European Union bank loans to the private sector fell by 0.8% in November, on an annualized basis.
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Royal Bank of Scotland ( RBS - news - people ) and the European Union has ordered the bank to sell off assets in return for the government assistance it is receiving.
"The biggest risk for the current bull market is a policy mistake by the Fed, or the European Central Bank, or the Bank of Japan, or the European Union, and we got a good sneak preview of that with Cyprus, " said Burt White, chief investment officer at LPL Financial in Boston.
In addition, multilateral organizations such as the European Union, The World Bank, and European countries have also suspended general budget support to Malawi.
Milosevic's transfer to the Hague comes on the eve of an international conference of donors for Yugoslavia in Brussels, sponsored jointly by the European Union and the World Bank.
The logging companies, often working on projects that are financed for the most laudable of reasons by the European Union and the World Bank, build forest roads and send in their trucks.
Capital controls are to be imposed as Cyprus seeks to raise 5.8bn euros to qualify for a 10bn-euro bailout from the European Union, European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the so-called troika.
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As of last weekend, the second risk seemed to be defused, with the European Union and European Central Bank agreeing on a plan to reduce the Greek debt levels and provide new financing (though questions have since arisen as to whether this plan would be adequate).
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This week, the European Commission produced proposals that would align bank regulation in the European Union with changes in the Basle committee's rules.
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Drawing support from the European Commission, the Union for the Mediterranean, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the effort is intended to help fund pilot projects across the region that work towards the Mediterranean Solar Plan adopted in 2008.
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The European Central Bank meets Dec. 8, while European Union leaders meet on Dec. 9.
And not even the European Union nor the European Central Bank are going to make them stick to it.
Note that the European Central Bank rode to the rescue of the European Union periphery by printing tons of money and by purchasing the debt of the above named countries.
Among the key agreements from the 29 June summit were moves towards banking union with the European Central Bank (ECB) acting as a supervisor and allowing European bailout funds to buy bonds to try to reduce countries' borrowing costs.
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The only hope that such a fragile arrangement might last is if the external pressures from the markets, the European Union and the European Central Bank are enough to dissuade Mr Grillo or Mr Berlusconi from bringing the government down.
Marc Chandler, global head of currency strategy at Brown Brothers Harriman, said next week the International Monetary Fund, the European Union and the European Central Bank will visit Greece to evaluate the progress toward meeting the conditions to allow the next tranche of the 2010 aid program.
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Prices rebounded from a morning sell off following news the European Central Bank cut its economic growth forecast for the European Union.
Every bank in the European Union, down to the last Sparkasse, will have to comply with Basel 2.
According to confidential European Union documents, the conditions for bank-recapitalization loans would mostly be directed to specific institutions and the financial sector.
He said that by the European Union, and the European Central Bank taking these actions, it would provide some time to help the governments of Europe come up with a solution.
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Some countries maintain that the support of the UN will be critical in sorting out such problems and in securing help from other institutions, such as the World Bank and the European Union.
So the central bank of the European Union, and the International Monetary Fund, joined forces to kick the problem down the road by providing loans that would allow Greece to make its upcoming debt payments.
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Mobile phone use has skyrocketed in Africa, climbing from 9.2 million subscribers in 2000 to more than 648 million subscribers in 2011 -- more users than the U.S. or the European Union, according to the World Bank.
Barroso's comments come in support of Jean-Claude Trichet , the president of the European Central Bank, who raised the key interest rate for the Eurozone--the group of European Union member states which has adopted the euro-- to 3.5% on Thursday as his bank remains vigilant on inflation.
We were the first small jurisdiction to commit to the automatic exchange of information of bank accounts to the European Union.
The central bank for the 17 European Union countries that use the euro currency expects a gradual recovery in the eurozone's economy later this year.
Eurocrats say they first want all 27 members of the European Union to adopt the same procedures for bank resolution and deposit guarantees (with arrangements for cross-border co-operation).
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In overnight news, European Union finance officials have agreed on a deal that would create a single bank supervisor and EU banking union.
The IMF said that the international rescue effort, which also involves the European Union (EU) and the European Central Bank (ECB), would be "well paced".
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