Trends in China suggest it is not the threat many in the US believe, creating scope for defusing trade tensions. This paper by the European Think Tank Bruegel explains why.
Ukraine receives the first payment of €1.5 billion generated from immobilised Russian assets. These extraordinary revenues generated by EU operators and held by central securities depositories from immobilised Russian sovereign assets were made available by Euroclear to the Commission as a first instalment on 23 July 2024.
The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Prysmian, world leader in the power and telecom cables sector, have signed a new, €450 million finance contract to facilitate electricity transmission and distribution in Europe.
The Commission disbursed to Greece the fourth payment for €2.3 billion in loans (net of pre-financing) under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). As for all Member States, payments made to Greece under the RRF are performance-based and depend on the implementation by Greece of the investments and reforms described in its recovery and resilience plan.
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets regulator and supervisor, has today published an Opinion on the Sustainable Finance Regulatory Framework, setting out possible long-term improvements.
The European Commission has today adopted a delegated act that postpones by one year (i.e. until 1 January 2026) the date of application of one part the Basel III standards in the EU – the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB). The FRTB incorporates more sophisticated risk measurement techniques that aim to align capital charges more closely to the actual risks banks are facing in their activities in capital
Lithuania has experienced fast income convergence over the past two decades and the economy is projected to return to growth this year after a shallow recession. However, higher inflation differentials following the shock triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have had an impact on competitiveness, even though Lithuania entered this crisis with an undervalued real effective exchange rate. At the same time, global fragmentation, long-term spending pressures, eroded corporate profitability,
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation[1] with Italy. Italy’s economy has recovered well from the COVID and energy price shocks. Activity expanded by 0.9 percent in 2023 and, by the first quarter of 2024, real GDP had exceeded the pre-global financial crisis level.
Following the elections to the bureau of the European Parliament’s committees and subcommittees, Co-Chairmen Nicola Procaccini and Joachim Brudziński congratulated the newly elected chairs and vice-chairs. Committee MEPs elected Veronika Vrecionová as Chair of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI), Johan Van Overtveldt as Chair of the Committee on Budgets (BUDG) and Bogdan Rzońca as Chair of the Committee on Petitions (PETI).
These are the headlines of our weekly Insight EU Finance Monitoring, published last Friday.
All of Parliament’s 20 standing committees and 4 subcommittees held their constitutive meetings on Tuesday to elect their Chair and Vice-Chairs. Here are the results for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON).
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