How dirty Russian money taught Latvia to get serious on sanctions – POLITICO
Centralization across the EU may sound good on paper, but Laura Aus, deputy head of the Estonian Financial Intelligence Unit,...
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Ukraine wants to use EU money to grow its military-industrial complex – POLITICO
Kamyshin said his country's arms industry can produce about $20 billion worth of weapons. The Ukrainian government plans to issue...
Europe’s banks retreat from Moscow, with the ECB at their heels – POLITICO
But the slowness of the sale process had frustrated regulators on both sides of the Atlantic. Earlier this year, Acting...
Rethinking EU restrictive measures – POLITICO
Are there unintended consequences to European Union sanctions against Russia? While rocked initially by the restrictions, Russia’s economy has shown...
Focus harder to rival China’s vast global investment plan, Brussels is told – POLITICO
The next round of investments — set to be decided later this year — should focus on so-called geographic “corridors”...
Make the single market ‘sexy,’ Italy’s ex-PM urges EU leaders – POLITICO
“The true step today,” he continued, “is to move from the capital markets union as it was before to an...
Greek opposition seizes on EU funds fraud allegations – POLITICO
“The government, even in conditions of crisis such as the pandemic … has always acted taking into account the protection...
Does the EU have what it takes to fight China on green tech? – POLITICO
“First off, the FSR targets only individual companies. After one company withdraws, another might just compete in the next tender....
Euro plunges, eyes parity with dollar after Lagarde’s go-it-alone pledge – POLITICO
If by U.S. election time in November the ECB has cut rates three times, and the Fed hasn't at all,...
Fraud-busters swoop on Greek contracts involving €2.5B of EU recovery funds – POLITICO
Alleged bid-rigging The complaint by European Dynamics was transferred to OLAF, which sent it to the EPPO for investigation for...
