and human resources to the newly created role of chief executive.
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31 Oct 16
The European Union and Canada have signed a long-delayed trade deal after all EU member states managed to reach consensus on the controversial and widely opposed agreement.
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27 Oct 16
The European Commission cannot ensure the Common Agricultural Policy cross-compliance system is effective, the EU Court of Auditors has warned.
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13 Oct 16
Spending rules for European Union resources have become so complex that they encourage errors and lack transparency, the president of the European Court of Auditors has warned.
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11 Oct 16
European Union unemployment is at its lowest level since 2009, according to figures published by the European Commission today.
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4 Oct 16
European Union member states are breaking the state aid rules of the bloc’s major investment policy at a much higher rate than thought, according to the European Court of Auditors.
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29 Sep 16
MEPs have rejected all the cuts to the union’s draft 2017 budget proposed by the European Council earlier this month.
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29 Sep 16
The European Union’s budget chief Kristalina Georgieva has entered the race to become United Nations secretary general after fellow Bulgarian Irina Bokova failed to win the needed support.
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28 Sep 16
The European Commission has called for a mandatory lobbying register covering all three European Union institutions – the commission, the parliament and the council.
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26 Sep 16
The European Union will launch its largest-ever humanitarian aid programme, based on providing monthly electronic cash payments to refugees in Turkey, today.
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23 Sep 16
Almost €400m of European Union investment into ports and maritime infrastructure within the bloc since 2000 has been wasted, according to the European Court of Auditors.
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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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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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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
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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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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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...
9 Nov 16The European Union’s tax blacklist is to focus on countries that fail to take part in global tax transparency and anti-corporate tax avoidance initiatives, it was decided yesterday.
1 Nov 16The World Bank has appointed the European Commission’s vice president for budget and human resources to the newly created role of chief executive.
31 Oct 16The European Union and Canada have signed a long-delayed trade deal after all EU member states managed to reach consensus on the controversial and widely opposed agreement.
27 Oct 16The European Commission cannot ensure the Common Agricultural Policy cross-compliance system is effective, the EU Court of Auditors has warned.
13 Oct 16Spending rules for European Union resources have become so complex that they encourage errors and lack transparency, the president of the European Court of Auditors has warned.
11 Oct 16European Union unemployment is at its lowest level since 2009, according to figures published by the European Commission today.
4 Oct 16European Union member states are breaking the state aid rules of the bloc’s major investment policy at a much higher rate than thought, according to the European Court of Auditors.
29 Sep 16MEPs have rejected all the cuts to the union’s draft 2017 budget proposed by the European Council earlier this month.
26 Sep 16The European Union will launch its largest-ever humanitarian aid programme, based on providing monthly electronic cash payments to refugees in Turkey, today.
23 Sep 16Almost €400m of European Union investment into ports and maritime infrastructure within the bloc since 2000 has been wasted, according to the European Court of Auditors.
20 Sep 16The 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.
12 Sep 16Greek 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...
8 Sep 16The 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...
6 Sep 16Greece 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.
6 Sep 16The European Union lost a "staggering" €160bn in value added tax revenues in 2014, according to European Commission data released today.
2 Sep 16The €782m of EU aid intended to strengthen public administration in Moldova has had minimal effects, the European Court of Auditors has concluded.
30 Aug 16Apple 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.
