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Germany to introduce legal quotas for women on company boards
November 26th, 2014
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition parties agreed on Tuesday to a draft law that would force Germany’s leading listed companies to allocate 30 percent of the seats on non-executive boards to women from 2016 onward. Although Europe’s biggest economy has a female ...
EU will give France and Italy more time to implement tough reforms
November 25th, 2014
The EU will give France and Italy until next spring to implement tough reforms, delaying a verdict on national overspending originally set for this week, a European source told AFP. The decision, to be approved by the European Commission ...
Draghi Says ECB Measures Could Include Buying Government Bonds
November 18th, 2014
Mario Draghi has explicitly cited government-bond buying as a policy tool officials could use to stimulate the economy should the outlook worsen. “Unconventional measures might entail the purchase of a variety of assets, one of which is sovereign bonds,” the ...
The Frightening World of Vladimir Putin
November 10th, 2014
At the recent Valdai Discussion Club forum President Vladimir Putin conducted a three-hour tour of his own special world — the same world that German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned us he lives in. I must say that Putin’s world is more frightening and filled with ...
Euro zone to avoid recession, stagnation risks remain: EU Commission
November 4th, 2014
The euro zone will need another year to reach even a modest level of economic growth, the European Commission said on Tuesday, calling on Germany to help as Chancellor Angela Merkel again rejected a spending spree. The EU executive ...
Twenty-four European banks fail financial stress tests
October 27th, 2014
One in five European banks have failed crucial tests of their financial strength, leaving a €25bn (£19.6bn) capital hole in the continent’s banking system at a time of renewed fears that the five-year long eurozone crisis may be flaring ...
EU leaders agree to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030
October 24th, 2014
European leaders have struck a broad climate change pact obliging the EU as a whole to cut greenhouse gases by at least 40% by 2030. But key aspects of the deal that will form a bargaining position for global ...
Bloc in Europe Starts to Balk Over Austerity
October 17th, 2014
France, Italy and the European Central Bank have coalesced into a bloc against Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, and they are insisting that Berlin change course. With Europe once again rattling global markets, many of the largest European countries ...
In Court, Lawyer Calls E.C.B. Bond Plan ‘an Egregious Extension’ of Powers
October 14th, 2014
In legal news, Europe’s highest appeals court began hearing arguments on Tuesday morning on a suit that aims to block a European Central Bank bond-buying program that has never been deployed — but whose mere announcement two years ago ...
Prolonged German downturn could prompt stimulus rethink
October 8th, 2014
The last thing the faltering European economy would appear to need right now is a sudden downturn in Germany, hitherto the bloc’s pillar of strength. But a bout of German weakness may be precisely what is required to convince ...
