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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12080
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ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / Payments

Eva Maydell unveils her plans to ensure the transparency of payments subject to currency conversion

With the Council having adopted its position in record time in June of this year (see EUROPE 12050), over at the European Parliament, rapporteur Eva Maydell (EPP, Bulgaria) unveiled her draft report at the end of July on the proposal to harmonise the costs of cross-border payments in euros across the EU (see EUROPE 11991).

Readers may recall that one of the aims of the regulation is to ensure the full transparency of currency conversion - an aim she fully supports, but for which she has an...

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PAYMENTS: Eva Maydell unveils her plans to ensure the transparency of payments subject to currency conversion
INSURANCE: Bulgarian insurance sector plunged into turmoil with insolvency of Cypriot company Olympic
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