Saturday, April 16, 2016

We welcome policy actions being taken by a number of G20 members to support growth and stabilize markets. We reiterate our commitments to using all policy tools – monetary, fiscal and structural – individually and collectively to foster confidence and strengthen growth ...Joint Statement G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors

15/04/2016                                     Press Release

Communiqué: G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors MeetingWashington D.C.
April 14-15, 2016

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When one million refugees arrive on our shores, the only response is common and shared. No country can manage the task alone. No country can say it is not concerned. And, as we have seen time and again, unilateral action does not work, and it will never work..... President Jean-Claude Juncker

Washington, 15 April 2016                               European Commission - Speech

Speech by President Jean-Claude Juncker at the 2016 Spring Meetings of the IMF, World Bank flagship event on 'Forced Displacement: A Global Development Challenge'


Your Majesty, Secretary-General, President, Ministers, Dear friends,

The EBA highlights that efforts to provide asylum seekers with access to financial products and services are both important and necessary and should go hand in hand with proportionate and effective AML/CFT control...

EBA publishes Opinion on the application of customer due diligence measures to customers who are asylum seekers from higher-risk third countries or territories

Related documents:Opinion on Customer Due Diligence on Asylum Seekers

The debt burden is less of an issue than the question of whether Greece is capable of achieving a sustainable fiscal surplus or of implementing the structural reforms necessary for growth...President Weidmann Bundesbank

Bundesbank President Weidmann stresses central bank independence


Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann has stressed the independence of the European Central Bank (ECB) and its monetary policy. "It’s not unusual for politicians to have opinions on monetary policy, but we are independent," Weidmann told the Financial Times. 

Friday, April 15, 2016

Ενώ οι δαπάνες του δημοσίου παραμένουν στο απυρόβλητο, η κυβέρνηση επιβαρύνει για πολλοστή φορά με υψηλότερους φόρους τους συνεπείς φορολογουμένους και τις επιχειρήσεις που διανέμουν ακόμα μέρισμα. Έτσι, όμως, διαλύεται ο παραγωγικός και ο κοινωνικός ιστός, η οικονομία γίνεται δυσλειτουργική και δεν αποκλείεται να καταλήξει …όπως το συμπαθητικό τετράποδο του Χότζα! ....ΣΕΒ

Απόσπασμα από το Εβδομαδιαίο δελτίο για την Ελληνική οικονομία.....ΣΕΒ

Οι αντοχές των συνεπών εξαντλούνται…

First-Quarter 2016 Financial Results...Bank of America

                                                              Press Release

Bank of America Reports First-Quarter 2016 Financial Results