On 6 October 2020, the European Commission’s Directorate General for Structural Reform Support (DG REFORM) and the Council of Europe launched a new joint project on “Effective and uniform implementation of the sanctions’ regime in EU Member States” through an online kick-off meeting of its Project Advisory Group. The event was opened by Ms Nathalie…
Этот круглый стол соберет женщин, которые работают с борьбой с коррупцией, и создаст пространство будущего, которое будет способствовать исследованиям, обмену опытом и более глубокому пониманию влияния гендера на коррупцию и коррупции на гендер. Этот круглый стол соберет женщин, которые работают с борьбой с коррупцией, и создаст пространство будущего, которое будет способствовать исследованиям, обмену опытом и…
The Commission put forward a proposal for a new Council Recommendation on minimum income to help EU countries reduce poverty and promote reintegration in the labour market. With this proposal, the EU executive aims to reduce the number of people at risk of poverty or exclusion by 15 million and make sure that at least 78%…
Amid increasing inflation and a quickly tightening monetary policy, members of the European Parliament criticised the president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde, for the bank’s role in the fight against inflation, which some lawmakers called misguided and “behind the curve”. Lagarde, who has chaired the ECB since November 2019, joined the European…
The investigation led to the dismantling of the criminal network and the arrest of one suspect An operation, led by Hungary and supported by Europol and Eurojust, and involving law enforcement authorities in Austria, the Czech Republic and Poland has led to the dismantling of a criminal network involved in large-scale tax fraud concerning cigarette…
Is human trafficking a growing threat for our societies? According to the United Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the International Labour Office (ILO), there are currently nearly 25 million victims – women, men and children – of this trafficking worldwide for sexual exploitation and forced labour. Human trafficking is a gross violation of…
A climate risk stress test that the European Central Bank (ECB) conducted with more than 100 banks showed that most banks lack a climate risk stress-testing framework and do not include climate risk in their credit risk models, thus posing a risk to financial stability in Europe. Moreover, around two-thirds of banks’ income from non-financial…
Since interest rates increase as a reaction to high inflation figures, corporations might be incentivised to turn towards equity instead of debt to finance their investments. Overall, however, investments could stagnate due to the uncertain economic outlook. In June, year-on-year inflation reached an estimated 8.6%, according to figures from Eurostat, an increase is largely driven…
Central banks across Europe raised interest rates on Thursday (16 June), some by amounts that shocked markets, and hinted at even higher borrowing costs to come to tame soaring inflation that is eroding savings and squeezing corporate profits. Fuelled initially by soaring oil prices in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, inflation has broadened…
Croatia fulfils all economic criteria to join the euro area in January 2023 despite rising inflation, according to the EU Commission’s biannual convergence report, published on Wednesday (1 June) Of all the EU countries that do not use the euro, Croatia is currently the only one to fulfil all convergence criteria, the Commission stated in…
