* Please check against delivery * The Commission has decided that the eligibility rules of the International Skating Union – the ISU – are illegal under EU competition law. The ISU is the world governing body for ice skating – … read more
The European Commission has announced new emergency assistance of €15 million to help people in Ethiopia who are facing increasingly dangerous levels of food insecurity due to severe drought, bringing total EU humanitarian funding in 2017 to over €91 million. … read more
It is now for the European Council (Article 50) on 15 December 2017 to decide if sufficient progress has been made, allowing the negotiations to proceed to their second phase. The Commission’s assessment is based on a Joint Report agreed … read more
Prime Minister, Ladies and Gentlemen, This morning, Prime Minister May and I had a meeting to take stock of progress since we met on Monday. I will not hide that in between Monday and this morning we had a lot … read more
The Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision (GHOS), the oversight body of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, has endorsed a package of amendments to the Basel III framework, the internationally agreed prudential standards for banks, that aim to … read more