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European Audit Regulators on audit quality issues
December 1st, 2014
Independent audit regulators from Europe, including the Luxembourg, have structured meetings with different stakeholders on audit quality issues. In November, the European Audit Inspection Group (EAIG) met KPMG’s European leadership and the audit standard setters (IAASB/IESBA boards). The meetings are intended to ...
EU’s Juncker survives no-confidence vote over tax deals
November 28th, 2014
The European Commission’s new president, Jean-Claude Juncker, comfortably survived a no-confidence vote on Thursday brought over news that Luxembourg had lured multinational businesses with super low tax rates during his period as prime minister. The censure motion in the ...
France, Italy, Belgium may break budget rules, EU to revisit in March
November 27th, 2014
The European Commission will tell France, Italy and Belgium on Friday their 2015 budgets risk breaking EU rules, but it will defer decisions on any action until early March. At that point, France could face a multi-billion euro fine ...
EU’s Juncker Launches Infrastructure Investment Plan
November 26th, 2014
New European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker launched a plan aimed at enticing pension funds, insurance companies and other major investors to finance cross-border European infrastructure projects. The plan to boost lackluster investment in the bloc is one of the ...
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 ...
How the EU Plans to Turn $26 Billion Into $390 Billion
November 24th, 2014
The European Union is planning a 21 billion-euro ($26 billion) fund to share the risks of new projects with private investors, two EU officials said. The new entity is designed to have an impact of about 15 times its ...
EU blackmails Serbia to impose sanctions on Russia
November 21st, 2014
Serbia must impose sanctions against Russia if it wants to join the European Union, the European Commissioner for Regional Policy Johannes Hahn said. “Serbia legally obliged, within the scope of negotiations about accession to the EU, to gradually align ...
EU says Starbucks’ Dutch tax deal may be illegal
November 14th, 2014
A deal between Starbucks Corp’s (SBUX.O) and Dutch authorities may be illegal state aid as it allows the world’s biggest coffee chain to make payments on a lower corporate income tax base, European Union antitrust regulators said on Friday. The comments ...
European Antitrust Regulators to Hold Discussions With Google’s Rivals
November 12th, 2014
European antitrust regulators will hold discussions with the companies most concerned by Google’s business practices before deepening existing investigations or resolving them, the new competition commissioner for the European Union said Tuesday. Google has faced an increasing barrage of ...
EU’s finance chief to unveil capital market plan in 2015
November 6th, 2014
The EU’s new financial services chief pledged on Thursday to set out his plans for a pan-European capital market by the middle of next year, aiming to reduce companies’ reliance on banks and help revive the bloc’s fragile economy. ...
