(European Council, Brussels, 24 June 2020) The EU is temporarily relaxing banking rules in order to maximise the capacity of banks to lend money and support households and businesses to recover from the COVID-19 crisis. The banking package adopted today provides targeted and exceptional...
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2020/06/29
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, European Union, Human Rights, OECD, Transparency
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2020/06/29
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, European Union, Human Rights, OECD, Transparency
(ECA-Watch, Amsterdam, 29 June 2020) As part of continued advocacy with the European institutions on Export Credit Agencies (ECAs), European groups are working to enhance the reporting requirements of the EU ECAs under EU...
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2020/05/30
Country: Belgium
Issue: European Union
(Europa, Brussels, 18 May 2020) The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, a €903 million Belgian reinsurance scheme to support the trade credit insurance market in the context of the coronavirus outbreak. Trade credit insurance protects companies supplying goods and...
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2020/05/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Aircraft, Common Approaches, European Union, OECD
Member: Global Witness
(Lexology, London, 30 April 2020) While businesses lobby governments for support, there have been suggestions that ECAs may need to step up to fill a reduced commercial debt capacity for aircraft. During the 2008-2009 global financial crisis, European ECAs financed up to a third of annual...
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2020/05/30
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, European Union, OECD, Transparency
(ECA Watch, Ottawa, 30 May 2020) This month's news is dominated by vast amounts of export credit funding approved to shore up companies facing an international collapse of consumption, production and trade resulting from the world-wide COVID-19 pandemic. How much government support is going to...
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2020/04/30
Issue: European Union, OECD
(Euroactive Foundation, Brussels, 16 April 2020) [An argument for European coordination of export credit. To bolster competition from China?] Over the last decade, public export credit insurance has become one of the major instruments of trade policy, used to support and encourage...
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2020/04/30
Country: China, Germany, Turkey, United Kingdom
Issue: Debt, European Union
(The Asset, 22 April 2020) European Union rules on state aid to private sector companies, including short term export credits, have been suspended until December as national governments step up financial packages to rescue their corporations. A recent report notes that the Covid-19 crisis has...
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2020/04/30
Issue: Debt, European Union
(Mondaq, London, 6 April 2020) On 19 March 2020, the European Commission adopted a Temporary Framework to enable EU Member States to use European State aid rules to support the European economy in the COVID-19 crisis. The first programs have already been approved in Denmark, Germany, France,...
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2020/04/29
Country: France, Germany, Spain, United Kingdom
ECAs: COFACE, Compañía Española de Seguros de Crédito a la Exportación, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Debt, European Union
2020/03/31
Issue: European Union, G20, OECD
(ECA Watch, Ottawa, 30 March 2020) Our "export credit" online alerts this month are flooded with news of coronavirus pandemic generated government subsidies for business (and some for workers), including special export credit increases. Here are but a few links by country:...
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2020/03/31
Issue: Climate Change, European Union, Renewables
(ReNews, Winchester, 10 March 2020) The European Commission has presented a new Industrial Strategy to help Europe achieve its goal of climate neutrality by 2050, while maintaining European industry's global competitiveness. These include comprehensive measures to modernise and decarbonise...
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2020/03/29
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Arms Trade, European Union
(Jane's, London, 11 March 2020) The UK government is proposing to create a GBP1 billion (USD1.3 billion) fund to support British defence and security exports. The “facility” would be overseen by UK Export Finance, the country’s export credit agency, which gives loans to help foreign countries,...
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2020/03/29
Issue: European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(National Law Review, Western Springs IL, 26 March 2020) On 19 March 2020, the European Commission adopted a temporary framework for State aid to support the economy amidst the consequences of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The temporary framework provides for five types of aid, including...
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2019/12/30
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, European Union, Oil, Gas and Mining
(European Parliament, Brussels, 28 November 2019) The European Parliament resolution of 28 November 2019 on the 2019 UN Climate Change Conference in Madrid stresses that the EU’s budget should be consistent with its international commitments on sustainable development and its mid- and long-term...
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