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Facebook face EU regulators fines; why?
May 18th, 2017
Facebook suffered a setback on Tuesday over how it uses the reams of information it collects about users worldwide, after two European privacy watchdogs said that the social network’s practices broke their countries’ data protection rules. The announcement by ...
EU raises eurozone growth forecasts
May 12th, 2017
Economic growth in the eurozone this year should be a bit better than previously forecast according to the latest outlook unveiled by EU Economic and Financial Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici. Gross domestic product for the 19-country bloc is expected ...
EU lawyers admit that £92billion Brexit Bill is impossible to enforce
May 8th, 2017
EU lawyers admit that £92billion Brexit Bill is impossible to enforce and warn Eurocrats against attempting to make the UK pay the massive bill EU officials were told they could not ‘cherry pick’ the accounts and hit the UK with ...
What Europeans want from EU to do
May 8th, 2017
#Eurobarometer: Europeans reveal what they want the EU to do more on Europeans increasingly realize the need for common solutions to the most pressing problems, yet question whether politics will be able to deliver, according to a new survey. ...
The European Banking Authority published Technical Standards for services linked to a payment account
May 8th, 2017
EBA publishes final draft Technical Standards under the Payment Accounts Directive to enhance transparency and comparison of payment account fees The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its final draft Technical Standards setting out the standardised terminology for services ...
European Energy Exchange acquires 100% ownership of US Nodal Exchange
May 5th, 2017
The European Energy Exchange (EEX), part of Deutsche Börse Group, and the owners of US-based Nodal Exchange Holdings, LLC have successfully closed the transaction under which EEX has acquired 100% of the equity in Nodal Exchange. All remaining regulatory ...
Scientists estimated that VW’s emissions cheating will lead to some 1,200 premature deaths in Europe
May 4th, 2017
Scientists are working on an assessment of the health impact of excess emissions from diesel cars in Europe in the wake of the Dieselgate scandal. The assessment is a follow-up to a study published last March, in which it ...
Unemployment rates in the EU regions ranged from 2.1% to 31.3%
May 2nd, 2017
More than 80% of the NUTS 2 regions of the European Union (EU) saw their unemployment rate fall in 2016 compared with 2015, and around 60% recorded a decrease of at least 0.5 percentage points. However, regional unemployment rates ...
AIB Bank fined millions euro for breach anti-money laundering compliance rules
April 27th, 2017
The Central Bank of Ireland (the ‘Central Bank’) fined Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c. (‘AIB’) €2,275,000 and reprimanded it for six breaches of the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering & Terrorist Financing) Act, 2010 (the ‘CJA 2010’). All six breaches have ...
European countries introduced tax breaks for cycling to work
April 19th, 2017
During the last months, four European countries have introduced tax breaks for cycling to work or extended existing ones: France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Italy. This shows that the idea of rewarding sustainable commuting behaviour through fiscal incentives is gaining ...
