Tag: European Commission
The EC Clears The New Spanish Amortization
The European Commission (EC) today gave its approval to the new Spanish regime anticipated amortization of assets acquired under finance leases, the conclusion can not be regarded as a form of state aid, which responds to the concerns of the shipping industry. The EC concluded that the new Spanish system of prepayment of the cost [...]
Greece delays its way out of recession through 2014
Greece postpones departure of the “deep recession” facing the country until 2014, when it is expected to register a slight increase of 0.6%, according to the macroeconomic published today by the European Commission (EC). Data managed by the EU executive on Greece, provisional, show that Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will fall 6% this year and [...]
The European Commission considers that Portugal will not need a second rescue
The European Commission considers that the current adjustment program and reform of Portugal “is sufficient” if the country applied to exactly the plan of the troika (EU, IMF and the ECB) may return to the markets in 2013 . The deputy head of mission to Portugal by the European Commission, Peter Weiss said in a [...]
The presidents of Airbus and Boeing criticized the European rate of C02
The presidents of Airbus, Tom Enders, and Boeing, Jim Albaugh, took today its participation at the annual meeting of the aviation industry in Geneva to criticize harshly the rate ETS, which will tax the airlines using the airspace of the European Union (EU) for their CO2 emissions. “The ETS does not make sense. Will cause [...]
Companies ask to the EC to act on alleged abuse of dominant position of Google
FairSearch platform, which brings together 17 companies from around the world for equality of conditions in the market for Web search, including Microsoft today urged the European Commission (EC) to take action against Google to consider abusing its dominant position in Europe. FairSearch told a press conference in Brussels that Google positioned its products in [...]
The gap in unemployment between EU countries reach the highest level of the decade
The European Commission (EC) warned today about the increase in the difference between the levels of unemployment in the Member States, which in January reached a high of 19 points (between 4% rate registered in Austria and 23.3% of Spain), the largest gap during the last decade. In its monthly report on employment for March [...]
