EU leaders will assemble on an emergency European Council May 23 to discuss measures to stimulate economic growth in the Union. This was revealed Tuesday byEuropean Council PresidentHerman Van Rompuy on his Twitter account. The announcement comes in the wake of a special statement byEuropean Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso calling for stepping up measures to create growth in the EU. In his address, Barroso recalled prior stimulus [...]
May 11, 2012 | Posted in
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The Heads of Delegation of the European People’s Party Group’s 10 Central and Eastern European Member States have sent an open letter to José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, over discrimination against Eastern Europe. The rightist Members of the European Parliament from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia have expressed their deep concern regarding “the numerous discriminatory actions carried out against [...]
April 30, 2012 | Posted in
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Bulgaria, the poorest EU member state, is said to feel cheated as the EU institutions are about to seal a new policy allowing six other member states, which are struggling financially, to be able to co-fund projects with much less money. “Countries which maintain a strict financial discipline should not be punished and those that [...]
December 6, 2011 | Posted in
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Following European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet has voiced sharp criticism of financial rating agencies. Thursday Trichet spoke about the existence of a “structure of international credit agencies similar to an oligopoly,” describing it as “highly undesirable.” What provoked the unusually sharp criticism was the Tuesday downgrading of Portugal‘s [...]
July 11, 2011 | Posted in
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