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Supervising the financial markets: Poul Nyrup Rasmussen MEP You need an active subscription to read this article

Pragmatism should guide the EU in enforcing transparency in financial services.

Supervising the financial markets: Wolf Klinz MEP You need an active subscription to read this article

Financial markets need stronger supervisory systems and better information exchange that unite national and European supervision.
Thursday, 4 September 2008

Limited resources, laudable policies You need an active subscription to read this article

Central bank's stock rises.
Thursday, 4 September 2008

Credit ratings agencies blamed for market losses You need an active subscription to read this article

But would be fresh regulation be posturing?
Thursday, 4 September 2008

Is McCreevy losing the light touch? You need an active subscription to read this article

Europe's financial actors fear that their ability to compete at internatonal level will be damaged.
Thursday, 4 September 2008

Consolidation makes it hard to walk alone You need an active subscription to read this article

The current financial turmoil is reinforcing arguments for stronger central authorities.
Thursday, 4 September 2008

Brown energy and blackouts in the Balkans You need an active subscription to read this article

Energy consumption in the Balkans has risen only modestly since European communism was consigned to history. For years, war and its aftermath curbed [...]
Thursday, 28 August 2008

Balkan reform vital for EU entry - 2 You need an active subscription to read this article

The eventful Balkan spring of 2008 saw Kosovo peacefully gain independence, pro-European forces in Serbia trump the isolationist nationalist [...]
Thursday, 28 August 2008

Balkan reform vital for EU entry - 1 You need an active subscription to read this article

The recent war in the Caucasus region demonstrated clearly that we cannot be happy to live with frozen conflicts. All too easily they can thaw and [...]
Thursday, 28 August 2008

'Show us reform and we'll give you a visa' You need an active subscription to read this article

The European Commission is using the lure of visa-free travel to secure reforms and greater co-operation from Balkan governments. But is it [...]
Thursday, 28 August 2008

Macedonia's rush to spur economic development You need an active subscription to read this article

Macedonia is slowly emerging from a painful economic transformation. Growth has picked up to 5.2% in the first quarter of 2008, inflation is fairly [...]
Thursday, 28 August 2008

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Montenegro: independent and less dysfunctional You need an active subscription to read this article

Montenegro has been independent only since May 2006, when a referendum dissolved the unloved and largely dysfunctional state union with neighbouring [...]
Thursday, 28 August 2008

Albania: struggling slowly for European integration You need an active subscription to read this article

Albania is the only country in recent European history that had to be propped up by a peacetime military intervention: in 1997, when the collapse of [...]
Thursday, 28 August 2008

EU to tread on toes in Kosovo You need an active subscription to read this article

Kosovo is a special case among the countries of the western Balkans because not all EU member states recognise its independence, unilaterally [...]
Thursday, 28 August 2008

Serbia – from dead weight to Balkan anchor You need an active subscription to read this article

Serbia is at the heart of the western Balkans politically, economically and geographically. But rather than acting as an anchor for the region, for [...]
Thursday, 28 August 2008

In ‘a country unlike any other' reform is painfully slow work You need an active subscription to read this article

This has been a good year for Bosnia and Herzegovina's ambitions to forge closer ties with the EU. After years of deadlock, Bosnia's politicians in [...]
Thursday, 28 August 2008

Seven states to come under EU canopy You need an active subscription to read this article

All seven countries of the Western Balkans – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia – want to become EU [...]
Thursday, 28 August 2008

Agriculture – in sickness and in health: Michl Ebner MEP You need an active subscription to read this article

One of the main challenges of the CAP health-check is to recognise the contribution to EU agriculture of hill and mountain farming.
Thursday, 31 July 2008

Agriculture – in sickness and in health: Luis Manuel Capoulas Santos MEP You need an active subscription to read this article

Aid should be maintained to small farmers, who represent nearly a third of all European farmers


Thursday, 31 July 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

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