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EIOPA reports about its 2018 supervisory activities and sets out the 2019 priorities

​In 2018, supervisory activities contributed to high-quality supervision, to enhanced convergence of supervisory practices and to stability in the European insurance sector EIOPA made use of different available tools to build common benchmarks for supervisory practices, to review national practices and to make its own independent assessment Among other deliverables important milestones were: The issuance […]

European Immunization Week 2019: statement by Executive Director Guido Rasi

Vaccine-preventable diseases are making a comeback in Europe. Let’s take the example of measles, a potentially deadly disease. From July 2017 to June 2018 alone, more than 13,000 cases of measles were reported across 29 countries of the European Economic Area. Among these, 30% were children younger than five years old. Measles is a highly […]

‘New IRA’ blamed for fatal shooting of journalist Lyra McKee in Northern Ireland

Police in Northern Ireland blamed the fatal shooting of a young journalist during rioting Thursday night in the city of Londonderry on the “New IRA,” a dissident paramilitary group that rejects the Good Friday peace agreement between the British and Irish governments. It brought a political solution to long-running violence between Catholic and Protestant communities that claimed more […]

Consolidated financial statement of the Eurosystem as at 12 April 2019

In the week ending 12 April 2019 gold and gold receivables (asset item 1) remained unchanged. The net position of the Eurosystem in foreign currency (asset items 2 and 3 minus liability items 7, 8 and 9) increased by EUR 2.4 billion to EUR 286.6 billion. As a result of the Eurosystem’s open market operations and standing facilities, net lending to credit institutions (asset […]