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Brussels warns on accounts rules
The European Commission has warned that it will be months before it decides whether to support a radical overhaul of accounting rules on how banks and other financial institutions value their assets
Contest starts for plum EU posts
The race to secure senior jobs in the next European Commission has intensified with the big member states keen to secure the most important economic dossiers
Barroso still seen as ‘number one’ in Brussels
Herman Van Rompuy and Baroness Ashton may have won the contest to determine the EU’s first full-time president and foreign affairs chief, but the real winner may have been the Commission president
Trichet warns on bank bonuses
Jean-Claude Trichet, ECB president, has issued his strongest warning yet that banks must keep pay and bonuses ‘contained’ and prepare for withdrawal of emergency support
Van Rompuy takes EU presidency
Herman Van Rompuy and Baroness Ashton were welcomed by world leaders as Europe’s first full-time president and foreign policy chief, even as a chorus of critics questioned their relatively low profiles
Supremacy of the nation state wins out
Choice of two relative unknowns for the roles of EU president and foreign policy supremo dismayed those who wanted to give Europe more clout on the world stage
Fishermen urge EU to end dumping
Scottish fishermen are offering to change the way they fish to persuade the European Union to relax rules that require them to throw large amounts of high-quality fish back in the sea if their catchincludes species not allowed under quotas
Van Rompuy against Turkey membership
Herman Van Rompuy, the Belgian prime minister and frontrunner to be the EUs first full-time president, is a firm opponent of Turkey’s EU membership bid, according to a speech he made in 2004
Berlin forces up Emirates’ business fares
Berlin has forced Emirates to raise the prices of business class tickets on flights out Germany as concerns about the Middle East’s largest airline grow as it expands into continental Europe
The EU presidency: News and analysis
European Union leaders awarded two of its highest-level jobs to newcomers on the international stage, marking the culmination of a decade-long modernisation effort
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Modesty would become Europe’s new duo
Europe needs less bargaining and more sobriety as it prepares to choose the new leadership of the European Union, writes Jacques Delors
FT ranking of EU finance ministers
In a year when finance ministers have had to throw away their usual scripts and improvise on policy, who has come out top of the FT’s ranking? Our interactive guide shows how each of the European finance ministers was ranked politically, on economic criteria, on credibility and overall
A Franco-German marriage of convenience
The need for France and Germany to pull together is ever more obvious to an increasing number of people in both countries, writes Wolfgang Münchau
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