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Greek Citizens can have access To Legal Content through an online hub of legal information
March 31st, 2016
Lawspot Wants To Give All Greek Citizens Open Access To Legal Content It’s no secret that, unfortunately, Greece is going through a very difficult moment. Economic crisis, social unrest, unemployment, refugees pushing at the borders. It looks, sometimes, as an ...
These Eight EU Countries Are in the Budget Danger Zone
March 21st, 2016
When it comes to fiscal discipline in the European Union, three is the magic number. That’s a deficit limit of 3 percent of GDP, and five EU states will make the budgetary bad books this year by breaching that level, according ...
Will bitcoin provide banks with their ‘Kodak Moment’?
March 16th, 2016
The world’s banks are facing a ‘Kodak Moment’ if they continue to dismiss the virtual currency bitcoin as just the opening act for more revolutionary blockchain-based innovation, says Max Tannahill, a business change and implementation manager at ANZ It ...
Cyprus to Exit From Bailout Program
March 8th, 2016
Country follows Ireland, Spain and Portugal, despite not completing a final task Cyprus will successfully exit from its bailout program this month despite not completing one final task required by its creditors, eurozone finance ministers said Monday. The island-state’s exit ...
The Collapse Of Italy’s Banks Threatens To Plunge The European Financial System Into Chaos
March 8th, 2016
The Italian banking system is a “leaning tower” that truly could completely collapse at literally any moment. And as Italy’s banks begin to go down like dominoes, it is going to set off financial panic all over Europe unlike ...
Eurozone unemployment rate falls to 10.3%
March 1st, 2016
Unemployment in the eurozone fell for a third consecutive month in January, dropping to its lowest rate since August 2011. Eurostat, the EU’s statistical agency, said the jobless rate in the 19-country eurozone declined to 10.3% in January from 10.4% ...
Euro area annual inflation down to -0.2%
February 29th, 2016
Euro area annual inflation is expected to be -0.2% in February 2016, down from 0.3% in January, according to a flash estimate from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. Looking at the main components of euro area ...
Single market: Commission urges four Member States to comply with the Services Directive in the area of regulated professions
February 26th, 2016
The European Commission is taking further steps in its infringement procedures against Austria, Cyprus, Germany, and Poland on the grounds that their national rules include excessive and unjustified obstacles in the area of professional services. Despite the exchanges held with the four Member ...
Vgenopoulos: there’s no point in Cyprus continuing to investigate me
February 25th, 2016
There are no ongoing investigations in Greece into allegations of wrongdoing by former Laiki Bank strongman Andreas Vgenopoulos, and such investigations in Cyprus have no point, the embattled financier said on Wednesday. In a statement, Vgenopoulos commented on an ...
EU insolvency law reform could boost growth and jobs across Europe, finds new AFME report
February 24th, 2016
AFME has published new research showing that European insolvency law reform could boost GDP output and create jobs across Europe. Insolvency reform is a key plank of the European Commission’s action plan on Capital Markets Union (CMU). The research, produced in ...
