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7 Apr 17
Greece and its creditors have chipped away at a deadlock over the next phase of its €86bn bailout deal, reaching an agreement on the “overarching issues”.
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5 Apr 17
Progress is being made with European Union member state’s partnership spending plans, but performance measures are too complex, auditors have concluded.
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4 Apr 17
Eurozone unemployment fell to its lowest level in eight years in February, but auditors have warned that the bloc’s effort to reduce youth unemployment has fallen short of expectations.
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28 Mar 17
European Union aid for Tunisia was overambitious and too lax, according to the European Court of Auditors.
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27 Mar 17
Portugal has recorded its lowest deficit in 40 years after halving it in 2016, figures published by the country’s national statistics office last week showed.
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27 Mar 17
A tiff over collective bargaining in Greece resurfaced last week when prime minister Alexis Tsipras sent a letter to European leaders accusing them of double standards.
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10 Mar 17
European Central Bank president Mario Draghi said the euro is “irrevocable” while outlining a “more optimistic” outlook for the currency bloc yesterday.
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3 Mar 17
Eurozone inflation surpassed the bloc’s target rate for the first time since 2013 in February, according to preliminary data published yesterday by Eurostat.
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21 Feb 17
The European Council has agreed fresh measures to prevent corporations avoiding tax via countries that are not members of the European Union.
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21 Feb 17
Greece and its creditors have found some “common ground” following the latest meetings on its stalling €86bn bailout in Brussels yesterday.
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21 Feb 17
The European Union’s flagship biodiversity programme, Natura 2000, requires better oversight and financial management, auditors have said.
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20 Feb 17
Hungary could be forced to withdraw its bid to host the 2024 Olympic Games in the capital Budapest after a petition to hold a referendum on the matter received more than double the signatures needed...
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16 Feb 17
The European Commission has delivered “final warnings” on pollution to a host of the bloc’s major economies.
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16 Feb 17
MEPs have ratified CETA, the controversial free trade deal between the European Union and Canada, despite heavy resistance from the public.
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15 Feb 17
Weak growth in Germany, Italy and Greece in the final quarter of last year has dampened an optimistic outlook for the ever-sluggish eurozone.
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14 Feb 17
All 27 European Union economies are forecast to grow for three years in a row – marking the first time the European Commission has made such a prediction in almost a decade.
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10 Feb 17
Euro-area unemployment fell at a quicker pace than across other advanced economies in 2016, data from the OECD showed yesterday.
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8 Feb 17
The rift over the Greek bailout programme has deepened after the country’s government and European leaders hit back at a “pessimistic” International Monetary Fund report published yesterday.
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7 Feb 17
A rare public split within the International Monetary Fund’s executive board has served as yet another sign of just how contentious an issue the Greek bailout has become.
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6 Feb 17
Mass protests are continuing across Romania despite the government rescinding an emergency decree that had repealed the country’s anti-corruption laws.
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3 Feb 17
The eurozone’s rocky past was not due to inherent faults in the single market or currency, but because national policymakers didn’t stick to the plan, the European Central Bank chief has said.
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2 Feb 17
Protests are growing in Romania after the government repealed key anti-corruption legislation by emergency decree.
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2 Feb 17
A more credible system of penalising European Union member states that break the bloc’s budgetary rules is needed, according to the International Monetary Fund.
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31 Jan 17
The eurozone economy grew by 0.5% in the final quarter of 2016, according to official figures, suggesting that Europe’s tentative recovery is continuing.
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30 Jan 17
The eurozone confiscated around €8.6m worth of counterfeit €500 bank notes in the last six months of 2016, according to data published last week by the European Central Bank.