European Voice reports that EU member states yesterday agreed a blueprint envisaging €3.6 billion in cuts to the EU budget proposed by the European Commission for 2011. However, the new total figure - €126.6 billion – still represents a 2.9 percent increase from the previous year’s budget.
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OpenEurope on 16th Aug 2010 (via openeurope.org.uk)
The European Commission plans to ditch accounting requirements for the EU's smallest companies in an effort to ease the administrative burden and save each business up to €1,200 per year, or a total of €6.3 billion.
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EurActiv on 2nd Mar 2009 (via euractiv.com)
The European Commission unveiled yesterday its proposal for the next long-term EU budget, running from 2014 to 2020. Despite the UK, France and Germany demanding that EU spending rise by no more than inflation, the Commission’s draft envisages a 5% increase from the current budget period.
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OpenEurope on 30th Jun 2011 (via openeurope.org.uk)
Open Europe yesterday published a new briefing responding to the European Commission’s proposal for a 5% above-inflation increase to the 2014-2020 EU budget. The Commission also earmarked an extra €58bn for projects and funds outside the main balance sheet, which would take the overall increase of EU expenditure to at least 7% compared to the previous budget period.
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OpenEurope on 1st Jul 2011 (via openeurope.org.uk)
The UK is "closer" to joining the euro than ever before, according to the president of the European commission. José Manuel Barroso said some British politicians were considering signing up to the single currency in a bid to beat the effects of the global economic crisis. He told French radio station RTL: "We are now closer than ever before. "I'm not going to break the confidentiality ...
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Guardian on 1st Dec 2008 (via guardian.co.uk)
The euro zone is already in a technical recession and economic growth will come to a virtual standstill next year, the European Commission said Monday.
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InternationalHeraldTribune on 3rd Nov 2008 (via iht.com)
Anticipating the beginning of the Swedish EU Presidency, the European Commission yesterday (10 June) tabled a wide-ranging strategy for the Baltic region, focusing on an environmental clean-up of the sea and energy interconnections. The EU executive said the strategy may provide a blueprint for other regions, like the Danube or the Mediterranean.
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EurActiv on 11th Jun 2009 (via euractiv.com)
The European Commission will increase funding for its Future and Emerging Technologies programme to €170m in 2013 and, if member states agree, to €200m in 2015
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FT on 22nd Apr 2009 (via traxfer.ft.com)
The European Commission has said it expects the UK's retail distribution review to be compatible with Mifid II, enabling the UK to continue with its commission ban proposals
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FT on 6th Nov 2011 (via ft.com)
Being a very simple womble, I'm a little befuddled over the European Commission's "recovery plan", launched amid much trumpeting today. The figure of 200bn Euros has been mentioned, in the context of whatever the Euro-twaddle is for "fiscal stimulation". It is hoped that it will save "millions" of European jobs. The Commission says that the money will be used to improve job training, ene...
An EU blueprint to increase businesses accountability on environmental and social matters has raised expectations among NGOs that welcomed the "change of tone" in the European Commission's approach but remained cautious on the implementation. More »
