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En octobre 2022, la Commission européenne a proposé un règlement en vue de garantir des paiements instantanés en euros abordables et sûrs, conformes aux règles en matière de sanctions et de criminalité financière. Ces nouvelles règles permettraient aux citoyens et aux entreprises de payer les mêmes frais pour les virements instantanés et les virements ordinaires. Un accord politique provisoire conclu entre le Parlement et le Conseil doit être soumis au vote lors de la session plénière de février ...

The original full study reviews transparency rules, guidance, systems and practices in EU NGO grant funding, and to what extent these ensure public transparency. The study also provides an overview of NGO management and decision-making culture, and good practice approaches to NGO regulation. The study makes recommendations to improve public transparency and NGO regulation at EU level, and at the same time improve dialogue between EU institutions and NGOs.

Cette étude a été préparée pour la commission du contrôle budgétaire. Elle évalue l’évolution récente de la transparence et de la responsabilité du financement des ONG par l’UE. La Commission a procédé à la migration de tous les programmes de financement vers un système unique et centralisé de gestion des subventions qui pourrait améliorer considérablement la transparence publique du financement octroyé sous forme de subventions. Néanmoins, la transparence publique reste généralement limitée. L’étude ...

L’étude intitulée «Possible Solutions for Missing Trader Intra-Community Fraud» (Solutions envisageables contre la fraude intracommunautaire à l’opérateur défaillant) a été réalisée pour le Parlement européen par le CSES (Centre for Strategy & Evaluation Services LLP).

AAG of the study identifies the fundamental rationale for a possible issuance of a digital euro: to preserve the role of public money in a digital economy. It outlines the policy options, trade-offs as well as design issues that its creation would raise. This document was provided by the Policy Department for Economic, Scientific and Quality of Life Policies at the request of the committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)

Payment systems are of vital importance for today's economies and are the core activity of central banks. To adapt to recent trends – including the decline in cash usage, the surge in online commerce and contactless forms of payment, and the creation of cryptocurrencies – central banks have, in recent years, explored the possibility of issuing digital currencies themselves. Proponents of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) note that, among other things, they can: alleviate the problem of concentration ...

In just over a decade, the payment industry has seen the launch of cryptocurrencies and their explosive growth, driven by progress in digital technology applications. However, owing to a range of factors, not least their significant volatility, cryptocurrencies have not been adopted on a massive scale, but instead are used largely for speculative purposes. Both national authorities and the private sector have attempted to tackle volatility. The private sector's answer was stablecoins, that is, cryptocurrencies ...

This Briefing forms part of an EPRS series which offers a synthesis of the pre-legislative state-of-play and advance consultation on a range of key European Commission priorities during the latter's five-year term in office. It seeks to summarise the state of affairs in the relevant policy field, examine how existing policy is working on the ground, and identify best practice and ideas for the future on the part of governmental organisations at all levels of European system of multilevel governance ...

This briefing provides a summary of ESMA’s Fast-Track Peer-Review (FTPR), published on 3 November 2020. ESMA carried out an assessment of the effectiveness of the supervisory response in the financial reporting area by BaFin and FREP in the context of Wirecard AG fraud case.

The euro is the second most important global currency after the US dollar. However, its international role has not increased since its inception in 1999. The private sector prefers using the US dollar rather than the euro because the financial market for US dollar-denominated assets is larger and deeper; network externalities and inertia also play a role. Increasing the attractiveness of the euro outside the euro area requires, among others, a proactive role for the European Central Bank and completing ...