13 Jun
Member News

Cushman & Wakfield | What Occupiers Want: Global Survey Results 2023

Highlights from this year’s What Occupiers Want report include perspectives on workplace design, global talent recruitment, flexible work and changes to real estate portfolios. Since 2015, Cushman & Wakefield has been taking the pulse of CRE leaders around the world to understand What Occupiers Want. In our annual survey—conducted in partnership with CoreNet Global External Link—we ask about trends in office location and workplace, perspectives on changes to portfolios, and strategies around policies, procedures and decision-making. Over the past five...

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13 Jun
Chapter News

European Medicines Agency: EU Council agrees approach on a more modern and simplified fee structure

EU health ministers have set out the Council’s position on a regulation to modernise and simplify the structure of the fees payable to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to better reflect the evolving demands and challenges it faces. The general approach approved today will enable the Council to start negotiations with the European Parliament. The European Medicines Agency and national competent authorities play vital roles in protecting and promoting public and animal health. Today EU health ministers endorsed an approach...

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12 Jun
Chapter News, Trade & TTIP Related

EU extends trade benefits for Ukraine

The suspension of import duties, quotas and trade defence measures on Ukrainian exports to the European Union – known as the Autonomous Trade Measures (ATMs) – are in place for another year. This strong testament to the EU's unwavering support for Ukraine will help alleviate the difficult situation faced by Ukrainian producers and exporters because of Russia's unprovoked and unjustified military aggression. The EU is phasing out by 15 September 2023 the exceptional and temporary preventive measures adopted on 2...

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12 Jun
Chapter News

Migration policy: EU Council reaches agreement on key asylum and migration laws

The Council today took a decisive step towards a modernisation of the EU’s rulebook for asylum and migration. It agreed on a negotiating position on the asylum procedure regulation and on the asylum and migration management regulation. This position will form the basis of negotiations by the Council presidency with the European Parliament. No member state can deal with the challenges of migration alone. Frontline countries need our solidarity. And all member states must be able to rely on the...

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12 Jun
Member News

EXEO Attorneys | Immigration U.S. & Canada, June 2023

The monthly newsletter gives you an overview of recent notable changes in Canadian and American immigration. Here is an overview of the most recent news as of June 9, 2023. CANADA Immigration as a continued Headline The Quebec Prime Minister, François Legault, announced new criteria requiring a minimum level of French for economic immigrants applying into the province’s upcoming programs. The goal of the government being to have all economic immigrants speak French by 2026. The province is also seeking to protect...

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09 Jun
Chapter News

ECB Speech | Luis de Guindos: EU banking package

Contribution by Luis de Guindos, Vice-President of the ECB, at Seminar on the Capital Requirements Regulation and Directive (CRR/CRD) | Madrid, 9 June 2023 | CRR3/CRD6: key last step to fully leverage on the lessons learned from the global financial crisis It is a great pleasure to take part in this seminar about the outstanding Basel III reforms in Europe. These rules have been developed and agreed upon at international level by central banks and bank supervisors, in response to the lessons...

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09 Jun
Member News

Vulcan Insight | EU and WHO partner to launch digital initiative for global health security

On 5 June, a significant collaboration in the field of digital health was unveiled by the European Commission and the World Health Organization (WHO). In June of 2023, the WHO will adopt the EU’s digital COVID-19 certification to form a global system. This global system aims to facilitate international travel and safeguard individuals worldwide from existing and future health risks. It serves as the initial step towards the development of the WHO Global Digital Health Certification Network (GDHCN), which will create a diverse range of digital...

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08 Jun
Member News

Mason Hayes & Curran | Will MiCA Bring an End to Europe’s “Crypto Winter”?

It has been a turbulent 12 months for the global crypto industry. Clouds first gathered with the collapse of stablecoin Terra and its sister token Luna in May 2022. This was swiftly followed by the bankruptcies of crypto lender Celsius Network and hedge fund Three Arrows Capital. The period of turmoil culminated with the dramatic collapse of crypto giant FTX in November 2022. Recently, the unrest in the American crypto market triggered a run on two central crypto bankers,...

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08 Jun
Chapter News

ECB | The economy and banks need nature to survive

Humanity needs nature to survive, and so do the economy and banks. The more species become extinct, the less diverse are the ecosystems on which we rely. This presents a growing financial risk that cannot be ignored, warns Frank Elderson, member of the Executive Board of the ECB and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the ECB. A thriving nature provides many benefits that sustain human well-being and the global economy. Think of fertile soils, pollination, timber, fishing stocks, clean...

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07 Jun
Chapter News

ECB | More jobs but fewer working hours

Unemployment has declined since the peak of the pandemic in August 2020, hitting a record low this April. But while more people have jobs, they are working fewer hours on average. In this post for The ECB Blog we shed light on this dichotomy and why it matters for the overall strength of the labour market. One could look at the euro area labour market and see a success story. After an initial drop at the beginning of the pandemic,...

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