Troika consultancies: A multi-million euro business beyond scrutiny
A small club of big consultancies has a monopoly on servicing EU bailouts, posing questions on transparency and conflict of interest.
Refugee quotas 'unacceptable' for Visegrad states
Czech, Polish, Hungarian, and Slovak leaders have again said No to EU migrant quotas, despite French and German appeals for solidarity.
New EU proposal to relocate 160,000 asylum seekers
The EU commission is to unveil plans next week to redistribute 160,000 asylum seekers arriving in Greece, Italy, and Hungary, according to media reports.
News in Brief
- UN climate chief: No such thing as ideal pace for pre-Paris talks
- UK to accept 'thousands more' Syrian refugees
- Talks next week to soothe Northern Ireland tension
- Putin wants new 'coalition to fight terrorism'
- Lithuanian President: We must show solidarity on migration
- ECB signals plan to buy more bonds
- Report: Bulgaria and Hungary turn to Israel for fence technology
- EU to start destroying Mediterranean smugglers' boats
Slovenia: Bank tests treated as military secret
Slovenia is paying consultancies over €21 million to test its banks in controversial contracts classed as military secrets.
Deutsche Bank convicted in Italy in widening scandal
An Italian judge has convicted Deutsche Bank of fraud, amid widening probes on tax evasion and rate-fixing.
Interview
France and Germany moving towards closer political union
"You will be surprised in the autumn by the degree of movement that will have taken place in some member states," says Thomas Wieser, one of the economists preparing plans for banking union ahead of the October EU summit.
The European Central Bank: a hamstrung firefighter
The European Central Bank is an important firefighter in the euro-crisis. But increasingly divergent eurozone economies are limiting the effects of its policies and democratic scrutiny remains an issue.
The euro bailout fund: A democratic 'black box'?
Concern over democratic oversight of the EU's bailout funds has led to six constitutional complaints in Germany and outrage in the European Parliament.
Big banks: From Greek bailout to Hamlet's castle
A lobby for the world's biggest banks - the International Institute of Finance - became a key EU player when it negotiated the debt cut on Greece's second bailout. Its world of rented castles and sopranos shows losses were bearable.
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MEPs' Highlights
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