The market is screaming its lack of concern about UK fiscal credibility. Government debt is long-term and denominated in the domestic currency. We are terrified of a confidence bogey who is asleep, writes Martin Wolf

Working shorter hours could reduce the burden our lifestyles impose on the environment while offering solutions to the mass unemployment caused by the economic crisis, according to new research.

Despite the EU's clearly-defined employment policies and 2020 job target, France will seek its own ways of responding to its citizens' main concerns &# access to the job market and job security. EurActiv France reports.

Handelsblatt reports on the Commission’s proposals for stricter regulation and supervision of the derivatives market, to be published later in the month. According to a draft of the proposal seen by the paper, the Commission plans to take a "central role" in regulating "bilaterally traded derivatives [which] will have to be processed through a central counterparty".

At least this woman from the nef knows her statistics: The result: we spend more and more time at work (since 1981 two-adult households have added six hours to their combined weekly workload) The number she uses is true: but hugely and highly misleading. For men market working hours have decreased. For women they have increased. This is

'Definite possibility' of agreement on how to reform the EU's patchy system of financial supervision, including the establishment of pan-EU watchdogs for the banking, insurance and financial market sectors

Cigarette smuggling and fake designer goods will top the agenda when Europe's Anti-Fraud Commissioner Algirdas Šemeta meets Chinese officials in Shanghai this week. The commissioner told EurActiv the EU has an "enormous problem" with illegal goods entering the European market from China.

Via. See? Cash-strapped Bulgaria and Romania hoped taxing cigarettes would be an easy way to raise money but the hikes are driving smokers to a growing black market instead. Criminal gangs and impoverished Roma communities near borders with countries where prices are lower — Serbia, Macedonia, Moldova and Ukraine — have taken to smuggling which has wiped out

At the ASI. Yes, the internal NHS market does work. We have the proof.

Pornography considered as a metric for Iraqi reconstruction. The current situation seems to be that the religious militias have largely retreated from the scene and the government is in too much disarray to organize a crackdown, so the market flourishes....