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The US debt-ceiling debate may yet worsen, but one should not overlook what politicians can actually accomplish. These days, the United States media are full of ordinary...

Internal report highlights lack of controls over spending. The European Parliament has decided to release a confidential report detailing the abuse of Parliamentary...

The leadership of the European Parliament is seeking to increase by 8.6% the allowance that MEPs are paid to employ office assistants. The increase is more than double the...

Employment ministers set to agree draft legislation. Self-employed workers and their spouses would get more generous maternity leave allowance and social security benefits...

The EU is playing a double game in Latvia. Your article “Sinking deeper into depression” (2-8 July) shows the clear impact that the support agreement reached by the...

A battle that require an 'Americanisation' of Europe in political terms and a 'Europeanisation' of America in social terms. Since the arrival of President Barack Obama...

Moving around the EU without losing your social security benefits could become easier. Ministers are expected next week (8 June) to discuss legislation that would make it...

Despite being encouraged to be more mobile, researchers are still unable to bring their pensions along. It is has long been an objective of the EU's innovation policy to...

MEPs' assistants have no health and security cover. Survey finds huge gaps in assistants' income. Few are registered with a pension scheme. One in ten MEPs' assistants has...

"In the long run, we're all dead", the late British economist John Maynard Keynes famously remarked. The good news for us as individuals is that the long run is...

The leaders of the European Union have decided to shift the debate in the press, about a split over the nature and future of the EU, to the meeting room. They will debate the...

Greece could be ordered next week to demand repayment of €194 million of illegal state aid which it gave to its flagship airline Olympic Airways. The European Court of...

Two MEPs spell out their vision for welfare reform in the enlarged EU's ageing society Europe must help new member states to raise their social standards and do away with...

Despite much talk of the importance of overhauling Europe's labour markets during the past few years, serious action is still “rare”, according to a study on labour...

Members of the European Parliament should be asked to sign up to a professional code of ethics, promising that they will handle their various allowances correctly,...

Now that they have joined, the new countries are part of the Lisbon Agenda too. The report from a group of advisors chaired by Wim Kok, issued earlier this month as an...

MOVES to curb the ability of workers from new member states to take advantage of their EU citizenship and seek jobs in another country of the Union were this week branded...

EUROPE'S pensions and social security systems urgently need reforming but are not “sick”, says a former German minister. Horst Günther, Germany's ex-labour and...

SPAIN has been urged to work towards a more socially conscious Europe when it takes over the EU presidency next month. Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgium's pensions and social...

Dave Deruytter of Bank Brussels Lambert (BBL) focuses on retirement planning issues In the case of expatriates who move from country to country frequently, there are complex...