The European Commission (Commission) has published its work programme for 2025. The work programme consists of a communication discussing the Commission’s main plans and priorities and is accompanied by an Annex listing new initiatives and their expected timings, as well as initiatives the Commission intends to withdraw.
The communication emphasises that the
The European Commission (Commission) has published its Competitiveness Compass (Compass). The Compass is a policy document that describes the overall Commission policy on increasing the EU’s competitiveness over the coming five-year term. The Compass comes as a response to the reports published by Enrico Letta and Mario Draghi, which both warned
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Following a process that took nearly six months and started with the June 2024 European Parliament elections, the new European Commission (Commission) started its five-year term on 1 December 2024. The EU institutions have spent the previous month selecting, vetting, hearing, and voting on the new College of Commissioners, which consists of
On Tuesday 17 September, Commission Present-elect Ursula von der Leyen published her long-awaited list of European Commissioner-designates and the allocation of their portfolios. The presentation of the Commissioner-designates and their responsibilities is a key step in the transition to the 2024-2029 legislative term. The process for selecting candidate Commissioners has been complex so far, as
Introduction
Whistleblowing is on the rise – both within organisations and to authorities. An increase in whistleblowing is positive: it shows employees feel able to speak up, allows issues to be escalated, investigated and where necessary remediated. However, the increase in whistleblowing also presents challenges for companies to ensure that they are dealing effectively and
The European Parliament elections took place between 6 and 9 June 2024. While the results are still coming in, the provisional data indicates that even though the traditional parties have retained their majority in the hemicycle, the more radical groupings on the right have gained more ground. This is in line with opinion polling carried
On 15 May 2024, the Eurogroup issued a statement on the follow-up to the Eurogroup agreement on the future of the Capital Markets Union (CMU).
In March 2024, the Eurogroup agreed on a statement of the future of the CMU and today’s statement marks the first step towards its delivery. The endorsement by
From 22 to 25 April 2024, the European Parliament (Parliament) held is final plenary sessions before the Parliament elections taking place on 6-9 June 2024. During this session, the Parliament plenary adopted a large number of important financial services-related legislative proposals. This note provides an overview of these proposals, their main contents, as
On 16 November 2023, the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council reached a provisional political agreement on the review of the Regulation on Wholesale Energy Market Integrity and Transparency (REMIT). We discussed the scope of the review in our earlier blog. In accordance with an official statement, the co-legislators
On 16 November 2023, the European Central Bank (ECB) published the welcome remarks by Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB and Chair of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB), at the seventh annual conference of the ESRB. The remarks are entitled The ESRB’s first general warning one year on.
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