The European Union reached a long-awaited agreement on reform of financial supervision, paving the way for the establishment of three pan-EU watchdogs to oversee controls on banks and insurers in the region from next year
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FT on 2nd Sep 2010 (via ft.com)
European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet has refused to endorse the package of eurozone sanctions decided by European Union finance ministers. Criticism grew in Germany of a compromise that watered down debt and deficit controls
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FT on 20th Oct 2010 (via ft.com)
Has David Cameron’s European reform programme been killed off? In March last year, the Conservatives hired out a warehouse conference centre on the outskirts of Brussels and hosted a meeting to discuss the newly-formed Movement for European Reform. It was supposed to be about the future of the European Union, but it got bogged down with a presentation of the Leftist movie Black Gold and a session...
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AlexSingleton on 14th Jul 2008 (via blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
Has David Cameron’s European reform programme been killed off? In March last year, the Conservatives hired out a warehouse conference centre on the outskirts of Brussels and hosted a meeting to discuss the newly-formed Movement for European Reform. It was supposed to be about the future of the European Union, but it got bogged down with a presentation of the Leftist movie Black Gold and a session...
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AlexSingleton on 27th Jun 2008 (via blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
Republicans signalled that they would take the fight over financial regulation reform to the Senate floor after deciding that talks aimed at reaching a bipartisan deal had failed.
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FT on 29th Apr 2010 (via traxfer.ft.com)
The US government will once again be able to sift through European financial transaction data after a controversial information-sharing plan was approved by the European Union after months of wrangling
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The European Commission has published a European Database for Financial Education (EDFE) on the "Europa" website. It has been designed to reference numerous financial education programmes offered by public or private institutions in the European Union.
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PublicTechnology on 20th Jan 2009 (via publictechnology.net)
It remains unclear whether a bridge loan from the €440bn European Financial Stability Fund, which the European Union created to deal with future Greek-like crises, will work for Ireland
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FT on 12th Nov 2010 (via ft.com)
European Union leaders are close to a deal on the legal guarantees of national sovereignty that will be offered to Ireland so that it can hold a second referendum that could unblock the group's Lisbon reform treaty, EU diplomats said
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FT on 15th Jun 2009 (via traxfer.ft.com)
The European Union is edging closer to a final deal to streamline regulation in the EU insurance sector and make the bloc's multi-trillion market safer and more efficient, said EU officials yesterday (25 March).
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EurActiv on 26th Mar 2009 (via euractiv.com)
European Union finance ministers abandon efforts to get a compromise deal over the EU's controversial proposed rules at their meeting in Brussels
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FT on 16th Mar 2010 (via traxfer.ft.com)
