IEU Euro & Finance Telegram 4 December 2018

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EUROGROUP: 

  • Eurogroup report to Leaders on EMU deepening +++ 
  • Eurogroup Statement on the Draft Budgetary Plans for 2019 +++ 
  • Remarks by Mário Centeno following the Eurogroup meeting ending 4 December 2018 +++ 
  • EU Commissioner Moscovici's introductory remarks at the Eurogroup press conference +++ 
  • Results of the Eurogroup on 3 and 4 December 2018 +++ 
  • "Il n'y aura pas de zone euro forte sans un budget de la zone euro" - Représentation permanente de la France auprès de l'Union européenne +++ 
  • S&D-Fraktionsvorsitzender Udo Bullmann zum Ergebnis der Eurogruppe +++ 
  • GUE/NGL / LINKE zur Eurozone: Reformen verkennen die Probleme +++ 
  • CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion: Die Parlamentsrechte bei der Reform des ESM bleiben gewahrt +++ 

ECOFIN COUNCIL

  • Main results of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council on 4 December 2018
  • Remarks by EU Commission Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis at the ECOFIN press conference
  • Highlights - Economic Dialogue with Vice-President Dombrovskis and Commissioner Moscovici - Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs

BANKING UNION

  • Banking Union: EU Council endorses package of measures to reduce risk
  • Completing the Banking Union: EU Commission welcomes political agreement to further reduce risks in the EU banking sector
  • Banking package: Parliament and Council reach an agreement
  • EVP/CSU zum Bankenpaket: Verhältnismäßigkeit und Risikoreduzierung
  • Banking package: S&Ds have pushed for stronger and more sustainable banking sector
  • Europa-SPD zur Einigung auf wichtigstes EU-Bankenregulierungspaket: "Risiken in der Finanzbranche reduziert"
  • Deutsche Kreditwirtschaft begrüßt die Einigung zum EU-Bankenpaket auf der Zielgraden

EBA

  • EBA publishes final Guidelines on the exemption from the fall back mechanism under the RTS on SCA and CSC
  • EBA announces timing for publication of 2018 EU-wide transparency exercise and Risk Assessment Report

BREXIT

  • UK Parliament: Chamber of Lords debates Financial Services (Implementation of Legislation) Bill

ECB

  • ECB: Euro area bank interest rate statistics: October 2018

EIOPA

  • EIOPA Q2 2018 Solo Insurance Statistics

IMF

  • IMF Speech by IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde at Eighth Henry A. Kissinger Lecture - Video

BIS

  • Cyber-resilience: range of practices report issued by the Basel Committee
  • Gross capital flows by banks, corporates and sovereigns

INDICATORS

  • OECD: OECD annual inflation picks up to 3.1% in October 2018
  • October 2018 compared with September 2018 - Industrial producer prices up by 0.8% in euro area - Up by 0.7% in EU28

EU COMMISSION REGISTER

  • DG ECFIN
    • COMMISSION DECISION relating to the waiving of the Union's rights under the mandatory proportionate prepayment clause of the EFSM Loan Facility Agreement between the Union and the Portuguese Republic
    • COMMISSION DECISION relating to the waiving of the Union's rights under the mandatory proportionate prepayment clause of the EFSM Loan Facility Agreement between the Union and the Portuguese Republic

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IEU Trade & Commerce Telegram 13 December 2018

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