Banking: EU new anti-Russian sanctions

09.06.2026 Brussels. The European Union is going to propose a 21st package of sanctions against Russia ‌in response to Ukraine war, the event will take place tomorrow, and will target the bank and crypto networks to create a perspective of a banking crisis, and evoke Moscow’s interest to ⁠negotiate a peace deal in Ukraine’s favor….

Lugano: Ukraine Recovery Conference

Brussels 11.06.2022 The Ukraine Reform Conference scheduled to take place on 4 and 5 July has been renamed the Ukraine Recovery Conference to reflect the new focus of the gathering. The way to rebuild Ukraine is through a broad-based political and diplomatic process. Switzerland and Ukraine want to start this process in Lugano. Discussions will…

EU-Swiss agreement extended deadline

The European Commission agreed to grant  Switzerland six more months  to achieve progress in a dispute over a deal governing EU market access and  free movement of labor. The agreement negotiated between the European Commission and Switzerland is meant to provide a framework for bilateral cooperation including agricultural trade and aviation. The EU had expected…

EU-Swiss talks on ice

Prospects for a new treaty formalising ties between Switzerland and the European Union, its biggest trading partner, appeared bleak after four years of negotiations failed to produce a effect by the EU mid-October deadline. Switzerland and the EU fail to make headway in negotiations whose success is key to ensuring the smooth functioning of Zurich’s…

'New London' in Dublin refused

“There is not going to be any new London in the EU 27. History happened in a certain way. You can’t just lift institutions and drop then somewhere else,” Philip Lane, the head of the Irish  central bank  at an event in London. “You may well have this fragmented but integrated financial system so location…