Brexit, migrations, national budgets, next year European elections and the threats of populist movements are the key issues which the last European Council has dealt with. Following the informal discussion in Salzburg, the European Council highlighted in Brussels the importance of further preventing illegal migration and of strengthening cooperation with countries of origin and transit, […]
“The aim of today’s Euro Summit was to assess the state of play of the EMU reform, and to keep up the momentum for change. We agreed that we need to accelerate the technical work. We want to get an agreement on the banking union and the ESM in December. I hope our discussion will […]
Italy is coming to a turning point of its economic policies and of the level of the international standing of its new so called yellow-green Government. The financial law will shade light on the many expectations of both the markets and the other governments about the country’s performance. This fact has much to do with […]
Any form of energy, which is acquired from natural sources that can constantly be replenished is regarded as a renewable energy. The most common types of renewable energy around the globe include solar energy (sunlight), bio-energy (organic matter), wind energy (wind currents), geothermal energy (heat from the earth), ocean energy (sea) and hydropower (moving water […]
Italy has raised the level of conflict with the EU. The “yellow-green” government in the founding member country seems to be ready for a tough clash with Brussels in order to implement the measures promised during the electoral campaign. After some misunderstanding related to migration policy –in that case part of a wider problem in […]
The draft budget law proposed by the Italian government is a declaration of war to the EU. After years and years of walking the wire, balancing between the promise to respect the rules on the deficit on the one hand and getting all the possible flexibility on the other, the Italian government has decided that […]
The Executive Agency for SMEs, the EASME, launched a new call for proposals aimed at strengthening the competitiveness and the sustainability of European companies. The call, which is particularly focused on SMEs, will support consortia promoting innovation-oriented public procurement with the scope to significantly increase the proportion of SMEs that have access to the public […]
The Italian government, currently run by the League and the Five Star Movement, recently announced its Economics and Finance Document, after days full of worries and harsh negotiations. When everything started, even though the Italian Minister of Economics Tria was particularly concerned about boosting public expenditure with a wider deficit in the Balance of Payments, […]
At the 2016 World Economic Forum edition, in Davos (Switzerland), the Italian Prime Minister Mr Matteo Renzi announced that Italy “should not be a European museum, but its future”. This meant that Italy was ready to further open its stock exchange markets to the world’s financial centres. He argued that Italian economy “deserves to become […]
On the 4th of October the Italian Government presented the update note to the so-called “Document on Economy and Finance” (DEF). It is usually published around the 10th of April but this year, because of the general elections, the former Government headed by Paolo Gentiloni of Partito Democratico didn’t show a “real” DEF but just […]
