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This document provides regularly updated information on EU Member States which have received financial assistance from the ESM, the EFSF, the EFSM, the EU balance of payments assistance facility, other Member States and/or the IMF. Since August 2018, all financial assistance programmes to EU Member States have been concluded; therefore, the document focuses on the implementation of the enhanced surveillance framework for Greece and post-programme reviews for Ireland, Portugal, Cyprus, Spain and Romania ...

This note provides a comparison of some key macroeconomic forecast indicators for the Euro Area as a whole published by the Commission, IMF, ECB and OECD.

El objetivo de los mecanismos de asistencia financiera europeos es proteger la estabilidad financiera de la Unión y de la zona del euro, pues las dificultades financieras en un Estado miembro pueden tener repercusiones significativas en la estabilidad macrofinanciera de otros Estados miembros. La asistencia financiera está vinculada a la condicionalidad macroeconómica (se trata de un crédito y no de una transferencia presupuestaria), a fin de garantizar que los Estados miembros receptores de la ayuda ...

This document gives an overview of the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive and State Aid rules applicable for recapitalisation of banks.

The crisis that hit the western financial markets in 2008 has led to a severe global economic recession, which impacted and is still impacting migrants and migration policies worldwide. Despite the growing vulnerability of migrants, remittances have remained stable during and after the global economic downturn. Indeed, they continue to be a significant source of income for families and play a crucial role of co-insurance or risk mitigation in times of hardship. Moreover, remittances have proven to ...

La presente nota trata de la propuesta de la Comisión de introducir condiciones macroeconómicas a gran escala en la política de cohesión. Principalmente, esto conllevaría la dependencia de los fondos de cohesión del respeto de las normas europeas en materia de gobernanza económica. Según la nota, dichas condiciones resultarían positivas para la gobernanza económica, pero es probable que tengan repercusiones negativas para la política de cohesión. Lo que es más importante, resulta dudoso que la propuesta ...

Since 1959, Member States have concluded over 1 500 Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) with recipient countries. Worldwide there are over 2 500 BITs between countries. The Lisbon Treaty has now transferred responsibility from MS to EU level.

This compilation of briefing papers was written by two members of the expert panel to the Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis. Its aim is to support the committee discussions on key questions arising from the crisis and thus feed into the preparations of the final report. The briefing papers take a look on the previous experiences of world monetary systems such as Bretton Woods and the current exchange rate misalignment as well as taking into account the influence of modern ...

Within the context of persisting international imbalances and a lingering crisis, there has been increased focus on the exchange rates between major economic areas, taking for example the heated debate between the US and China and unilateral action by numerous countries. It currently seems that a quantitative easing boom is back on the agenda globally. Inevitably, such policy actions will have effects on the global flows of capital and trade and have already attracted strong criticism from some emerging ...

A workshop on "The impact of the crisis on New Member States" was held in the European Parliament in Brussels on 1 March 2010. This document contains the programme, a summary of discussions, background papers and presentations of that workshop.