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01
Mar
A special welcome to EU Ambassador-Designate Stavros Lambrinidis, who begins his posting in Washington today. He most recently served as the EU Special Representative for Human Rights.
Stavros Lambrinidis is the Ambassador-Designate of the European Union to the United States, as of March 1, 2019.
From 2012 to February 2019, he served as the European Union Special Representative for Human Rights.
In 2011, he was Foreign Affairs Minister of Greece.
Between 2004 and 2011, he was elected Member of the European Parliament (MEP)...
28
Feb
EU financial markets are increasingly nervous, reflected in rising volatility, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) said today in its latest Trends, Risks, and Vulnerabilities (TRV) Report (No 1.2019).
Uncertainty related to Brexit, amid weakening growth prospects, global trade tensions, and reduced global monetary policy stimulus have contributed to market risk remaining very high.
The fourth quarter of 2018 saw increasing volatility on equity and sovereign bond markets, a decrease in equity prices, continued repricing on corporate and sovereign bond...
27
Feb
Produced by the Cabinet Office, HM Government
26 February 2019
Summary
The Government’s primary aim is to ensure that the UK leaves the EU on 29 March with a negotiated deal which will honour the result of the referendum. However, as a responsible government, it continues to plan for all eventualities, including one in which the UK leaves the EU without a deal. Guidance for businesses and citizens on how to prepare for a no deal scenario can be found on the Government’s Exit guidance website, www.gov.uk/EUExit.
Over...
27
Feb
The European Union is an Important Trade and Investment Partner for New York and is New York’s biggest source of foreign investment.
Check out more on the EU's trade in the U.S. with the interactive map HERE
Compliments of the Delegation of the EU in the US
27
Feb
Brussels, 27 February 2019
European Semester 2019: Winter Package explained. What does today's package include?
Today, the Commission publishes:
28 Country Reports, including in-depth reviews (IDRs) for 13 countries identified in the Alert Mechanism Report of November 2018
A Communication on the main findings of the Country Reports including a new categorisation of countries under the Macroeconomic
Imbalances Procedure (MIP)
An Opinion on the 2019 Draft Budgetary Plan (DBP) of Slovenia
The second Enhanced Surveillance Report for Greece
The Annual Work Programme...
26
Feb
Jeremy Corbyn, leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party, announced today that he was prepared to back a second referendum on Brexit. A People’s Vote would give Britons a chance to state their views with far greater knowledge than they had at the time of the 2016 referendum, but the question of what should be on the ballot would itself be highly divisive. Agreeing on the form a referendum should take would do nothing to calm Brexit tensions.
Compliments of The...
25
Feb
By NAHAL TOOSI
If British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt could offer some advice to Donald Trump — advice he knew the U.S. president would actually take — he’d tell him to take advantage of international alliances, because “America has a lot of friends all over the world that share American values.”
It’s advice that comes as Britain, on the verge of leaving the European Union, hopes to maintain the critical security and economic partnership it has long had with the United...
22
Feb
By Guy Verhofstadt
Since the end of the World War II, Western nations have shared the belief that international trade was a virtue. While progress has too often been lethargic, in the decades since, the United States and European nations have worked together to reduce barriers to trade.
This went hand in hand with a special bond between our two continents -- culturally, militarily, as a broad alliance of free nations.
Together, progress has been achieved in the form of the institutions...
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