EUbusiness Week 611 top stories: Stoic Cypriots calm but slam Europe as banks reopen; EU aims to take bailout pressure off taxpayers; Japan, EU launch talks on free trade pact; Bulgaria seeks EU help for energy sector reform; Social crisis deepens as austerity bites: report; Children born outside marriage in Europe to 40pct
This Week’s Top Stories
1. Stoic Cypriots calm but slam Europe as banks reopen
2. EU aims to take bailout pressure off taxpayers
3. Japan, EU launch talks on free trade pact
4. Bulgaria seeks EU help for energy sector reform
5. Social crisis deepens as austerity bites: report
6. Children born outside marriage in Europe to 40pct
Publisher’s Note
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I wish you all the best over the Easter break.
Regards,
Nick Prag
Publisher, EUbusiness
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1. Stoic Cypriots calm but slam Europe as banks reopen
Patient Cypriots formed orderly queues and waited in the sun for their banks to reopen after nearly two cash-starved weeks, but many expressed anger at their European partners.
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Germany’s Schaeuble says Cypriot anger will pass
2. EU aims to take bailout pressure off taxpayers
The Cyprus debt rescue and its ‘bail-in’ provision to make large bank depositors pay part of the cost is largely in line with Commission plans to ensure taxpayers no longer carry the can when banks fail.
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3. Japan, EU launch talks on free trade pact
Japan and the EU launched talks on a free trade agreement Monday with a telephone summit between their leaders.
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4. Bulgaria seeks EU help for energy sector reform
Bulgaria has asked the Commission for expert help to reform its troubled energy sector as sanctions loom owing to lagging liberalisation of the country’s energy market.
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5. Social crisis deepens as austerity bites: report
The austerity policies adopted to remedy the debt crisis are taking an ever greater toll on jobs and households in some countries, with little hope of improvement in sight, the Commission said on Tuesday.
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6. Children born outside marriage in Europe to 40pct
The number of children born outside marriage in Europe has doubled over two decades to 40 per cent, with Estonia, Slovenia and France registering almost three out of every five births out of wedlock, EU data shows.
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Cyprus: as anger mounts over the economic “tragedy” in Cyprus, money transfers came under scrutiny on Wednesday and the president pressed a criminal probe into how the banks were brought to their knees.
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Bulgaria’s ex-farming minister charged with graft
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Zimbabwe: the EU has suspended an assets freeze and visa ban against most Zimbabwean firms and people on its sanctions list in reward for a “credible” March referendum, but President Mugabe and some others remain on its blacklist.
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Russia raids Human Rights Watch office amid EU concern
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Commission Watch
Budget: the EU needs another 11.2 billion euros in its 2013 budget to cover bills left unpaid from last year, says the Commission — a demand immediately shot down by Britain.
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Fourteen European states want stronger EU diplomatic service
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Parliament Watch
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This week, the Budgets Committee chair said the Commission proposal to settle only part of the EU’s EUR 16.2 bn debt rolled over from 2012 threatens the EU with insolvency later in 2013; and the Environment Committee revised plans to clean up the scrapping of old ships.
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EU diary
4 Apr, Governing Council meeting of the ECB
15-18 Apr, European Parliament plenary session
22-23 Apr, Agriculture and Fisheries Council
22-23 Apr, Foreign Affairs Council
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Other news on EUbusiness this week
Russia, Georgia peace talks constructive: mediators 28-Mar
EU unfreezes Polish road subsidies 27-Mar
Malta not comparable to Cyprus: central banker 27-Mar
Eurozone confidence slips in March after recent gains 27-Mar
Risk of poverty lower in Germany than in EU 27-Mar
Hands off our finance sector, Luxembourg warns 27-Mar
