Composite cost-of-borrowing indicator for new loans to corporations and for new loans to households for house purchase broadly unchanged at 1.53% and at 1.36%, respectively Composite interest rate for new deposits with agreed maturity from corporations broadly unchanged at -0.17%, with interest rate for overnight deposits from corporations unchanged at 0.00% Composite interest rate for new deposits with agreed maturity from households broadly unchanged at 0.25%, […]

Cross-border videoconferencing and safer and easier document exchange: learn how new EU rules for digitalising justice will benefit people and firms.

Cash most popular instrument for in-person retail payments, but use gradually declining Card payments becoming increasingly contactless Survey suggests coronavirus pandemic has accelerated use of cashless payment methods

The European Union’s Article 7 procedures currently under way against Hungary and Poland should be upheld until issues around the rule of law in those countries are resolved, Didier Reynders, EU Commissioner for Justice, told the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice, and Home Affairs (LIBE), in Brussels.

In the week ending 27 November 2020 the net position of the Eurosystem in foreign currency (asset items 2 and 3 minus liability items 7, 8 and 9) decreased by EUR 0.1 billion to EUR 304.5 billion.

EMA has received an application for conditional marketing authorisation (CMA) for BNT162b2, a COVID‑19 mRNA vaccine developed by BioNTech and Pfizer. The assessment of BNT162b2 will proceed under an accelerated timeline. An opinion on the marketing authorisation could be issued within weeks, depending on whether the data submitted are sufficiently robust and complete to show […]

EMA has received an application for conditional marketing authorisation (CMA) for a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine by Moderna Biotech Spain, S.L. (a subsidiary of Moderna, Inc.). The assessment of the vaccine known as Moderna Covid-19 vaccine (also referred to as mRNA1273) will proceed under an accelerated timeline. An opinion on the marketing authorisation could be issued within weeks, […]

Dolphins are among the unintended casualties of fishing in Europe’s waters.

In the context of EIB Group’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the EIB will unlock part of Hypo Vorarlberg’s regulatory capital The Austrian bank will use its increased capacity to support fresh lending to energy efficiency projects in line with the EIB’s commitments to increase its climate action lending The EIB Group transaction benefits from […]

Heatwaves in the world’s oceans have become over 20 times more frequent due to human influence. This is what researchers from the Oeschger Centre for Climate Research at the University of Bern are now able to prove. Marine heatwaves destroy ecosystems and damage fisheries.