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25 Jan 18
The European Union has officially removed eight countries from its blacklist for tax havens, leaving the list to just nine jurisdictions outside the bloc.
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18 Jan 18
The European Union may remove eight countries from its tax haven blacklist after the jurisdictions offered to change their tax rules.
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5 Jan 18
Austria’s new government has set out plans to cut child benefit for parents living abroad, it said on Thursday.
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15 Dec 17
The European Union has suspended funding for Cambodia’s general election next year after the main opposition party dissolved.
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8 Dec 17
The EU’s tax blacklist is just another toothless, empty list, argues George Turner of the Tax Justice Network.
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30 Nov 17
Development objectives need to come first in the EU’s new External Investment Plan and be backed by high levels of transparency, says Xavier Sol of Counter Balance.
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29 Nov 17
A number of European Union member states would be blacklisted as tax havens according to the bloc’s own rules, NGOs have said.
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23 Nov 17
The European Parliament and Council have reached an agreement on the 2018 budget and committed to spending €160bn, up from the €157.9bn agreed for 2017.
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21 Nov 17
Paris and Amsterdam will host the EU’s medical and banking watchdogs after ministers picked names from a large bowl to decide where the organisations and 1,000 staff should move after Brexit.
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17 Nov 17
The EU’s member states should suspend the rollout of harmonised public sector accounting standards across the bloc and plough the money saved back into budgets, German auditors have said.
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14 Nov 17
European economies are recovering but governments should “prepare for a rainy day”, the International Monetary Fund has said.
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2 Nov 17
The economy of the eurozone grew by 2.5% over the year to September, the highest rate of growth since 2001, figures from the statistical office of the European Union found.
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9 Oct 17
The European Investment Bank’s plan for the region will add 690,000 new jobs by 2020 and help boost the European economy, the bank has said.
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4 Oct 17
European Union plans to introduce a common railway signalling system across the bloc is running behind schedule and the implementation target could be missed, auditors have warned.
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29 Sep 17
Governments in Europe and the EU continue to subsidise and finance fossil fuels, such as oil, gas and coal, despite their commitment to climate change and the Paris Agreement, the Overseas...
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29 Sep 17
A eurozone finance minister and a joint eurozone budget could be features of the European Union under plans being considered by the leaders of France and Germany.
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28 Sep 17
The European Union's spending from future budgets has reached an “all-time high”, EU auditors have said.
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26 Sep 17
The European Union decided on Monday to close the ‘excessive deficit procedure’ against Greece after the country’s improvements in its fiscal position and overall economic recovery.
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18 Sep 17
A €120m financial scheme for wireless internet access in public spaces across the EU will be launched, the European Parliament has announced.
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18 Sep 17
Further public and private funding in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania are needed to ensure drinking water is brought up to EU standards, a report by the European Court of Auditors has found.
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14 Sep 17
Europe will lead the fight against climate change as the economy ‘finally bounces back’, European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker has said.
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5 Sep 17
Work-related ill-health and injury is costing the EU 3.3 % of its GDP, equivalent to €476bn a year.
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5 Sep 17
European Union auditors have praised the first trust fund set up by the EU to assist a developing country.
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18 Aug 17
Annual inflation in the whole EU is stable at 1.5%, and at 1.3% in the eurozone, the Eurostat statistical body of the EU has said in its monthly update for July.
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15 Aug 17
The European Council has received 27 proposals from member states to host key EU agencies currently based in the UK after Brexit.