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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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