The Member States discussed over the text on the banking union to be adopted by the Council of Finance Ministers on December 4th. It’s an issue that the Vice-President of the Parliament, Gianni Pittella, has followed closely. In an interview on the eve of the Commission’s vote, he shares his views with Presseurop.
In the fall of 2008, the collapse of the Icelandic banking system sent thousands of promising young Icelanders into unemployment. Today, Iceland’s Generation Y is turning to entrepreneurship to dig out from under the country’s financial crisis.
The store at 460-490 Oxford Street in the Park House building is Inditex’s 6000th outlet.
BARCELONA | By CaixaBank | Exports to countries outside the euro area rise by 14.5% year-on-year. Spain’s net debt position with the rest of the world falls to 93.7% of GDP.
The 2012 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the European Union. “The Union and its forerunners have for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe.”
Morgan Stanley explained that its “strategy advisers have highlighted Spain as one of the potential surprises in 2013, along other peripheral euro country members.”
Bulgarian anthropologist Ivaylo Dichev wonders: How is it that Western Europe is succumbing in its turn to the forces of separatism and disintegration that were at work in Eastern Europe in the 1990s? Need we search for the reason in the irresponsible policy of regionalism advocated by the EU?
MADRID | By Fernando Barciela | An interview with Afi CEO Ángel Bergés: “The International Monetary Fund estimates that the Spanish premium risk is up to 200 basis points higher than it should be merely due to euro zone problems.”
In 2011, 24% of the European Union population were at risk of poverty or social exclusion, corresponding to around 120 million people.
Lord Justice Leveson’s much-anticipated report into British press standards has been published and provided a damning indictment of media ethics. As a result of the scandal, which erupted over illegal interception of telephone calls, a host of journalists face criminal charges.