This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, French restructuring aid of a total of €167.8 million to airline Corsair. The aid consists of an €80 million write-off on loans that were approved by the Commission in December 2020 and €87.8 million […]Commission approves €167.8 million French restructuring aid to Corsair
December 24, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, French restructuring aid of a total of €167.8 million to airline Corsair. The aid consists of an €80 million write-off on loans that were approved by the Commission in December 2020 and €87.8 million […]Commission approves €5 billion French scheme to facilitate the export of wines and spirits to the US
May 9, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, a €5 billion French re-insurance scheme for export credit to the United States (‘US’). The scheme will be in place from 8 May 2025 to 8 July 2025 and will allow exporters of wines […]Commission services sign administrative arrangements with French and Irish media regulators to support enforcement of Digital Services Act
October 24, 2023 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. The Commission services have signed administrative arrangements with the media regulators of France (Autorité de regulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique, Arcom) and Ireland (Coimisiún na Meán), to support its supervisory and enforcement powers under the Digital Services Act (DSA). These arrangements aim […]Emmanuel Macron: Can a French alone rejuvenate the EU-China relations?
April 10, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Last week the trilateral meeting in Beijing between China’s President Xi, French President Macron and the President of the European Commission Von der Leyen was a much anticipated and needed sign of renaissance in the relations of the EU and China, two of the world’s largest economies. It is positive to see that finally sanity […]Disillusioned young people – France thinks it has a solution
June 25, 2019 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Johnny Wood, Senior Writer, Formative Content France is trialling a new national service programme for 15 and 16-year-olds, twenty years after the country phased out conscription for men. Called the “service national universel” (SNU), the scheme was proposed by […]The ECB must extend its money stimulus beyond 2018: Draghi reckoning
April 30, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Last Thursday, 26 April Mario Draghi, tactfully left it to be understood that Eurozone may not any more grow so fast as we all knew it was doing until recently, and, consequently, the inflation goal of close to 2% may not be achievable. He communicated that by not repeating what he had said on 8 […]Germany resists Macron’s plan for closer and more cohesive Eurozone; Paris and Berlin at odds
April 23, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Last week, surprising everybody, Francois Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Bank of France and member of European Central Bank’s Governing Council said that the decision to stop ECB’s extraordinarily accommodating monetary measures this year, is premature. So, according to him, the central bank must continue applying its extra relaxed measures well beyond this year. […]
