Joaquín Almunia, the European commissioner for competition, has said that EU governments will be allowed to continue providing support to banks and businesses for another year because of the economic situation.

In an interview with the Financial Times today, Almunia said it was not yet possible to return to a “normal” regime, referring to problems in the German and Irish banking sectors. 

He promised a return to the normal rules from 2012 onwards.

The European Commission agreed to ease the conditions for state aid to banks and businesses from September 2008 to offset the effects of the financial crisis, which hit banks hard, and of the subsequent economic crisis. These rules were due to expire at the end of 2010.

 “On present analysis, we are not yet in a position to return to a normal regime. We know there are still some institutions…that need this public support through public capital injections,” Almunia said, referring to Ireland’s difficulties and problems in the German banking sector.

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National governments and MEPs are struggling to reach agreement on legislation aimed at regulating hedge funds and overhauling financial supervision.

The European Commission is urging quick agreement on the proposed laws, saying that they are essential to prevent a repeat of the financial crisis. The Commission fears that the will to strike a deal on the legislation may wane if decisions are delayed beyond the European Parliament’s summer recess, damaging Europe’s credibility in the G20 group of emerging and developed countries.

Representatives of the Spanish government, which holds the rotating presidency of the Council of Ministers, clashed with MEPs at a meeting on Monday (31 May) that was arranged to resolve differences over the proposal for a directive regulating alternative investment fund managers – mainly hedge funds.

Access to external funds

According to officials close to the negotiations, the two sides were at loggerheads over whether national governments should retain responsibility for deciding how much access investors get to funds based outside the EU (such as hedge funds and private equity funds). The Parliament is adamant that access conditions should be regulated at EU level and that national rules and placement schemes should disappear. National governments, however, are unanimously opposed to this suggestion.

The officials said that Jean-Paul Gauzès, a French centre-right MEP and the Parliament’s lead negotiator, told the Spanish that it would be better to have no directive than accept the governments’ position, as it ran counter to the principle of a single market. He has strong support on this point from the Parliament’s Socialist and Green groups.

Single market ‘passport’

MEPs are also at odds with the member states over whether fund managers based outside the EU should be able to apply for a ‘passport’ to operate across the single market. This idea received strong backing from MEPs in a vote in the Parliament’s economic and monetary affairs committee on 17 May, but was excluded by national governments from their version of the proposal, approved on 18 May.

The next meeting between the negotiating teams will take place on 9 June. The two sides are aiming to broker a deal in time for MEPs to vote on the proposal on 6 July, its last plenary session before the summer recess, although this looks increasingly optimistic.

Slow progress

Discussions on other proposals to reform financial supervision are not advancing any faster. Spanish officials and MEPs held a second round of negotiations on the reforms on Tuesday (1 June), but the two sides disagree over whether an EU-level authority should have responsibility for the day-to-day supervision of large banks. Member states are strongly opposed to this step, which Parliament considers essential. The disagreement has prevented the negotiators from tackling other likely sticking-points, including MEPs’ wish to create a pan-European bank resolution fund.

The Parliament planned to vote on the supervisory reforms on 16 June, although it is likely that the vote will have to be moved to July. The next negotiating round is scheduled for 10 June.

Michel Barnier, the European commissioner for the internal market, has called on both governments and Parliament to show “openness and flexibility” in their negotiations. “Time is running out…we cannot afford failure,” he said

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The European Union’s member states are refusing to give the president of the European Council, the president of the European Commission and the foreign policy chief increased powers under the EU’s crisis-management plan.

Nearly eight months after the Lisbon treaty took effect, several national governments are objecting to a proposal that, under the EU’s Crisis Co-ordination Arrangements (CCA), the EU’s most senior figures should be able to trigger crisis procedures in the event of a terrorist attack or a natural disaster.

Under the existing rules, only the country holding the rotating presidency of the Council of Ministers can trigger the crisis mechanism. Member states feared that a proposed revision of the plan would put too much power in the hands of Herman Van Rompuy, the Council president, José Manuel Barroso, the Commission president, and Catherine Ashton, the high representative for foreign and security policy.

The CCA sets out how the EU institutions and member states should co-operate in the event of a calamity such as a terrorist attack, a pandemic or a massive earthquake. It can only be activated if the emergencies “are of such wide-ranging impact or political significance that they require a co-ordinated EU response on a political level”, the introduction to the 2008 crisis manual says.

The CCA was drawn up at the instigation of justice and home affairs ministers in 2004. The manual includes a phonebook of contacts of national and EU-level emergency co-ordinators, public health, policing and military authorities as well as EU agencies.

The first CCA was approved in 2006 and to date has been activated just once, after the terrorist attack in Mumbai, India, of November 2008. France at the time held the EU’s rotating presidency.

The CCA is reviewed regularly and emergency procedures involving both military and civilian tasks are updated. A review of the CCA was started by the Swedish presidency of the Council of Ministers last year and changes were proposed.

Member states are expected to approve an update on Monday (26 July), but diplomats said that they would not include provisions to take account of institutional changes introduced by the Lisbon treaty. Those have been shelved until a later date and a meeting planned for Tuesday (20 July) was “put on hold” to allow member states more time to consider them, said one diplomat following the issue.

“The changes are supposed to be on a technical level. However, it is obvious that this [plan] has clear political implications on who has the right to push the button,” said the diplomat. The envoy added that the changes posed a “conflict of competences” between the rotating presidency and the other EU posts.

The Commission has sided with member states in voicing doubts about including Van Rompuy, Barroso and Ashton, saying the changes are “not feasible” at this time. An official from Van Rompuy’s office said that neither the president nor any of his staff was involved in the revision of the CCA.

Current crisis-management procedures limit the role of the Commission and foreign policy chief to “assisting” the presidency in co-ordinating a crisis response along with the Council’s Joint Situation Centre (SitCen), which monitors global events around the clock and pools EU intelligence. The SitCen is to become part of Ashton’s European External Action Service (EEAS) when it is set up at the end of the year.

The CCA, as it will be updated on Monday, will not take account of the EEAS, nor of the Lisbon treaty’s solidarity clause, which calls on member states to “act jointly” if one falls victim to a terrorist attack or a natural disaster.

An EU official said decisions to include the senior EU officials would be put off for now, adding that the revised CCA manual would be tested during an exercise in September.

Elmar Brok, a German centre-right MEP and a former chairman of the Parliament’s foreign affairs committee, who was a member of the EU’s constitutional convention, said that not allowing Ashton or Barroso a bigger role in crisis management was “simply ridiculous”, particularly since the Lisbon treaty had been in force since December. But he said that Van Rompuy should not be given powers to trigger the CCA “because he does not head an operative agency”.

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Traditionally limited to periods of study at foreign universities, the EU’s Erasmus scheme was expanded to allow work-experience placements in 2007. The latest figures, released by the European Commission in June, show that the number of students seizing on the opportunity is growing rapidly.  

In 2008-09, 30,400 students took up Erasmus placements, up more than 50% on the previous year. Traditional study visits were made by 168,200 students, an increase of just 3.4%.

In many cases, the logic of a work-experience placement is easy to follow. Engineering students go to work in an engineering firm, or those studying travel and tourism work in foreign hotels. It is less easy to see why so many students are spending their overseas placements in the education sector.

Indeed, with 4,312 placements in 2008-09, education is the most popular sector, slightly ahead of placements in companies pursuing professional, scientific and technical activities. According to the Commission, this covers student teachers going to work in foreign schools. But that would mean that Erasmus is duplicating the work of the Comenius programme for schools.

Looking beneath the Erasmus figures reveals that these educational placements are playing a different role, providing teaching opportunities for students who are not specifically on teacher-training courses.

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For example, the University of Wroclaw is sending students studying Polish abroad for experience teaching Polish as a foreign language. “It’s the perfect training for them,” says Alicja Meisel, who manages Erasmus placements at the university. Most go to universities in Latvia. “They teach Latvian students whose native language is not Polish, so they can already see what sort of problems they have to deal with in the future.”

While the opportunities for teaching Polish might seem limited, Meisel sees scope for more of these placements. “We have good collaborations across eastern Europe and we know that there are Polish-language institutes in universities, and also some smaller institutes, in western Europe,” she says. Some Wroclaw students have already had placements teaching Polish in Germany and France.

Until Erasmus opened up to placements, work experience was not usual for students at Wroclaw. “Our students really appreciate it,” Meisel says.

In contrast, work placements have long been a feature of degrees at the University of Limerick. Patrice Twomey, who manages the international side of its placement programme, can see why so many students are seeking teaching experience. “In the European context, humanities students are often the poor relations for work placements,” she says. “They don’t get the same chances as engineering and science students, or those on business studies.”

Limerick students taking up the opportunity tend to be those who have yet to settle on teaching as a career. “They are generally arts students who may have an interest in working as a teacher when they graduate, or maybe working in the broader area of education and training,” Twomey says.

Education placements are also open to a broader range of students. “Some of them might be students who don’t have a foreign language but who want to work abroad on the Erasmus scheme. English is their passport to that, working as English-language teachers.”

Transferable skills

Even if they do not have an eye on teaching as a career, the transferable skills they gain – from teamwork to communication – are highly valued on the graduate job market. “This placement is a formal element of their degree programme, and there are few academic modules that would contribute to skills development to the extent that a work placement does,” says Twomey.

Similar arguments are advanced in the UK, where Erasmus is used to fund placements for language students organised by the British Council. “It gives you professional work experience, and that’s extremely valuable on the job market,” says Howard White, director of studies at the University of Bath’s department of European studies and modern languages. “You develop all sorts of skills as a teacher that you wouldn’t necessarily develop under other circumstances.”

Ian Mundell is a freelance journalist based in Brussels.

The Juventus star confirmed he suffered with strong symptoms of coronavirus, but is now on the mend

Paulo Dybala is feeling “much better” after experiencing strong symptoms of coronavirus over the past week.

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Dybala confirmed on March 21 that he and his girlfriend Oriana Sabatini had tested positive for the virus, which has caused the postponement of sport across the globe.

The Argentine international said that both he and Sabatini were feeling fine, though – in a video call posted to Juve’s official Twitter account – Dybala has revealed he subsequently came down with strong symptoms.