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Italy's Renzi will face critical tests before year-end

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ITALY

This is a crucial step for the government before year-end, together with long-term banking issues and slowing economic recovery. The European Commission has allowed Italy…

Ukraine war unlikely to transform EU-UK security ties

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EU/UK

It has required a degree of EU-UK coordination, especially to facilitate the implementation of sanctions imposed on Russia’s economy, leadership and regime-supporting elite…

Pressure on EU banks is escalating and could intensify

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EURO-AREA

Either event could cause confidence in Europe's banks to plunge. The financial and sovereign debt 'double crisis' has dealt the European banking system a double blow from which…

Any further euro-area integration would be complex

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EURO-AREA

The 'five presidents' report', prepared with the presidents of the Eurogroup, ECB and European Council and Parliament, is the result of efforts to restart EU institutional reform…

Ethics could damage public trust in UK government

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UNITED KINGDOM

The UK government’s landslide election victory in 2019 has given Prime Minister Boris Johnson room to pursue an agenda for governance that targets institutions such as the Supreme…

The outlook for UK-EU relations is poor

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UK-EU

They are intended to set the framework for the future economic relationship between the United Kingdom and the EU. However, they have become a source of deep political division…

Migration controls will complicate Swiss-EU relations

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SWITZERLAND

Switzerland's popular vote on migration controls.

Enlargement may become EU priority once again

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EU

The report comes after statements by EU leaders that enlargement to the Western Balkans, Ukraine and Moldova has become a top priority. The war in Ukraine has reinvigorated the…

Brexit threatens future Irish-UK relations

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IRELAND/UK

The future of Irish-UK relations.

May will pursue ‘hard’ Brexit

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UNITED KINGDOM

This followed a landmark speech on January 17 in which she added more clarity and detail to her previous stance on the United Kingdom’s departure from the EU. May indicated a…