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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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

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 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

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

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

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

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