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Brussels, 23 March 2012 Press statement by President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy following the meeting with Prime Minister of Montenegro Igor Lukšić SPEECH/12/218 Date: 23/03/2012 Neelie Kroes Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda Giving Europe's scientists the tools to deliver International Conference on Research Infrastructures (ICRI 2012) Copenhagen, 23 March 2012 Nationality condition for notaries: Member States that have brought an end to discrimination see the infringement proceedings against them closed by the Commission
The Greek rescue isn’t helping. It’s just harming. And with it is receding the rule of law.
Greece, the serf of Europe | Presseurop (English)
Performance The finance ministers of the eurozone are to finalise a deal next week on enlarging the eurozone's capacity to bail out a country with debt problems. Three of the EU's wealthiest countries are pushing for the closure of two EU funds intended to demonstrate solidarity with other member states. The European Union's aid to economically deprived regions and social groups has become a battleground for arguments over the size of the Union's budget.
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The US president should have nominated a woman and a pro-growth candidate for the presidency of the World Bank. The selection of a successor to Robert Zoellick as president of the World Bank was supposed to initiate a new era of open meritocratic competition, breaking the traditional hold that the United States has had on the job. Indeed, Zoellick's own appointment was widely regarded as ‘illegitimate' from that perspective.
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The world’s leading securities and futures regulator wants to see a clampdown on extensive conflicts of interest in the exchange-traded funds sector More than culture shifted on Wall Street The role of finance in the economy was clearly transformed over the past decade or so - and the economy hasn't necessarily been better for it
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BY THE standards of past summits, European leaders finished early — shortly before 10pm on January 30th. And by the acrimonious standards of past gatherings, notably last month’s bust-up with Britain, this event was uneventful, even amicable. Agreement was reached on the fiscal compact, the new treaty to toughen budget rules, in record time: less than two months. A final row between France and Poland over who gets to attend which summits was resolved with a complicated compromise. This involves variable configurations of meetings involving 17 countries (the euro zone), 23 (the largely-forgotten Euro-Plus Pact, 25 (the signatories of the fiscal compact), 27 (all EU member states, still in charge of the single market) and 28 (involving soon-to-join Croatia). It shows that, at the very least, European leaders can negotiate rapidly when they have the political will to do so — and when the British and the Czechs decide to step aside.
Charlemagne's notebook | The Economist
The U.K. and the Bank of England should do more to encourage recovery in the country's economy, the IMF said, including possible rate cuts and more stimulus. IMF chief Christine Lagarde called on euro-zone governments to accept more common liability for each other's debts, after the OECD backed joint bond issuance for the first time. The OECD warned the euro area's debt crisis could pull the bloc's economy into a vicious downward spiral, as it slashed its forecasts for growth. Shares of Facebook continued to slide in premarket trading amid a Reuters report that an analyst for one of its banks had trimmed his outlook for the social-network company's revenue just ahead of the deal.
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Comment Awards The Financial Times has won four categories in the 2011 Comment Awards including best comment pages, business commentator: John Gapper , cultural commentator: Simon Kuper and foreign commentator: David Pilling
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Comment Awards The FT has won four categories in the 2011 Comment Awards from Editorial Intelligence including best comment pages, business commentator for John Gapper , cultural commentator for Simon Kuper and foreign commentator for David Pilling
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