TAG: Regulation
A quiet revolution rocks central banking
There’s a quiet revolution happening at the heart of central banking. On the surface, the inconspicu...
8 months ago
Fires and a toppled statue: Farmers clash with police by EU Parliament
BRUSSELS — Police fired water at protesting farmers who clogged the streets of Brussels with tractor...
8 months ago
How the far right aims to ride farmers’ outrage to power in Europe
BRUSSELS — If the far right ever seizes power across Europe, it may well ride in on the back of a tr...
8 months ago
French farmers block highways and aim for Yellow Jacket redux
AGEN, France — A group of farmers brewed coffee in an improvised camp surrounded by tractors and hay...
8 months ago
Ursula’s empty green Davos promise
Almost a year ago to the day, Ursula von der Leyen traveled to the snowy environs of Davos to make a...
8 months ago
Dutch farmers back Wilders as centrist nightmares come true
Geert Wilders is everything European centrists loathe. Now, the far-right Dutch firebrand is winning over the farmers Brussels has spent decades trying to placate. Wilders — who stood on an anti-migrant, Euroskeptic platform and has previously called for...
6 months ago
The Markus Ferber affair: When lawmaking meets business
BRUSSELS — Is it kosher to aim to make more than €1 million from a consulting scheme in which a powerful German politician advises banks on financial rules he helped write into EU law? That was exactly the plan of Michael Heijmeijer, a Dutch businessman,...
6 months ago
The EU has a €30 billion hidden fees problem
Last year, European consumers and businesses lost €30 billion to hidden fees when sending and spending money internationally. And it is only getting worse, in 2019 it was €22 billion. But there is an easy way to crack down on these hidden charges: taking...
6 months ago
Microsoft splits Teams and Office globally
While it hasn’t changed the stock’s short-term trend, IGTV's Angeline Ong looks at why this is the start of regulatory-prompted changes within the business software sector. (AI Video Summary) Microsoft to sell Teams seperately from Office Microsoft is...
6 months ago
€500B remains unspent from EU’s Covid recovery fund
BRUSSELS — Governments have received less than a third of the EU's original €723 billion pot to help boost post-Covid economic recovery and are now heaping pressure on the European Commission to speed up payments.Countries are demanding the Commission sla...
6 months ago
EU launches probe into Chinese wind turbines
BRUSSELS — The European Commission is launching a new anti-subsidy probe into Chinese wind turbines.The news is expected to be announced by European Commission Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager at 3 p.m. CET, in a speech in Princeton that was pr...
6 months ago
New EU rules to curb deforestation add to farmers’ red tape woes
For months, European farmers have been protesting what they see as excessive red tape and environmental restrictions from Brussels. Soon, they’ll have even more forms to fill out. Under new EU rules set to apply from January, European farmers will be requ...
6 months ago
Fraud-busters swoop on Greek contracts involving €2.5B of EU recovery funds
ATHENS — Authorities are investigating allegations of fraud linked to the way €2.5 billion in EU funds has been awarded to just 10 companies in Greece, POLITICO can reveal. The offices of the country’s three telecommunications firms — Cosmote, Vodafone an...
6 months ago
Brussels fights Putin with an arsenal of acronyms: The EU’s defense plans, explained
When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, EU politicians lined up to demand an urgent rethink of European security. In order to protect themselves in an uncertain world, EU countries must reinforce their own defenses and work together far m...
6 months ago