Go to the Content Friday, 10 February 2012
Your search for "Directorate-General For Economic And Financial Affairs" produced 25 items.
| 1. Ministers to discuss budget surveillance plan | January 22, 2012 |
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Finance ministers to debate enhanced budgetary surveillance proposal. National finance ministers are to hold their first discussion on the latest set of economic governance... | |
| 2. Commission appoints DG Ecfin deputy director-general | April 5, 2011 |
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Maarten Verwey moves from Dutch finance ministry to the Commission. The European Commission has today appointed Maarten Verwey,
director of foreign financial relations at... | |
| 3. Rubbing out the red lines | March 17, 2011 |
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Member states have long resisted handing over more power to the EU, but economic imperatives are forcing them into a major U-turn. Europe is witnessing yet another... | |
| 4. Ministers say bail-out fund is sufficient | December 7, 2010 |
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Juncker: aid fund large enough for the time being Eurozone finance ministers on Monday evening sought to calm fears that the amount of available money in the EU's aid fund... | |
| 5. Wasting a good crisis? | November 4, 2010 |
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Whether in South Korea or in Brussels, negotiations on financial regulation have been going the wrong way. It has not been a good two weeks for international financial... |
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| 6. Support for EU vetting of national budget plans | September 9, 2010 |
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Member states will submit budgets for review in April. Finance ministers agreed at their meeting on Tuesday (7 September) that, from the start of next year, they will submit... |
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| 7. Commission creates two new deputy director-general posts | July 22, 2010 |
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More staff assigned to deal with financial crisis, while enterprise and industry department is restructured. The European Commission has created two new posts at the rank of... |
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| 8. Greece's austerity plan endorsed | February 3, 2010 |
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European Commission rejects talk of a bail-out and takes Athens to task for poor statistics. The European Commission today gave its backing to budget-cutting measures that... |
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| 9. Flexibility now and sustainability in the long term | February 19, 2009 |
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The Stability and Growth Pact is not a straitjacket, but applied correctly, it is an asset. In these difficult and uncertain economic times, the Stability and Growth Pact... | |
| 10. Eurozone 'needs' more say in global economy | April 15, 2008 |
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Commissioner believes eurozone should bolster its role in efforts to stabilise the global economy.
The eurozone must expand its influence on the world stage to help bring... | |
| 11. Strauss-Kahn to close IMF's Brussels office | February 28, 2008 |
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former finance minister of France who was recently appointed managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), is planning to close the... | |
| 12. Driving headlong into an agequake zone | June 21, 2007 |
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The EU economy is beginning to look almost normal, or at least large parts of it are. According to the European Commission's spring economic forecasts, by 2008 the Union will... | |
| 13. Almunia plots voice for euro | April 20, 2006 |
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Weak representation of the eurozone in international fora has once again become the topic of discussion at the European Commission ahead of meetings of the International... | |
| 14. Time has come for stability pact overhaul, declare policy pundits | December 18, 2003 |
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THE Stability and Growth Pact may have lost pretty much all credibility since eurozone finance ministers refused last month to sanction France and Germany for blatantly... | |
| 15. Revised draft allows 12 eurozone states greater economic latitude | May 28, 2003 |
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The TWELVE eurozone states will be granted more powers over the coordination of their economic and monetary policy, under the revised draft constitution unveiled yesterday.... | |
| 16. Public debt could threaten EU growth, warns head of financial committee | July 11, 2002 |
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EUROPE has all the prerequisites for economic growth, as long as its situation is not upset by excessive public debt, according to Finnish Under Secretary of State Johnny... | |
| 17. Enlargement hailed by Austrian president | December 6, 2001 |
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DER STANDARD reports comments by Austrian President Thomas Klestil hailing enlargement of the EU as the most important project on the continent since 1945: "We Austrians... | |
| 18. Small firms demand EIB pledge | June 29, 2000 |
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EUROPE'S small and medium-sized enterprises and the European Commission are insisting the European Investment Bank must make a formal commitment to continue SME programmes... | |
| 19. EU on verge of economic 'virtuous circle' | April 13, 2000 |
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THE EU is on the brink of achieving the full employment, high growth, knowledge-based but socially cohesive economy envisioned by Union leaders at last month's Lisbon summit,... | |
| 20. Calm crusader | March 9, 2000 |
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First came the Battle for Brussels. When Fabio Colasanti, who took over as director-general of the European Commission's enterprise department at the start of this year,... | |
