The rules will reflect new ways in which Europeans enjoy culture and entertainment services online when they travel around the EU. uropeans will soon be able to fully use their online subscriptions to films, sports events, e-books, video games or music services when traveling within the EU, according to the agreement
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Capital Markets Union: Crowdfunding, FinTech and Sustainability
Essentials of EU law
Systematic country diagnostic: Montenegro
Montenegro Economy ontenegro is a small and open upper middle-income transition economy that gained independence in 2006 and is negotiating accession to the European Union. Montenegro has a population of 622,000 and a GNI per capita of $7,320. It started negotiations with the European Union in June 2012 and strives to
Towards safer and more innovative electronic payments
he Commission has today adopted rules that will make electronic payments in shops and online safer. This will also allow consumers to access more convenient, cost-effective and innovative solutions offered by payment providers. These rules implement the EU's recently-revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) which aims to modernize Europe's payment services
2018 Doing Business: Montenegro (42) advances nine places
Montenegro: Business Stimulating Programs
Montenegro's Ministry of Economy has published Business Stimulating Programs Brochure. The content of brochure includes the following: Decree promoting direct investment Explained Business zones development project Cluster development fostering program in Montenegro The 2017-2020 regional and local competitiveness increasing program through alignment with the requirements of international standards of operations
How The EU Budget Is Spent: Macro-Financial Assistance
ne important European Union objective is to achieve macroeconomic and political stability in its neighborhood by ‘developing a zone of shared stability, security, and prosperity’ through a set of policies that help to bring candidate, potential candidate, and neighborhood countries closer to the EU. One of these policies is macro-financial
Antitrust: Commission fines Google €2.42 billion
he European Commission has fined Google €2.42 billion for breaching EU antitrust rules. Google has abused its market dominance as a search engine by giving an illegal advantage to another Google product, its comparison shopping service. The company must now end the conduct within 90 days or face penalty payments of
2016 Progress Report on Montenegro
Key findings The past year saw the continuation of accession negotiations with the EU. The parliamentary elections of October 2016 were conducted under a substantially revised legal framework and, overall, in a more participatory and transparent manner. In December 2015, Montenegro received an invitation to join NATO, which is an important
Brexit: impact of an EU exit in key UK policy areas
European Parliament: China ’s Market Economy Status Debate
ince the fall of the Soviet Bloc and the opening of transition economies to international trade, a distinction between non-market economies (NMEs) and market economies has been established in international trade law, in particular in the framework of anti-dumping (AD) investigations. In a NME, domestic prices are considered unreliable in