This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. The Commission welcomes today’s agreement between the European Parliament and the Council on the most ambitious and comprehensive reform of the EU’s economic governance framework since the aftermath of the economic and financial crisis. The Commission presented its reform proposals in April 2023. The […]Commission welcomes political agreement on a new economic governance framework fit for the future
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This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. The Commission welcomes today’s agreement between the European Parliament and the Council on the most ambitious and comprehensive reform of the EU’s economic governance framework since the aftermath of the economic and financial crisis. The Commission presented its reform proposals in April 2023. The […]Economic governance reform: improving credibility, ownership and scope for investment
December 12, 2023 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. The Economics Committee adopted its position on new economic governance rules, prioritising investment and national ownership and improving the system’s credibility. MEPs in the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee adopted three texts (see background below) with one containing substantial changes to the Commission’s original […]Commission proposes new economic governance rules fit for the future
April 27, 2023 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. The Commission has today presented legislative proposals to implement the most comprehensive reform of the EU’s economic governance rules since the aftermath of the economic and financial crisis. The central objective of these proposals is to strengthen public debt sustainability and promote sustainable and […]Building an economic governance framework fit for the challenges ahead
November 10, 2022 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. The European Commission has today adopted a Communication setting out orientations for a reformed EU economic governance framework. Taking into account the key concerns over the current framework, these aim to strengthen debt sustainability and enhance sustainable and inclusive growth through investment and reforms. […]11 ways to align global economic governance with green new deal
May 4, 2021 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Thomas Hale, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford The clock is ticking to achieve global climate targets amid a devastating pandemic and financial crisis.To aid recovery and the transition to a green […]Discussions kick off among MEPs and national MPs on economic governance
February 20, 2020 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. MEPs and members of national parliaments kicked off their two-day yearly gathering on Tuesday, dedicated to discussing EU economic governance. The opening, chaired by Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee Chair Irene Tinagli (S&D, IT), saw interventions from top European politicians leading the implementation of […]Commission presents review of EU economic governance and launches debate on its future
February 5, 2020 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. The Commission today presents a review of the effectiveness of the economic surveillance framework and launches a public debate on its future. The EU framework for economic surveillance has guided Member States in achieving their economic and fiscal policy objectives. It helped attain closer […]Brexit update: Tusk’s proposal is out and Cameron takes it all
February 3, 2016 by Leave a Comment
It was just yesterday when Donald Tusk, president of the European Council (EC), released a draft deal that intends to keep Britain within the EU. This new proposal is mostly aligned with what the British Prime Minister has been asking for from the European Union. However, this draft text must be voted by all 28 […]It’s a week dedicated to all EU budgets; seven days that can make or break the Union
November 11, 2013 by Leave a Comment
All EU member states budgets including the EU’s proper one will be under scrutiny this week in Brussels. Let’s start from the Union’s own budget for 2014. Today Monday, a Conciliation Committee, made up by the 28 representatives of the member states and 28 European legislators, has to agree on EU’s budget for 2014. Earlier […]EU economic governance: More exploitation for the weaker countries
October 18, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Last Tuesday 15 October was the last day the 28 EU member states, and more so the 18 Eurozone countries, had to submit to the Commission for approval their draft budgets for 2014. It is the first time that the European Union member states and more particularly the euro area countries, before presenting their state […]EU Commission accuses Germany of obstructing growth and the banking union
May 30, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The European Commission at the Semester Press Conference in Brussels yesterday confirmed in the most official way, what was already known. Belgium, the Netherlands and Portugal, are getting an extension of the deadline to correct their fiscal deficits by one year and France, Poland, Slovenia and Spain by two years. This Semester conference comes in […]The EU Parliament slams Commission on economic governance
May 24, 2013 by Leave a Comment
European Commission vice President, Ollie Rehn, responsible for Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Euro, delivered a speech in the European Parliament on the “Social pillar of the European Monetary Union-EMU”, which was very ill-received by the legislators. The Parliamentarians yesterday went as far as to comment bitterly in a resolution they issued afterwards, saying […]EU: Centralised economic governance and bank supervision may lead to new crisis
January 24, 2013 by Leave a Comment
In the first Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) of the year on January 22, the two first and more important items on the agenda were the “enhanced economic governance and policy coordination” (the “two-pack” economic governance) and secondly the “financial regulation and bank supervision”. On both accounts the Council made giant steps forward setting […]
