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The Council adopted today, by qualified majority1, a directive aimed at creating a single market for mortgage credits in the EU, with a high degree of consumer protection ( 5318/14 + ADD 1 REV 1 + 25/13 ). The directive sets out to to create an efficient...

Africa‟s fundamental geopolitical shape is beginning to change with the “New Scramble for Africa” well underway by Western governments and corporations, on the one hand, and the governments and corporations of India and the People‟s Republic of China...

Contexte : BusinessEurope, la puissante organisation qui représente les employeurs, a invité en mai 2013 le président de la Commission européenne, José Manuel Barroso, à apporter un changement drastique à la politique énergétique de l’UE. Il souhaite...

Industry matters: absolutely. So let me start by commending Business Europe for holding this conference. It is a good sign of the mobilisation in the run-up to our March European Council, that will discuss the very themes – industry, energy – that you...

In the so-called “Ge-neva II” round of talks underway (in Montreux, Switzerland, not Geneva) during late January 2014, on the conflict in Syria, Syrian opposition chief Ahmed Jarba has kept demanding, in the name of the interna-tional community, the ouster...

The Global Risks 2014 report highlights how global risks are not only interconnected, but also have systemic impacts. To manage global risks effectively and build resilience to their impacts, better efforts are needed to understand, measure and foresee...