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Articles written from June-November 2017 during my time as EU Correspondent for Market News (MNI) - stories marked (£) are subscription-only but sign up for a free trial here.

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MNI: Hope For UK On Round 2 Brexit Talks, But Talk Money - EU

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MNI: UK's May Acknowledges "Some Way To Go" On Brexit Talks

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MNI INTERVIEW: U.S/Euro CCPs Needn't Worry Yet - Dombrovskis (£)

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MNI INTERVIEW: Brexit Impasse Is "Temporary" - EC Moscovici (£)

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MNI: French FinMin Says Macron's Reforms Welcomed At G20, IMF

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MNI EXCLUSIVE: IMF Words Welcome, Can Work Without-Greece Min (£)

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MNI: U.S, EC Agree Common Approach Certain Deriv Trade Venues (£)

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MNI: Complete Banking Union Seen By End-2018, EC Says

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MNI: EU Not Working On 'No Deal' Brexit Scenario- Tusk

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MNI: No Brexit Talks On Fin Settlement, So No Moves This Week (£)

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MNI: Dutch Cabinet Deal Submitted For Approval - Press

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MNI EXCLUSIVE: EU Amend Securitisations Self-Cert Headache (£)

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MNI: Spain, EU Cling Tight To 'Rule of Law' In Catalonia (£)

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MNI: Netherlands Close To Coalition Deal - Press (£)

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EU Commission Propose Single VAT Area To Beat Fraud

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MNI: Most Bids Unsuitable In EMA Brexit Relocation Assessment

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MNI EXCLUSIVE: MEPs Hope Brexit Progress Vote To Spur UK Govt (£)

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MNI: No Sufficient Brexit Progress Yet, EC Says At Parl Vote

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MNI EXCLUSIVE: Officials Seek More EU Action on Catalan Crisis (£)

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MNI: European Commission Breaks Catalonia Silence, Backs Rajoy (£)

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MNI: EU/UK Port Trade Growth Risks Severe Brexit Downturn (£)

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MNI: EMA Warns Of Poss "Public Health Crisis" After Relocation

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MNI EXCLUSIVE: Election Spanner In Cogs For French-German Deal 

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Germany Far-Right Gains Take Shine Off Merkel Win (£)

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MNI ANALYSIS: Merkel German Win Seems Clear, Coalition The Key (£)

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MNI: EU Side Want Substance From May Brexit Speech (£)

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MNI: EU Sends Firm Reminder Ahead Of May Brexit Speech

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MNI: Differing German Polls Add Some Uncertainty To FDP Share (£)

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MNI EXCLUSIVE: MEP Warns ESA Governance Plan May Fall In Parlt

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MNI: EC Moscovici Wants Non-Eurobond EU Safe Assets

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MNI: EC To Strengthen European Financial Supervisory Bodies (£)

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MNI INSIGHT: ECOFIN Impetus Grows On DigiTax Fix, Ireland A No (£)

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MNI EUROGROUP: French FinMin Says DigiTax Support Growing

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Eurogroup 'Not Worried' Less Greek Spending Leverage

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MNI EUROGROUP: EC Moscovici Reinterprets Juncker In Job Pitch (£)

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MNI BRUSSELS WATCH: Cz, Sw Closest Euro Joiners On Convergence

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MNI EUROFI: EC Wants 'More Integrated Supervisory Framework' (£)

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MNI BRUSSELS WATCH: Expert Urges Care On EU Inv'ment Screening (£)

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BRUSSELS WATCH: Commission Pres Juncker Calls For EZ FinMin (£)

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BRUSSELS WATCH: 'EFSI 2.0' Agreed In Principle; Extended 2020

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MNI EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: ETUC Sees EU Finance Ministry Need (£)

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MNI BRUSSELS WATCH: MEPs, Unions Call For EU Reform In SOTEU

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MNI BRUSSELS WATCH: Ministers Set For Cautious Debate on EMU

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European Union Finance Ministers Push For 'Web Tax' (£)

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NORWAY VOTE: Razor-Thin Gap Between Centre Left/Right - Polls (£)

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BREXIT: Davis To Say Vote Against Bill Is Vote For Cliff Edge

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MNI ANALYSIS: Eurozone FinMin, A Case Not Of If, But When (£)

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EU Says Up To UK To Come Up With Irish/NI Solutions

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MNI BRUSSELS WATCH: EC Takes Aim At E50bln X-Border VAT Fraud (£)

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Irish ForMin Warns Of "Extraordinarily Negative" Impact

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BRUSSELS WATCH: 2018 Budget Should Focus On Growth -EU Council (£)

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GERMANY VOTE: No Turkish Delight For SPD's Schulz - Press (£)

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BREXIT: UK Seeks To Reassure U.S. While Sides Trade Barbs

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BREXIT: EU Says 'No Decisive Progress', Divorce Bill Disputed

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EP Negotiator Says Sufficient Progress Unlikely By Oct

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EC Juncker "Not Satisfied" With UK Position Papers (£)

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BREXIT: EU, Better-Prepared UK Still At Odds in Talks

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BREXIT: UK Seeks Clarity On EU Privileges Ahead Of Talks 

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MNI ANALYSIS: Keep Calm And Vote Merkel Stance Winning For CDU (£)

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BRUSSELS WATCH: EC Cracks And Calls High Level Egg Meeting (£)

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New Round Of Dutch Coalition Talks Start, 5 Months Since Elex

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BREXIT: Last Round Talks 'Difficult But Productive' - UK Davis

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BRUSSELS WATCH: EC Defends 2-Month Travel Bill Of Near E500000 (£)

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BRUSSELS WATCH: "Decisive action paid off" EU Claims On GFC

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BREXIT: Top Judge, EU Unions Warn On Need For UK Law Clarity

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BREXIT: Ireland's Varadkar Fears 'No Extra Time' Available

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BREXIT WATCH (2): 8 Cities Bid For European Banking Authority (£)

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BREXIT WATCH: Eight Cities Bid For European Banking Authority (£)

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BRUSSELS WATCH: More Confidence In EU Future, Economy - Survey (£)

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BRUSSELS WATCH: Eurogroup To Look At ELSTAT Ex-Head Sentencing (£)

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23 Cities Bidding For EMA, EBA Post-Brexit - EU

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European Placed Securitisation Leapt 135% Q1 To Q2 2017 - AFME (£)

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UK Could Lose 40,000 Banking Jobs To EU - Report

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EBA Report Projects Assets To Grow 3.9% By 2019, Warns On NPLs (£)

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BRUSSELS WATCH: Luxembourg Launches EBA Bid As Deadline Nears (£)

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GERMANY VOTE: FDP Increasingly Likely Merkel Coalition Partner (£)

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BREXIT: Need For Interim Deal Broadly Accepted - UK Hammond

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BREXIT: Lack of EU Arrest Warrant Would Post Risk to UK (£)

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EU Warns of Brexit Talks Delay On Divorce Bill: Press

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UK Rudd Orders Independent Assessment of EU Migration

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Hoyer Named to 2nd Term has Head of European Investment Bank (£)

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BRUSSELS WATCH: America First Cannot Mean Europe Last: Juncker

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BRUSSELS WATCH: EU Gives Poland One Month On Legal Reforms (£)

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BREXIT: Migration, ECJ Acceptable In Transition Deal - UK Gove

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BREXIT: EU Commissioner Wants 50-50 Cuts-New Money To Plug Gap

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BREXIT: Need Progress Across Board, Euro Parl Group Says

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GREECE WATCH: EC Confident Greece Can Exit Progamme 2018 (£)

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BRUSSELS WATCH: Juncker Investment Plan Notches Up E225 Bln

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GREECE WATCH: Athens Entering 'New Phase': Moscovici (£)

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BRUSSELS WATCH: EU Watching Poland Crisis Carefully, Spox Says (£)

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GREECE WATCH: IMF 'In Principle' Backs Greek Bailout Programme

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EU Barbs UK For Lack Of Clarity On Fin Settlement Bill

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BRUSSELS WATCH: EU 'Very Close' To Article 7 Trigger On Poland (£)

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BREXIT: EU Wants to 'Punish' UK - Sceptic MEP; Talks Rumble On

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EU Nears Two Trade Deals With Latin America (£)

 

BRUSSELS WATCH: EU Positions Itself As Sustainable Finance Hub (£)

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BRUSSELS WATCH: Ageing Population May Derail EU Labour Growth (£)

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BRUSSELS WATCH: Second Round Of Brexit Talks Begin (£)

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G20: Macron Announces New France Climate Conference (£)

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G20: Believe Trump Accepted Denial Of Election Hacking - Putin (£)

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UK PM May 'Dismayed' At U.S. Position On Paris Accords (£)

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G20: U.S. Gets Fossil Fuel Sentence In Final Communique (£)

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G20: EU, Canada Agree CETA Provisional Application Date

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G20: Japan, China Committed To Korea Peninsula Denuclearizat'n (£)

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G20: Trump Expects 'Very Powerful' UK Trade Deal Soon (£)

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G20: Call To Complete Basel III, No Deadlines - EU Official (£)

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G20: Communique Done Except U.S. Climate Sentence - EU Source (£)

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G20: Japan, U.S., S.K Release Joint Statement, Condemn N Korea (£)

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G20: Lavrov Confirms Syria Deal, US Channel Set Up On Ukraine (£)

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G20: Trump, Putin Reach SW Syria Ceasefire Deal In Long Talks

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G20: Strengthen FATF, Solve Steel Multilaterally - Merkel (£)

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G20: Trump/Putin Meet; Russia Says Econ Fine Despite Sanctions

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G20 INTERVIEW: Brexit Won't Lead To Norway Solution -Norway PM (£)

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G20: Canada/EU Relationship "Stronger Than Ever" - ForMin

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G20: Merkel Kicks Off Official Meetings in Hamburg (£)

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G20: Hamburg Violence Flares, Overwhelmed Police Seek Backup (£)

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EU Tusk Slams G20 'Hypocrisy' On UN Smuggler Sanction Dissent (£)

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G20: Euro Papers Eye Trump-Putin Bilat Meet, Hamburg Protests (£)

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G20: Trump, Abe, Moon Urge China To 'Perform' On N.Korea Curbs (£)

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G20 PREVIEW: Leaders Await Tense Hamburg Meet, Trump's First (£)

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BRUSSELS WATCH: EU, Japan Hail 'Ambitious, Comprehensive' FTA (£)

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BRUSSELS WATCH: Political Agreement Reached on Japan FTA - EU (£)

 

BRUSSELS WATCH: EU Sets New Fraud Penalties, Max 4 Years Jail (£)

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BRUSSELS WATCH: EU Chides U.S. Climate, Protectionism Pre-G20 (£)

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BRUSSELS WATCH: EU Yes To MPS State Bailout, E28bln NPLs To Go (£)

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BRUSSELS WATCH: European Union Says Close to Japan Trade Deal (£)

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BREXIT: EU Shrugs As UK Departs London Fisheries Convention

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Russia Suspends 2017 Council of Europe Payment

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GERMANY VOTE: Same Sex Marriage Vote Passes German Parliament (£)

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BREXIT: EU Publishes New Position Papers on Law, Goods

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EU Leaders Present United Front Pre-G20, Take On Trump (£)

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BRUSSELS: EC Launches PEPP Plans, Seek Tax Competition (£)

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BRUSSELS WATCH: PEPP To Open Up 'Untapped Potential' - EC VP (£)

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BRUSSELS WATCH: PEPP Hopes To Push PPP Market Growth To E2.1Tn (£)

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BRUSSELS WATCH: EU Extends Russia Econ Sanctions Until Jan '18 (£)

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Brexit To Hit Budget Hard, Need Efficiency - EU

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MNI BRUSSELS WATCH: PEPPs Should Get Pref Tax Treatment - EC (£)

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BREXIT: Nomura Confirms Planning 'New Entity' In Frankfurt (£)

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BREXIT: 'More Ambition' Needed From UK On Citizen Rights Offer

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MNI INTERVIEW: Frankfurt EBA Bid Has Gov't Backing - FFM Offcl (£)

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EU Approves Italian Measures To Liquidate BPVI, Veneto Banca

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BRUSSELS WATCH: Muted EU Response To UK On Citizens (£)

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BRUSSELS WATCH: Relocation Decision On EU Agencies Nov

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BRUSSELS WATCH: EU Citizens In UK Can Stay Post-Brexit- PM May (£)

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MNI BRUSSELS WATCH: EU Hails Progress On Defence Cooperation (£)

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BRUSSELS WATCH: EU Future-Looking, But Needs Reforms - Macron (£)

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BRUSSELS WATCH: 'Good Idea' To Reverse Brexit - Tajani

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UK's May To Outline Brexit Citizen Rights Plan

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MNI INTERVIEW: EU Rapporteur Sees 3-Tiered Covered Bond Set Up (£)

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BRUSSELS WATCH: EC Calls For X-Border Tax Transparency

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MNI BRUSSELS WATCH: Anti-EU Sentiment On Wane - Council (£)

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BREXIT: Parallel Talks Possibly On Table From Oct - Barnier

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BRUSSELS WATCH: New EU Fiscal Board Advises Neutral Stance (£)

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BRUSSELS WATCH: EU Increases Funding For Growth, Migration (£)

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BREXIT WATCH: UK Agrees to EU-Planned Staged Negotiations (£)

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BREXIT: A Year On From Vote, UK-EU Negotiations Begin (£)

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BRUSSELS WATCH: EU Extends Crimea, Sevastopol Sanctions

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MNI BRUSSELS WATCH: EU To Force Cross-border Tax Disclosure (£)

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BREXIT: UK Sec Davis Wants 'Deal Like No Other in History' (£)

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ECOFIN Release Portugal, Croatia From Excess Deficit Procedure (£)

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BRUSSELS WATCH: EU Econ Council Approves Bail-in Hierarchy

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IMF: Euro Area Recovery Strong, Still Deep-Rooted Imbalances

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GREECE WATCH: Disbursement Approved, IMF On Board

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EU/UK Brexit Talks Confirmed To Start June 19: Downing St

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EU Officials Expect 'Substantial' Disbursement for Greece (£)

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BRUSSELS WATCH: UK Faces 'New Europe' If Returns (£)

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EU: Expect First Brexit Talks Before June 22 EUCO Meet (£)

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EU PEPP White Paper Scheduled For EC June 28 Meet

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LSEG: EC's Euro Clearing Location Policy Would Increase Risk (£)

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BRUSSELS WATCH: EC Looks To Oversee Euro Clearing

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BREXIT: EU Negotiator 'Impatiently Waiting' For UK (£)

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BRUSSELS WATCH: EC Say Sherpa Level Brexit Talks Underway

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EU's Tusk: "No Time To Lose" On Brexit Talks

 

EC: Ready For Brexit Talks Asap; No Speculation On Backtrack

 

BRUSSELS WATCH: PEPP Outline By End June, Covered Bonds Q1 '18 (£)

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EU: Voluntary Personal Pension Market Proposed By End-June

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French Labour Reforms To Be Pulled Together By End Summer: PM​ (£)

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A Fifth Of UK Business Members Eye Relocation Post-Brexit: IoD

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GERMANY VOTE: As Sept Vote Nears, Merkel CDU Hits 38% In Poll (£)

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FRANCE VOTE: Macron's REM Movement Set To Dominate Parliament

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