This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. Uniform legal framework for crypto-assets markets in the EU Operations with crypto-assets will be traced in the same way as traditional money transfers Enhanced consumer protection and safeguards against market manipulation and financial crime Parliament endorsed the first EU rules to trace crypto-asset transfers, […]Crypto-assets: green light to new rules for tracing transfers in the EU
April 21, 2023 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. Uniform legal framework for crypto-assets markets in the EU Operations with crypto-assets will be traced in the same way as traditional money transfers Enhanced consumer protection and safeguards against market manipulation and financial crime Parliament endorsed the first EU rules to trace crypto-asset transfers, […]First green light given to the reform of EU asylum and migration management
March 29, 2023 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. The Civil Liberties Committee endorsed on Tuesday a new approach to manage asylum and migration flows into the EU and specific rules to tackle crises. With 47 votes in favour, 17 against, and 1 abstention, MEPs adopted their position on the proposed update of […]European Health Union: green light for two new COVID-19 therapeutics
November 12, 2021 by 1 Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Today, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has given a positive opinion on two COVID-19 treatments – Ronapreve and Regkirona – identified by the Commission as promising therapeutics under the EU Strategy on COVID-19 Therapeutics. Both are treatments for use during the early stages of […]EU-Vietnam free trade deal gets green light in trade committee
January 22, 2020 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. The Committee on International Trade backed the free trade and investment protection agreements between the EU and Vietnam on Tuesday. The committee gave its consent to the free trade agreement by 29 votes, six votes against and five abstentions and recommends that EP Plenary […]European Parliament gives green light to Christine Lagarde
September 19, 2019 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. Christine Lagarde obtained Parliament’s approval to be the ECB’s next President, in a plenary vote on Tuesday. In the secret vote, MEPs voted 394 in favour, 206 against and 49 abstentions to recommend Ms Lagarde to head up the European Central Bank. The European […]Facebook wins EU approval for WhatsApp acquisition; just a sign of the times
October 1, 2014 by Leave a Comment
After a few months of sleepless nights, Facebook founder and young billionaire Mark Zuckerberg can finally relax a bit. The world’s largest social network will likely receive approval by the European Union for its $19 billion purchase of mobile messaging startup WhatsApp, reports said. Citing two people “familiar with the matter” Reuters revealed on Thursday […]
