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As a system for standardised payment instructions and messaging services, SWIFT has become the basis for most global financial transactions. On 2 March 2022, the Council decided to cut seven Russian banks from the SWIFT network, as part of a wider sanctions package, including sanctions against Russia's central bank.

In March 2018, the European Commission adopted a proposal for a directive on credit servicers and credit purchasers as part of its overall strategy to tackle high volumes of non-performing loans (NPLs) accumulated on EU banks’ balance sheets. The proposal aims to foster the development of secondary markets for NPLs by removing undue obstacles to credit servicing and to the transfer of bank loans to third parties across the EU. The European Parliament is expected to vote during the October II plenary ...

W lipcu 2020 r. Komisja Europejska przyjęła pakiet ustawodawczy dotyczący ożywienia rynków kapitałowych w ramach ogólnej strategii przeciwdziałania gospodarczym skutkom pandemii koronawirusa. Pakiet obejmuje ukierunkowane zmiany rozporządzenia w sprawie prospektu emisyjnego i dyrektywy w sprawie rynków instrumentów finansowych II (MiFID II), mające na celu zmniejszenie obciążeń administracyjnych, z jakimi borykają się doświadczeni inwestorzy w relacjach między przedsiębiorstwami, oraz zwiększenie ...

This EPRS publication seeks to provide an analytical overview of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) between the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK), which was agreed between the two parties on 24 December and signed by them on 30 December 2020, and has been provisionally applied since 1 January 2021. The European Parliament is currently considering the Agreement with a view to voting on giving its consent to conclusion by the Council on behalf of the Union. The paper analyses many ...

Slowbalisation – understood as the slowdown in global integration – is said to have started in the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2007-2008. The coronavirus pandemic brought about a further dramatic fall in cross-border movement of goods, services, capital and people, to the extent that commentators have proclaimed the beginning of deglobalisation. This paper examines whether the phenomenon described as slowbalisation is myth or reality, by looking at five different pathways of globalisation ...

This Briefing concerns a portfolio change in the European Commission in mid-mandate and takes the same format and approach as those Briefings published in September 2019 to give Members of the European Parliament an overview of major issues of interest in the context of the Hearings of the Commissioners-designate.

The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union specifies the maintenance of price stability in the euro area as the primary objective of EU single monetary policy. Subject to that, it should also contribute to the achievement of the Union's objectives, which include 'full employment' and 'balanced economic growth'. Responsibility for the conduct of monetary policy is attributed to the Eurosystem, which carries out its tasks through a set of standard instruments referred to as the 'operational ...

The idea of issuing joint debt instruments, in particular between euro-area countries, is far from new. It has long been linked in various ways to the Union's financial integration process and in particular to the implementation of economic and monetary union. In the first decade of the euro, the rationale for creating joint bonds was to reduce market fragmentation and thus obtain efficiency gains. Following the financial and sovereign debt crises, further reasons included managing the crises and ...

Sprawozdanie Parlamentu Europejskiego z własnej inicjatywy w sprawie unii bankowej w 2019 r. ma zostać poddane pod głosowanie podczas pierwszej marcowej sesji plenarnej. Odnosi się ono do pojawiających się wyzwań i rzeczywistego ryzyka dla europejskiego sektora bankowego: podkreśla się w nim rolę tego sektora w finansowaniu gospodarki realnej, a także porusza kwestie ostrożnościowe oraz zasady restrukturyzacji i uporządkowanej likwidacji. W sprawozdaniu ponownie stwierdza się potrzebę ukończenia ...

State aid can be defined as an advantage given by a government that may provide a company with an unfair competitive edge over its commercial rivals. State aid can take several forms, such as public subsidies, tax relief, or the purchasing of goods and services on preferential terms. While the European Union (EU) competition rules consider State aid to be incompatible with the internal market, they allow such aid when it promotes general economic development, for example, when tackling the challenges ...