Reports Tagged: EU

January 27, 2016

UK Prime Minister David Cameron and Foreign Minister Philip Hammond have in the last couple of days publicly questioned whether a deal between the UK and the EU could be

January 26, 2016

News wires have been reporting for the past month or so on a war of words between European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi that only

January 12, 2016

The European Council will meet in Brussels on February 18 and 19 with the express aim of successfully concluding negotiations with the United Kingdom on legislative reforms to help keep

December 15, 2015

EU Heads of States will meet in Brussels on December 17 and 18 to discuss, among other topics, the extension of the financial and trade sanctions against Russia that are

November 19, 2015

French President Francois Hollande surprised his compatriots and even most of his own Socialist party when he requested the activation of Article 42.7 of the Treaty on the Functioning of

April 27, 2015

The single most important new development on Greece over the weekend was not in the bitterly harsh, acrimonious tone of the “discussions” at the Eurogroup meeting in Riga on Friday

April 02, 2015

In a report last Wednesday we warned that EU officials were quietly preparing for the possibility that Greece might be unable to meet its 450 million Euro debt obligation to

October 23, 2014

European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Jyrki Katainen sent a formal letter to the Italian government in response to its 2015 draft budget asking why it intends to deviate

October 17, 2014

With US economic growth indicators still holding in well despite a hiccup or two, we think there should be little question by now in anybody’s mind that a significant contributor

May 22, 2014

The results of the European Parliament voting that starts today and goes through the weekend will be closely scrutinized for evidence of the breadth and depth of disaffected, anti-establishment, and especially far-right

March 19, 2014

ECB Executive Board Member Yves Mersch warned last week that a failure by EU political leaders to reach an agreement on the long-debated bank backstop facilities – the SRM (Single

February 07, 2014

The German Federal Constitution Court this morning referred the challenge to the legality of the ECB’s OMT bond purchase program to the Court of Justice of the EU in Luxembourg

January 29, 2014

As we get deeper into 2014 markets are starting to focus again on the upcoming German Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) ruling on the challenge to the legality of the European